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Farmer-Rick

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26. What definition of short of food did I give?

Tue Apr 12, 2022, 03:23 PM

Apr 2022

I was just commenting on how quickly this city moved into starvation.

I don't trust the information because of that. I question it.

Questioning is good.

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A modern city starves [View all] brooklynite Apr 2022 OP

Shanghai residents went the full Howard Beale a few nights ago. Efilroft Sul Apr 2022 #1

That looks like either Xuhui district or Puxi District AZLD4Candidate Apr 2022 #32

Thank you for your insight! Efilroft Sul Apr 2022 #35

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

See post #17 AZLD4Candidate Apr 2022 #18

So, starvation sets in after only 2 weeks? Farmer-Rick Apr 2022 #3

"Starve" does not equate to "starve to death" brooklynite Apr 2022 #4

Careful about projecting. All American cities are "short of food" by your definition Bernardo de La Paz Apr 2022 #10

What definition of short of food did I give? Farmer-Rick Apr 2022 #26

Agree. By far most are not starving. There isn't time. They are unaccustomed to Hortensis Apr 2022 #33

This is an assumption that everyone is like you. colorado_ufo Apr 2022 #15

Women are until major social and cultural pressure to be 115 lbs or less AZLD4Candidate Apr 2022 #20

No it's not Farmer-Rick Apr 2022 #28

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

Spoken like someone who has never AZLD4Candidate Apr 2022 #16

Ok, you are very funny Farmer-Rick Apr 2022 #27

Tell me what you know about the country or its people then AZLD4Candidate Apr 2022 #30

The rule of 3 NickB79 Apr 2022 #38

Oh I agree 2 weeks is hardship but not starvation Farmer-Rick Apr 2022 #39

Surprise, rich afford delivered vegs; no luck for poor & middle class. Communism or dictatorship? Bernardo de La Paz Apr 2022 #5

Communism is a form a dicatorship takes. nycbos Apr 2022 #7

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

Okay your post was unclear. nycbos Apr 2022 #12

60 years ago. The Chinese people remember Bernardo de La Paz Apr 2022 #6

Do they though? nycbos Apr 2022 #9

China doesn't have an effective vaccine.... Jetheels Apr 2022 #8

But the Chinese people are convinced their vaccine is better than everybody else's AZLD4Candidate Apr 2022 #19

I have many colleagues there right now Johnny2X2X Apr 2022 #13

Businesses get first everything due to greasing palms and Party connections AZLD4Candidate Apr 2022 #36

Restrictions were necessary in the beginning when there was no vaccine Warpy Apr 2022 #14

From my wife: AZLD4Candidate Apr 2022 #17

Looks like Xi is taking the excuse to try to rehang the Bamboo Curtain Warpy Apr 2022 #23

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

I do not wish ill on John and Jane Q Chinese citizen DonCoquixote Apr 2022 #40

This is some real dystopian shit going on hueymahl Apr 2022 #41