Berman then brought in Culver and remarked, “There is some sign that China is responding to this pushback.”

“Let’s hope, John, at least in words. You and I were talking more than two-and-a-half years ago and the Wuhan lockdown at that time was really the most pressing issue,” said Culver, reporting from Shanghai. “Well, if you think Wuhan 2020 was bad, welcome to Shanghai 2022. This has been like no other lockdown. And it’s in the country’s cosmopolitan and affluent financial hub of all places.”

Culver recalled that authorities were taping up his and his neighbors’ doors. He also said that the food shortages [in Shanghai] have worsened” as people have been unable to get food and deliverers have been “locked down.”