We've had similar freakouts where I live. Our departments government is leftist and has actually taken the pandemic seriously. But the strictness has also caused people to get violent because of the ungodly heat. It isn't an easy situation and the government can only do so much to sustain us. I'm sure China is facing something similar, and it's even harder with how densely populated Shanghai is.
The comments themselves aren't as annoying. You have to scroll further down for the typical Reddit garbage. There's even pushback to some of the more unhinged nonsense.
Edit: So I looked more into it. A similar claim was made in 2020 with Wuhan. It was claimed that people were screaming and begging for help when in reality they were cheering each other on and giving slogans for support. Of course Reddit eats it up and uses it to justify their bias towards China. Western hubris really will be their downfall.
People were singing and playing music out the windows first time around, same thing happened a few countries. A few screamers happen but people are just acting up because it's a weird situation and they know they can. Redditors will spin that any way they want though and completely forget how it was in the first waves when our governments were doing the same thing, now that it's just China they'll completely pretend none of that happened in western countries at all. I literally remember screamers in western cities.
My city had an anti-lockdown protest yesterday and Germany even axed mask mandates last week except for public transit and medical facilities. Cranks being cranks is not indicative of any mishandling of any situation. And don’t want to downplay the mishandling of the Omicron-wave by Shanghai authorities, just that this extrapolating from very little information to an absurd degree.
We've had similar freakouts where I live. Our departments government is leftist and has actually taken the pandemic seriously. But the strictness has also caused people to get violent because of the ungodly heat. It isn't an easy situation and the government can only do so much to sustain us. I'm sure China is facing something similar, and it's even harder with how densely populated Shanghai is.
The comments themselves aren't as annoying. You have to scroll further down for the typical Reddit garbage. There's even pushback to some of the more unhinged nonsense.
Edit: So I looked more into it. A similar claim was made in 2020 with Wuhan. It was claimed that people were screaming and begging for help when in reality they were cheering each other on and giving slogans for support. Of course Reddit eats it up and uses it to justify their bias towards China. Western hubris really will be their downfall.
People were singing and playing music out the windows first time around, same thing happened a few countries. A few screamers happen but people are just acting up because it's a weird situation and they know they can. Redditors will spin that any way they want though and completely forget how it was in the first waves when our governments were doing the same thing, now that it's just China they'll completely pretend none of that happened in western countries at all. I literally remember screamers in western cities.
My city had an anti-lockdown protest yesterday and Germany even axed mask mandates last week except for public transit and medical facilities. Cranks being cranks is not indicative of any mishandling of any situation. And don’t want to downplay the mishandling of the Omicron-wave by Shanghai authorities, just that this extrapolating from very little information to an absurd degree.