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.