Lockdown, FOOD SHORTAGES Leave Shanghai Residents STUCK & Scrambling To Find Next Meal

NYU Shanghai professor, Rodrigo Zeidan, details his experience with the city's Covid-19 lockdown and ongoing food shortages.

FILE - A delivery man passes by barriers set up to lock down a community in Shanghai, China, on March 30, 2022. Residents of Shanghai are struggling to get meat, rice and other food supplies under anti-coronavirus controls that confine most of its 25 million people in their homes, fueling frustration as the government tries to contain a spreading outbreak.(AP Photo/Chen Si, File)

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[greenmanalishi]

I feel bad for all the kids growing up these days

[MrMajikman]

0% covid is not a viable strategy, however, 100% control and compliance is...🤦‍♂️

[ngeowhoiwan]

People who lives in the higher class areas doesn't have much problem in terms of move abouts, food and other necessities. Pity those lower and mid incomer areas when it's stricter controls are imposed; difficulties in getting food or going out. The scariest part is when a person is tested positive and that's when they get transferred to the isolation center. Then they'll experience things that's unbelievable difficult!

[mobiusraptor]

Americans: "That's so horrible. China is wrong!"

Also Americans: "I'D LIKE A 5TH LOCKDOWN AND MY 50TH MANDATORY BOOSTER PLEASE!!!"

[syruptishuss]

Watching for “The Shanghai Diet” to appear on The NY Times bestseller list….

[praisebgod]

And a member of the elite gives us his perspective as that of "the people's". Smh!
The Hill can we please get a more realistic view from the regular members of the Chinese society who don't have the security buffer of wealth?

[KingBlack]

They're coming for him, no food anymore for him

[joeschmo]

Was his first point that they DID get enough food but they NEEDED variety?
And later they arent “that locked down” people are self isolating…….
I hate mandates but this seems propoganday

[warrenbuffet]

Covid was the appetizer the main course is about to be served

[sianstpaul]

Forced lockdown vs self-imposed isolation; shortage of food vs access to the variety of food.

[SadisticPicker]

Why is everything wrapped in plastic behind the professor?

[stonerubber]

"They made me wrap my books in plastic."

[TPayne-qyok]

It's important for people to live on farms and get out of the cities. Communist have taken control of all cities.

[AshGreen]

It's the future of America. The empty shelves are coming

[jodihouts]

I'm listening to Thomas Sowell's "Basic Economics", and this is just reinforcement of how correct he is on why capitalism works, and why communism/socialism does not. I think it's chapter 3 when he discusses how the problem of scarcity has more to do with logistics than with the wealth distribution. I love it when book knowledge and reality colide.

[terencekwong]

Interesting interview, China's Zero COVID strategy was working for 2 years prior to omicron and citizens are allowed to protest to keep Gov't in check. That's very different from what we're told in the West.

[blargh]

The Hill should have interviewed a blue collar worker. This "high end" guest's perception is from a wealthy bubble.

[chuckrogers]

9:01 - He talks about how local governments "didn't plan properly" and then I love the talk about "tiny mistakes... administrative mistakes"...

[FatBoy]

here's the best part we know more about what's going on in shanghai than some one in Beijing.
I also in no way feel bad for the nyc professor he choose to stay in a country where we knew they were welding people into apartments during the pandemic. If you choose to live in a totalitarians dictatorship I refuse to feel bad for you.

[Ashley--L]

I don't think this interview was newsworthy... The amount of food for 16 days and the neighbor part was a hint of what's really going on. I am guessing you weren't allowed to ask for more info...?