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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My coworker is from Shanghai and still has family there. She explained and said that people who are originally registered to live in Shanghai are getting supplies normally but those who have moved to the city from other places are lower on the priority list. The latter are facing shortages.[/quote]

This makes sense.  You can’t just live wherever you want to in china.  Similar to the USSR, you have to have permission to move and settle somewhere.  You have to officially register.  [/quote]

You have to register your move in most of Europe, too. Just don't need permission to do it.  Dont make more of that than it is.  Americans register their moves, they just don['t call it that because the registery is decentralized.[/quote]

What on earth are you talking about? Americans registering their moves? That is not a thing. [/quote]

NP here, and former expat in china, and it absolutely is a thing for expats living on the mainland to register their whereabouts in a situation like this. We were there during swine flu.

In the past two weeks we’ve seen two sets of friends from our time there. Both times the convo has been how there is no effing way we would be there, or in HK, right now. I would have left all my things behind when it first broke. Swine flu was a bazillion times tamer, and scary AF. [/quote]

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