Re:An Account of the Shanghai Lockdown
by roenxi on Saturday April 09, 2022 @09:38AM
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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.
Re:An Account of the Shanghai Lockdown
by Spivakov on Saturday April 09, 2022 @12:56PM
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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.
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.