hear well please

[GoodTaste]

Background: Urumqi, China sees about 300 new cases of Covid-19 this week, and draconian measures are again put in place for residents there to contain the spread of the coronavirus (like the doors of their houses are shut and sealed). Governmental workers tell them by loudspeakers:

Dear residents, hear well please:

Stay in bed for the health of yours and mine,
Better gain weight inside than roam outside.
We'll break your legs if you dare go out,
And break your teeth if you dare talk back.
Let us trust in the party* and in the science,
which will ensure the annihilation of the virus.

*CPC, the governing party.

The question here is whether "hear well please" sounds natural in English today.


Source: My English writing practice. The original is in Chinese and from Chinese version of TikTok.

 

[GoodTaste]

Just "Please listen/hear"?

 

[emsr2d2]

Does the government really openly threaten to break people's legs if they go out?

 

[PeterCW]

Does the government really openly threaten to break people's legs if they go out?

I had assumed that it was satire rather than a real announcement, especially considering the racial and religious tensions in the part of China in question.

 

[GoodTaste]

Does the government really openly threaten to break people's legs if they go out?

No. That Is the way of speaking by community or village-level officials doing work: rude yet effective.

 

[tedmc]

That was how the virus was successfully contained.

Hear well please - listen up

In Chinese, hear and listen are the same character