I’m mainly looking for stuff about how people are supported (or not) during lockdowns and quarantine, etc. Anything I search about Chinese Covid lockdowns just comes up with a barrage of western propaganda. For instance I remember hearing much earlier in the pandemic that food was being distributed to people door to door in apartment blocks that were locked down and stuff.
Where I live the government just announced an end to isolating for people who test positive, and workers who aren’t entitled to sick leave will have to choose between staying home without pay or coming to work to infect other people :agony-deep: so I wanted some sources to throw at libs, along the lines of “the media says China’s lockdown is so draconian but at least they’re not forcing people to choose between starving and being a super spreader”.
I've only got anecdotes. My fiancee's son and daughter-in-law were in Shanghai for its entire lockdown. They couldn't leave their apartment building for weeks at a time, but always had food supplied. They're in a fairly ritzy part of town all things considered, I don't really know how the decisions were made but they always had some kind of fruit & veg, and of course rice.
Toward the end they were able to walk around outside for a bit each day, I feel like that could've been coordinated throughout the lockdown since it was clearly done per building and then later in groups of buildings. Luckily their son was across the bay in Chongming which didn't lockdown at all.