Doesn’t specify the specific reason other than “the Shanghai lockdowns were the final straw”
Funniest shit ever. I wonder if part of the reason for the strict lockdowns is to make yankees leave the country
liberals don't like that china is actually trying to get rid of covid
It's hard to pretend something isn't a problem when the CIA is trying to paint China as a crazy authoritarian state drunk on their own power because they're doing Outbreak cosplay.
Yet another example of business and intelligence interest infighting that results in invalidating both messages.
I have two coworkers who were in Vegas last week. They are currently both OOO with a mysterious illness that may or may not be the current COVID variant.
Incidentally, Macau - the Vegas of China - has entered a new round of lockdowns because of a hotbed of 1,300 cases.
"leaving it out of step with the rest of the world, who are doing just awesome right now by the way. cough"
There was a similar pro COVID propaganda article on /r/coronavirus https://theconversation.com/many-people-are-still-shielding-from-covid-and-our-research-suggests-their-mental-health-is-getting-worse-186287
YES THEIR MENTAL HEALTH IS GETTING WORSE BECAUSE THEY HAVE REALIZED THIS GODFORESAKEN SYSTEM HAS NOT ONLY ABANDONED THEM BUT THROWN THEM IN THE GRISTMILLS BECAUSE TREATS MUST FLOW AND STONKS MUST GO UP
Being an American means knowing that your neighbor would kill you to keep McDonald's open
Either because they're too stupid to understand or too misanthropic to care
It can't be both at the same time. If they don't understand the problem then their misanthropy doesn't factor in, and if they do then they aren't ignorant.
"Stop hitting yourself! Stop hitting yourself!" but as public health policy.
Or kill someone you live with, or suffer debilitating symptoms for months to years or until you die, or get brain damage repeatedly every year, or...
- Is scmp shit?
- These people are gonna be dead of covid related ailments in ten years.
But they still have good takes that arent allowed in American MSM. I have no idea what's going on there. I guess da see see pee isn't good at censorship, at least not as good as the CIA.
That's why I was wondering. I've seen them post good shit, but this is obvious anti-covid zero mongering.
They pretty liberal, but they don't have the same American brainworms so sometimes they can say acceptable things
It's depend, honestly. Sometimes they put out the west propaganda while others they shite on the west. They post both side, since Alibaba own them after all, gotta make it balance.
Love how her interaction with the community seemed to be limited to "the delivery guy" and "they guy that hands me my dumplings" who she couldn't even name.
I've heard that a lot of the resentment is against the Shanghai government for not being able to get it's shit together while the rest of China coped pretty well. Is there any truth to that?
Pretty much, I'm still not sure if they necessarily did anything incorrectly with regards to monitoring cases and contact tracing and all that. They had a runaway increase in infections and decided to do Dec 2019/Jan 2020 Wuhan-style lockdowns in Shanghai basically. I never got much detail about if the building where my family lived was physically blocked off at the entrance but I saw plenty of images of that on WeChat. There was also a lot of weird videos around that time, I remember my partner showing me a video of some naked woman climbing around on electrical wiring and shit while people in their apartments were yelling at her.
Shanghai is pretty walkable for the most part, though it's becoming a bit car infested and individualistic (kind of fulfilling the joke that it's PRC's NYC). So it's pretty hard on people to get literally locked up in their buildings. Even in NYC, the most that happened were suspending large public gatherings, no eating indoors, masks, etc but people could still walk around and leave the city pretty easily. Which is why infections and deaths kept shooting up, but that was pre-Omicron, pre-vaccine, pre-everybody getting infected with Omicron and developing some neoplasm antibodies because the vaccines target an old protein that's mutated. I feel like China really dodged the bullet on the deadly strains like Alpha and Delta and won the opportunity to be less cautious with Omicron without much risk, but they're still playing it incredibly safe.
I feel like Shanghai could've figured out how to administrate some time for people to get out and about considering they did in the last few weeks of the lockdowns. If they do any mass lockdowns again, I really hope they figure out how to facilitate that, just for the mental health of everyone there.
the strains circulating are as mild as they are
Hey - and I mean this from the bottom of my cold black heart - you have absolutely no fucking idea what you're talking about - and I sincerely hope that your statement here, most of which could not possibly be made in good faith, haunts your last minutes on this earth.
:grillman: doesn't care about that. It's about restricted access to the treats.
Shidding, farding and crying because China wouldn't let me eat at my favorite restaurants!!!
So so sad. 2 months of lockdowns so millions don't catch the plague. So so sad.
