Time to stock up on toilet paper and whisky
What they seem to have found in Xian is even a very strict lockdown (1 person per household, once every two days shopping trip) wasn't enough to stem Omicron. And I presume in Xian most people have a kitchen which is more than you can say of HK... any more than a 24 hour lock in would get very problematic.
I don't think there's any easy answers. Vaccine mandates I guess. But that would take months to get around the population.
Isn’t Xi’an “only” Delta?
Curious what happens next, but wouldn’t count chickens, whatever you’re hoping for.
We've had a dry run with the Jordan weekend lockdown in January. Don't think many folks had a kitchen in those tiny Jordan subdivided flats but they did give out canned food. Magnify the scale a little, perhaps let the motherland help out by bringing in some PLA personnel and you could probably lockdown a larger area without too much of a fuss.
Seems you're right. Although the official narrative is also that there are more mild cases than seen in Wuhan with v1.0 which is what threw me (but which I now presume is another way of them saying that the official case count from Wuhan was only counting severely ill people!).