{"id":1173953,"date":"2021-12-30T21:49:08","date_gmt":"2021-12-31T02:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1173953"},"modified":"2021-12-30T21:49:12","modified_gmt":"2021-12-31T02:49:12","slug":"china-starving-out-13-million-trapped-at-epicenter-of-coronavirus-outbreak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/china-starving-out-13-million-trapped-at-epicenter-of-coronavirus-outbreak\/","title":{"rendered":"China Starving Out 13 Million Trapped at Epicenter of Coronavirus Outbreak"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fchina-starving-out-13-million-trapped-at-epicenter-of-coronavirus-outbreak%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1173953&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/GettyImages-1237453058-640x335-1.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\"><span>Residents of the Chinese city of Xi\u2019an took to social media on Thursday to plead for help, as they are running out of food and other necessities under a strict coronavirus lockdown order. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Imprisoned citizens furiously accused local officials of being dangerously unprepared for the lockdown.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p><span>With the understanding that no Chinese Communist government statement about coronavirus cases should be accepted at state value, officials claimed all but one of the 156 new coronavirus cases logged in China on Wednesday originated in Xi\u2019an.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Nearly the entire city of 13 million people was <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2021\/12\/23\/china-locks-down-13-million-in-xian-key-ancient-christian-site\/\"><span>locked down<\/span><\/a><span> a week ago, supposedly due to 143 coronavirus infections. Most public activities were suspended, travel outside the city was forbidden, and one member of each family was allowed to make a trip for groceries every two days.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Authorities&nbsp;<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/news\/chinas-xian-imposes-strictest-controls-to-halt-covid-outbreak\/\"><span>tightened<\/span><\/a><span>&nbsp;restrictions even further Monday,&nbsp;<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2021\/12\/27\/china-bans-rural-workers-holiday-visits-family-coronavirus-surge\/\"><span>prohibited<\/span><\/a>&nbsp;migrant workers<span> from returning home to see their families during the New Year holiday, and an army of technicians clad in hazmat suits blasted the entire city with disinfectant, a bizarre spectacle conducted with only a few hours of warning to miserable residents.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Xian residents running out of food as they enter eighth day of lockdown <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/rcltzaUaXh\">https:\/\/t.co\/rcltzaUaXh<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 South China Morning Post (@SCMPNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SCMPNews\/status\/1476421811067920387?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 30, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>Complaints against local officials for mismanaging the lockdown began almost immediately and reached a fever pitch on Thursday when the <\/span><i><span>South China Morning Post<\/span><\/i> <span>(<em>SCMP<\/em>) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/science\/article\/3161495\/coronavirus-xian-residents-running-out-food-chinese-city-enters\">quoted<\/a> complaints from Xi\u2019an residents who are beginning to starve.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cThis is getting more and more ridiculous. I never thought in my lifetime I would be unable to sleep because of not having food to eat,\u201d one unhappy camper said on Weibo, China\u2019s heavily censored version of Twitter.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cI\u2019m about to be starved to death. There\u2019s no food, my housing compound won\u2019t let me out, and I\u2019m about to run out of instant noodles \u2026 please help!\u201d <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/12\/28\/chinese-residents-starving-as-worlds-strictest-covid-lockdown-bans-them-leaving-home\/\"><span>said<\/span><\/a><span> another.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cHow do we live? What do we eat? Days ago, we could go out once to buy groceries but that\u2019s been canceled. All online grocery apps are either sold out or beyond the delivery range,\u201d complained another Weibo correspondent. In addition to delivering late, online grocery stores are reportedly charging very high prices for the food they have in stock.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p><span>Insider<\/span><span> on Thursday <a href=\"https:\/\/www.insider.com\/china-xian-intense-lockdown-people-running-out-of-food-covid-2021-12\">found<\/a> the Chinese Communist government dealing with these social media complaints by the time-honored tactic of deleting them. Censors managed to erase a Weibo hashtag, #DifficultToBuyFoodInXiAn, that had over 300 million views.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Local media reported the police have arrested at least seven people for \u201cdisrupting\u201d quarantine orders and \u201cfabricating rumors about excessive deaths in the province and reports of looting in the region.\u201d&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>People caught outside without permission could spend up to ten days in jail. Photos from ground and air show the huge city of Xi\u2019an eerily deserted, its roads and train stations empty.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The <\/span><i><span>SCMP <\/span><\/i><span>quoted city and national officials promising to get food to Xi\u2019an \u2013 or in some cases pretending there is no real crisis in Xi\u2019an, no matter how many hungry insomniacs might be begging for help on Weibo:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span>[Commerce Ministry] spokesman Gao Feng on Thursday said the ministry had been coordinating with six neighboring provinces to ensure the supply of daily necessities, while the commerce department in Xian was also working to make sure demand is met.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cThe Ministry of Commerce is working together with local government departments, with further measures to ensure deliveries are made and grocery prices are stable by responding to changes brought by the pandemic and [market] supply and demand,\u201d Gao said at a regular press briefing.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>\u201cI don\u2019t want to hear any more about how everything is fine,\u201d a starving Xi\u2019an resident snapped. \u201cSo what if supplies are so abundant \u2013 they\u2019re useless if you don\u2019t actually give them to people.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>AFP<\/span><span> on Wednesday <a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/live-news\/20211229-chinese-officials-admit-struggle-providing-food-in-locked-down-xi-an\">quoted<\/a> city officials admitting \u201clow staff attendance and difficulties in logistics and distribution\u201d made it difficult to get supplies to the huge number of quarantined residents. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Residents of the Chinese city of Xi\u2019an took to social media on Thursday to plead for help, as they are running out of food and other necessities under a strict &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1173953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1173953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1173953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1173953\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1173953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1173953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1173953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}