We're 3 weeks into Shanghai's full lockdown (some areas are at least 6 weeks in). As locked days grow, more families face unexpected contingencies. Here is a short list of grassroots online places to find help during this challenging period 🧵: 1- If you need urgent help, try posting on "上海抗疫互助" :daohouer.com
This online SOS platform is set up by young tech workers in Shanghai. In 4 days after it launched on April 7, it saw 2,000 help requests, from groceries to urgent meds need to mental health help

I’m in Shanghai, like many, I have been in lockdown for weeks (doing okay on food). I don’t have any on-the-ground info, so I made a brief timeline of Shanghai’s current covid outbreak to keep myself sane and things in perspective [thread]: March 1: Shanghai announced a local infection for the first time in more than a month. The outbreak might have crept in around Feb. 20 as the city quietly tried to put out fires and put close contact or secondary contact in quarantine (a few friends of mine were in isolation).