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Farmer-Rick

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39. Oh I agree 2 weeks is hardship but not starvation

Tue Apr 12, 2022, 05:21 PM

Apr 2022

Yeah 3 weeks could be a killer.

But is China really going to let these folks starve?

If they do, Wow, lack of food is one of the biggest reason for revolutions. The political leadership is stupid if they let this happen.

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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