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>there was or is still going(I don't know) some lockdown on shanghai with the whole welding doors shut thing and people were basically starving since you couldn't rely on the goverment to deliver food to your door
This is happening, China living westerners have posted about it on KC/int/. The reasons are supposedly two: Xi decided they will have a zero covid strategy and lock down an area if there is a single case. If they change this now he will lose face, so they will have to keep it up. Secondly Shanghai is ruled by loyalists of the former president. Xi wants them to look bad so he ordered them to lock down for weeks to cause riots and rebellion against the Shanghai local government. It's an old Maoist tactic.
When people had no more food because the delivery chains broke down, they had local government goons loot some stores and hand out random packs of noodles and cookies good enough for 2 days. They don't plan ahead, they just follow orders. Those who have money will spend 10 h daily trying to order food in bulk to the neighbourhood, which is the only way to get it send, only large deliveries are allowed to enter. If someone tests positive for covid they get sent to concentration camps with 3000 people in a convention hall. There are no doctors, no showers, no food or water and the lights are on 24h/7. Anyone who's actually ill is likely to die there.

Keep in mind that Shanghai is the economic center of China, this is where all western companies produce their goods. So it's made to cause shortages all over the world.