Trapped in lockdown, Shanghai residents turn to WeChat groups for food
Not much a smart move IMVHO: discussing on a hyper-surveilled platform is not good at all and in any cases they can&#x27;t download food so...<p>IMVHO they best move is just talking with their neighbors, in a day or two, offline, there will be a sufficient mass of people ready to descend to the street, and others will joint. At that point there is not much room for a new Tian&#x27;anmen: they are too much to be repressed.<p>On the other side: it&#x27;s a lesson almost no one would like to learn that we need to produce enough food to nourish residents, witch means that any relatively small area (like a region) should allow at maximum the number of residents who can be nourished at a minimum level with locally produced foods, of course commerce would be still there and improve life, but for basic surviving local one must be there. And that&#x27;s an enormous issue for China.<p>They need a younger population to remain in a growing state they need to counter the USA, they need to counter USA&#x2F;UK because they are already too much and so they have to source food from south America, Africa etc witch means they need a dominance of &quot;nearby&quot; sees and USA can&#x27;t accept that but a younger population means more children, so even more mouth to be nourished.<p>In Europe we have a less profound but not that different issue and in the north America I suspect that&#x27;s the same.