An increasingly large percentage of new developments are coming from China and in particular from Shanghai. It seems sensible to post them on their own rather than waiting for Thursday. When they locked down Shanghai by halves, it meant they did not have the resources to lock down Shanghai.
Weird shade-throwing from the "Westerners all eat pre-processed long shelf life food all the time" lady. Just because I have enough food in my kitchen (which is admittedly bigger than many Shanghai apartments) to last a few weeks doesn't mean I'm subsisting on TV dinners and spam; even if I did then I'm not sure it would be any less healthy than a diet of Chinese takeaway.
As for "what happens next", can't the Chinese government just start making up numbers? Shanghai numbers plummet to zero within a week, everybody goes back to work, all covid tests start coming back negative. Lots of people die of a particularly nasty cold but it's definitely Not Covid. Everybody knows it's bullshit and nobody dares say so and life goes on in China as normal.
TBH no food for 4 days is very far away from actual starvation.
Weird shade-throwing from the "Westerners all eat pre-processed long shelf life food all the time" lady. Just because I have enough food in my kitchen (which is admittedly bigger than many Shanghai apartments) to last a few weeks doesn't mean I'm subsisting on TV dinners and spam; even if I did then I'm not sure it would be any less healthy than a diet of Chinese takeaway.
As for "what happens next", can't the Chinese government just start making up numbers? Shanghai numbers plummet to zero within a week, everybody goes back to work, all covid tests start coming back negative. Lots of people die of a particularly nasty cold but it's definitely Not Covid. Everybody knows it's bullshit and nobody dares say so and life goes on in China as normal.