Lots of videos popped up on reddit today of people being fed up with lockdowns in major Chinese cities again. The translations seem accurate from my (very) limited knowledge of Chinese, does anyone have any news/know what’s going on on the ground? Some posts I’ve seen on the front page I’m referencing here and here. I’d ask on /r/sino, but my reddit accounts are all perma-banned.
My aunt, grandfather, and other relatives live in Shenzhen. Just a few days ago their apartment complex got quarantined due to a covid case. No one can get in or out and my aunt actually got separated from the rest of the household because of it, she’s sleeping at her workplace, which has beds and accommodations.
Is it perfect? No. It’s very stressful for the people affected. There have been issues with people running out of food because they can’t go out and buy more, even a few cases of people who were sick with other conditions dying because they couldn’t get treatment, which raised pretty major controversy in China. Unsure exactly how common these issues are though. It could be a major problem or just a few freak cases, I haven’t really found data on it.
Last I heard they’re trying things like autonomous delivery robots that traverse quarantine zones in a number of efforts to address these problems.
This is my opinion, which, I don’t live there and have never experienced it so make of it what you will, but while the strict and aggressive quarantine system in China definitely has its issues, it’s way better than the West’s do-nothing approach, especially in the long run. This part isn’t opinion though: this practice has almost certainly saved far more lives from covid than it has negatively affected or in some cases killed, especially considering just how fast covid spreads if unmitigated in cities as dense as in China.
From some of the info from social media and family/friends who are currently there, the number of cases skyrocketed and the local authorities were too overconfident and slow to react… like with the field hospitals only beginning to be built when things already started going south.
There were cases of people not having enough food delivered and starving, with others not being able to afford rent and other expenses due to not being able to work. As such there have been a few people who have already committed suicide due to amount of stress.
The man in the 1st video is saying that people are worried and unclear how long the current conditions/lockdown will continue, and if there is no clear communication then things will get extremely bad. The man in the 2nd video for example mentioned his grandmother living alone and no one able to take care of her, leading to that outburst.
Not too sure about the latest updates but the central government has stepped in and sent in medical staff from other regions to help. They’ll probably have to take over where the local government failed so we’ll have to see how these efforts pan out as the situation is still very tense…
Western media are in likely in anticipation of a major disaster so they can then celebrate how their ‘model is superior’, despite ignoring that Shanghai is one of the most westernised and liberalised cities in the country… likely not a coincidence as it was disastrous in HK as well…
Here’s a few threads from Reddit with some input from other commenters: https://www.reddit.com/r/GenZedong/comments/tzgsmv/this_is_what_i_recently_learned_from_the/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Sino/comments/u03grc/robot_dog_during_shanghai_lockdown/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Sino/comments/tvubkc/over_20000_medics_arrive_to_help_shanghai/
Here’s to hoping things get organized fast, the situation seems dire.
Reddit in a nutshell. China celebrated doctors for their service, no one gives a fuck. People in Shanghai complain about the quarantine and all the eyes are on Shanghai.
Fuck reddit and death to those propaganda assholes and npcs.
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[https://lemmygrad.ml/post/179167](had a conversation here on the situation two weeks ago)
Long story short Shanghai is led by liberals who fancy themselves an “international” city and thinks they know better than the rest of the country. The shitlibs and those who worship the west refused to do what the rest of the country did for the last two years, and were trying to adopt coexistence measures that are more like the west. As a result they brought the worst outbreak in China since Wuhan, aka becoming more like the west.
I assure you the “draconian” measures worked quite well in the rest of the country ensuring zero-covid success for the last two years. 99.99% of the people had total freedom while the 0.01% goes into temporary non-negotiable lockdowns and were fully accommodated and cared for the entire duration, really not much sweat at all when the government works for the people. Why else have you heard absolutely nothing about the (lack of) covid situation for China in western media during the last two years?
None of that is happening for Shanghai. The rest of the country are being affected negatively in the short-term but it’s even more of a lesson on what not to do, so in the grand scheme of things this episode only going to make China stronger. The copioids at reddit can grasp at the straws all they like.
Btw I’m not expecting anything nuts, there’s always something on the front page of reddit about how China does xyz bad or is doing everything amerikkka’s actually doing, I’m just curious if anyone can be a first person source for what it’s like over there
There’s some info in this YouTube channel. They speak Spanish but it also have subtitles.
