• alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml
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      6 hours ago

      It’s crazy that they protested to allow covid, instead of to make Shanghai comply with zero covid and stop incubating and reinfecting the rest of the country.

      Taken from another post:

      Covid cases from March-April 2022.

      Blue line: Shanghai, orange line: Shenzhen

      Shanghai: population 24.87M, density ~4000/sqkm, Western-style lockdown

      Shenzhen: population 17.56M, density ~7000/sqkm, Zero Covid lockdown

      By December 2022, the entire national Zero Covid policy had to be abandoned. Because one city refused to comply with the national policy.

      • Semjaza@lemmynsfw.com
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        5 hours ago

        Where’s your source for Shanghai not being under a strict lockdown?

        The COVID lockdown was ended after two nights of protests in response to a towerblock in Umruqi burning down while locked shut to keep people and no one could get it opened up in time.

        That was not the first case of a sealed building burning, and very shortly after the Guizhou bus crash with no survivors carrying people to a quarantine site late at night.