Domestic Violence

In the two months shanghai was under lockdown, the group i volunteer with received over ten requests for help from victims of domestic violence. One of them came from a woman in her fifties who was being beaten by her ex husband. She called the pol but they told her they couldn't come because of coved 19 restrictions. The quarantine rules would make no exceptions. Finally, she ran out into her compound garden. It was cold and rainy, but she told me she felt safer in the elements than with her x.