Anti-government anger rages across China: Online censors cannot keep pace with record anti-government posts, which are gaining millions of likes an hour before they are deleted.
Posts documenting the crisis in Shanghai are going IMMEDIATELY viral on Chinese Internet due to how many people following and commenting. One poster who called for the deaths of online censors received millions of likes in hours before it was deleted.
Survivalism blogs explode across Chinese web scene, teaching urban residents the basics of extended lockdown survival and how to stockpile dry goods and what to do to maximize storage options. Millions of Chinese urbanites already assumed that the government will simply do the same things it had done in Shanghai, and are now preparing for wartime conditions. Newsletters and reassurances from authorities fall on deaf ears as urbanites join HUGE survivalist communities to procure food, supplies, and organize community preparedness events, which are growing into record numbers.
Cannot stop the signal now. The more shit that is deleted, only makes folks MORE angry.
Xi Jinping CONTINUES to stand by the failed "zero COVID" policies even as backlash against the government has reached the highest ever seen.
President Xi Jinping now has a bigger problem than stopping Covid-19 infections: Quelling escalating anger in Shanghai before it spreads across China, creating a wider crisis of confidence in the Communist Party.
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Yeah it's Bloomberg news I know, but even a pigeon shits on the right person once in a while...