Chicom lockdowns lead to food shortages

 Hot Air:

Last week I wrote about the relatively small outbreak in China that led to the complete lockdown of a city of 13 million people. Apparently the cases that occurred in Xi’an all involved the delta variant but for some reason China seems to be struggling a bit to get this outbreak under control. There are multiple reports today that as the number of cases continues to climb, some residents are now worried about running out of food.

Xi’an rolled out city-wide testing and placed its 13 million residents under a strict lockdown last week, closing schools, public venues and transportation except essential services like supermarkets and hospitals. Residents were banned from leaving their homes except for urgent reasons such as medical emergencies…

As cases continued to surge, Xi’an further tightened lockdown measures on Monday, requiring all residents to stay at home unless permitted to go outside for mass testing. Previously, each household was allowed to send one designated person out to buy groceries every two days.

On Chinese social media platform Weibo, some Xi’an residents complained Tuesday they were running out of groceries at home.

“Can anyone save me?” a user asked. “I’m about to starve at home. There was no one taking my orders online … Please help me. It’s OK if it’s expensive, I just want to have some groceries. I’m desperate.”

Reuters reports on a similar complaint:

“It feels like a long time,” said a 22-year-old resident surnamed Jin.

“The fact that I haven’t yet been told when I could shop again makes me a bit anxious,” Jin, who ran out of fresh greens by Tuesday and couldn’t make orders online without waiting for nearly a week before delivery, told Reuters.

Of course it’s possible that China is simply not telling the truth about the nature of this outbreak but if it’s true that this has all been caused by the delta variant, it seems unlikely the country is prepared for the much faster spread of Omicron when it finally hits.

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It is hard to go shopping when you can't leave your house.  I suspect that most Chinese do not have a big pantry or freezer. 

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