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originally posted by: kwakakev
The story I am getting here is that Shanghai has implemented a 'Zero Covid' policy. The city has been separated and sealed off into districts and regions. As for what happens to those people shipped out? Crowded conditions with less resources and support than the bungled and inadequate resource distribution in the city I guess?
The area commanders are in a race to become the first to declare zero covid and rise in CCP status. There is some rough play going on and many things getting missed with this strict direction. How unrealistically stupid this plan is a start. Even if this could be achieved, just how long will it last? Is Shanghai just going to seal itself from the rest of the world forever?
With official population of Shanghai at around 25M, some estimate the unofficial population is closer to 35M. Could this lockdown be more about targeting the unofficial population? Maybe it is just about population reduction in general?
It is getting onto a month since this lockdown began. Lot of people running out of food and other important things, which gets a lot more dangerous than covid. Whatever it is exactly that motives the people pushing this agenda, covid makes a convenient excuse. How far can the government go until the people push back? Will they be too divided to be effective?
Famine does have a reputation of toppling governments.
originally posted by: Sabretoothrabbit
Crazy people. But so are people here. I hear people saying they can't believe this is happening to those poor people and how can they allow it, meanwhile some people locked themselves away when they were told they had to so what's the diff? I didn't see a lot of people here pushing back. Still don't. was at the beach yesterday and saw a woman wearing a mask and a face shield still.
Here’s the latest news from the pandemic.
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Shanghai’s latest indignity
It started, as many things do in China, in a group chat.
Residents living in the same housing compounds, all of whom have been locked down in their homes for weeks now in Shanghai as the city battles its worst virus outbreak ever, started to ask in group chats this week if others had fallen ill after eating government food rations.
One after another, people across several neighborhoods in the eastern half of the city reported that they had suffered diarrhea and stomach pains after consuming items like braised duck and meatballs sent out by local officials to alleviate food shortages.
Soon, the topic became a top-trending item on China’s Twitter-like Weibo platform, fueled by furious Shanghai residents who’ve endured weeks of confinement with no regular access to food or basic medical care. Neighborhood committees issued notices for residents to throw out the food items, while district officials opened a probe into the care packages.
originally posted by: Sabretoothrabbit
a reply to: putnam6
Ya I know there's that difference so it's even crazier that people locked down and acted like there were fences keeping them in even though there weren't. no worries, I build enough of my own fences and covid deaths? no idea, I don't believe the #'s are real.
LOL even Fauci knows Zero Covid policy is impossible.