>>169956
Who cares. Shanghai people are not suffering. The thing you gotta understand is that most of China harbors some level of resentment towards Shanghai. The city is negatively stereotyped as arrogant, rich, western-facing Chinese who think the rest of the country are hicks, and this event is just proving that stereotype. People see this kind of thing and remember similar scenes from Wuhan, who actually suffered and dealt with serious mental stress, and so they have little empathy for Shanghaiers crying and shitting themselves because they aren't getting enough fresh leafy greens. This whole thing is perceived through this reductive lens, and Shanghai's failure is suspected as being a result of intentional sabotage of zero covid because they want a western covid policy, and took lax measures and slow rolled their response because they wanted to fail. Now the whole country is dealing with their failure.