Re:An Account of the Shanghai Lockdown
by roenxi on Saturday April 09, 2022 @08:23AM
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Shanghai has a population larger than most countries. There are a lot of extreme stories every day in Shanghai. That has to be considered when talking about "mass" anything, even when putting aside the high likelihood of a misleading video.
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Re:An Account of the Shanghai Lockdown
by cloutchaser on Saturday April 09, 2022 @09:42AM
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Funnily enough I don’t recall mass suicide videos from any other city on earth?
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No, I'm a libertarian. But depending on how you want to measure it, Shanghai can be said to have a population bigger than Canada. That changes the context of what a video of sad cases means - 10s of anything, in Shanghai, is not that shocking.
This isn't some rural country town like New York or London with ~15-20 million population. A lot of people live in Shanghai.
I'm sure the situation in the city is terrible, but some video doesn't tell us much about anything.
Your reasoning is interesting. A non-shocking (in the sense of statistics and its likelihood on base population) event being posted and shared in digital media can result in reciprocally huge media effects.