prided itself on its less disruptive approach to covid containment. there were never any citywide mass testing, and their quarantine measures were considered more lenient. so there was a lot of hope this would inspire other cities in china to do the same thing, eventually leading to the country being reopened to the outside world. but instead the opposite is now happening in shanghai, with this citywide lockdown all but in name happening to a lot of people. millions confined to their homes. the city's public transportation including the world's biggest metro network, a large portion of it being shut down, and then of course growing concerns with the city's health care system, especially with a lot of people trying to seek medical attention for non-covid illnesses being turned away. at least one case of somebody dying because of this. and also remember, shanghai has the country's oldest population among all the major cities. so this is a major concern among the elderly population, especially those who are not vaccinated.