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Showing Original Post only (View all)A modern city starves [View all]
Source: Axios
Many of Shanghai's 26 million residents are facing food shortages as the Chinese government's strict COVID lockdowns have ground one of biggest and busiest cities in the world to a halt.
Why it matters: Scenes of residents rationing vegetables and begging local officials to allow them to search for food has cast a shadow on the Chinese government's COVID response.
State of play: Shanghai reported more than 26,000 new infections on Sunday, as the number of new daily infections continues to rise despite the city's lockdown, which has lasted more than two weeks.
What's happening: Shanghai residents across the city are scrambling for food, as empty grocery shelves, unreliable government provisions, and strained food delivery services make it hard to secure enough to eat.
Why it matters: Scenes of residents rationing vegetables and begging local officials to allow them to search for food has cast a shadow on the Chinese government's COVID response.
State of play: Shanghai reported more than 26,000 new infections on Sunday, as the number of new daily infections continues to rise despite the city's lockdown, which has lasted more than two weeks.
What's happening: Shanghai residents across the city are scrambling for food, as empty grocery shelves, unreliable government provisions, and strained food delivery services make it hard to secure enough to eat.
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As if the world doesn't have enough tragedy. I can't see how this is going to end for China. The
Evolve Dammit
Apr 2022
#2
Careful about projecting. All American cities are "short of food" by your definition
Bernardo de La Paz
Apr 2022
#10
Agree. By far most are not starving. There isn't time. They are unaccustomed to
Hortensis
Apr 2022
#33
Women are until major social and cultural pressure to be 115 lbs or less
AZLD4Candidate
Apr 2022
#20
Many reports saying no one is allowed out of their apartments to buy food
womanofthehills
Apr 2022
#29
That is true. Most streets are empty and the city looks like a ghost town
AZLD4Candidate
Apr 2022
#31
Yea that's draconian if they can't even go to the supermarkets to buy groceries.
onetexan
Apr 2022
#37
Surprise, rich afford delivered vegs; no luck for poor & middle class. Communism or dictatorship?
Bernardo de La Paz
Apr 2022
#5
That's my point "China is hardly a communist country now though. It's just a grotesque dicatorhsip."
Bernardo de La Paz
Apr 2022
#11
But the Chinese people are convinced their vaccine is better than everybody else's
AZLD4Candidate
Apr 2022
#19
Businesses get first everything due to greasing palms and Party connections
AZLD4Candidate
Apr 2022
#36
Xi, with this illogically extreme policy of having zero cases, is bankrupting the country
AZLD4Candidate
Apr 2022
#34
At this stage of the pandemic, I don't see the benefit of China's "zero covid" policy.
marmar
Apr 2022
#21
China is years behind on the pandemic. Their vaccines are not like what we have in the west.
Jetheels
Apr 2022
#22
As I say to my wife all the time: There's the right way, the wrong, and the dumbass
AZLD4Candidate
Apr 2022
#24
Pragmatism died when Deng Xiaoping left office. Dogma and ideological purity are the way now.
AZLD4Candidate
Apr 2022
#25