The government announced a citywide lockdown would happen the next day in two phases.  First they would do a 4-day full-scale lockdown in Pudong across the river from March 28-31.   Then, when that finished, a 4-day lockdown in Puxi where we live from April 1-4.  Meanwhile, they would block off all the tunnels and subway lines criss-crossing the river the entire time.

This announcement was the beginning of the end of any public trust that still existed between the officials and the public.  Put simply, noboby believed a word of this.  We all figured, and correctly so, this was only at minimum and they would extend the lockdown for weeks if not months.  Public anger and anxiety was concentrated on the fact they were never straight with us and were evidently making things up as they went along.  Everything showed they had no handle on this thing at all.

Not surprisingly, there was full-blown panic on social media.  This coincided with people going mental at the supermarkets stocking up.  There might be plenty of food supply, but how are you supposed to get that delivered to your compound during a lockdown?  If people were going to starve, it would be due to logistics and city mismangement by these nincompoops in charge.