qimin from brokerage shenwan hongyuan groupmany residents are sanguine in the face of the new lockdown seeing it as a necessary evil after weeks of targeted measures with limited successthe number of cases continued to increase frank huang a wine trader in shanghais pudong district told afpi think this new policy will achieve very good results and let our lives return to normalbut elsewhere frustration at chinas dogmatic approach to the virus is seeping out with empty shop shelves testament to the anxiety of residents scrambling for fresh food while social media hosts a mix of dry humour and increasingly caustic commentarythe whole world is returning to the right track one weibo user posted this week we are the only country still waiting and living with the ghost of 2019as shanghai experiments with unconventional control measures a weary public is again facing a pandemic which shapes their daily lives more than two years since it beganwe thought it was basically over miki xiang 31 a freelance designer told afp why did we start again