This Is How a Locked-Down Shanghai Apartment Gets Food
Odd Lots
Bloomberg
4.5 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 29 April 2022
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Shanghai, a city of nearly 30 million people, is currently under a hard lockdown, as the Chinese government sticks to its Covid Zero strategy of limiting the virus at all costs. There have been some shocking images and stories over the past few weeks of frustrated apartment dwellers unable to go outside or get basic necessities. Some of those things have improved somewhat, and now some residents are able to coordinate and make their own delivery food orders. On this episode, we speak with David Fishman, an energy analyst at the Lantau Group, who, himself, is in a locked down Shanghai apartment complex. He discusses how he's been able to coordinate with other residents to group-buy food and obtain basic essentials.
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| 1:00.1 | Joe, it feels like everyone is a logistics expert nowadays. |
| 1:05.5 | Yeah, everyone was a epidemiologist, and then everybody became a dredging expert, |
| 1:11.9 | and now everyone is just a logistics expert overall. |
| 1:14.9 | I mean, I am joking, but there are a lot of people in China specifically that have been forced |
| 1:22.7 | into becoming actual logistics experts because of the lockdowns that have been going on now, |
| 1:28.7 | for in some cases over a month in places like Shanghai. |
| 1:32.2 | Yeah, this is a really good point. So when people joke about everyone becoming an expert, |
| 1:37.2 | usually they just mean they're an expert on Twitter or whatever. |
| 1:40.9 | But for people who have to think about how do you get food or how do you distribute food and |
| 1:45.6 | other key supplies during a mass lockdown, becoming a logistics expert actually is not |
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