It stands to reason that if people were able to go shopping, the stocks would be better managed than trying to deliver to individuals.
It also stands to reason that, if you have decided on a zero covid policy (rightly or wrongly), then you can't have people going out.
Even if you starve them into oblivion?
Obviously the Chinese have a few people to spare, so if it's for the greater good, then they can probably justify internally.
Dead people can't catch or spread Covid.
Perhaps not, but kill that many? Just to prove a point...
And the alleged infection rate is increasing in the face of the lock downs. Ergo the Lockdowns don't work.
Across China, infected people recover at a rate of 97 to 3. ie 97% recover. That's across the population of 1,450,000,000 and from the start of this nonsense and not just across one city in the last fortnight. And that's if you genuinely believe that they have only had 166,000 cases in the last two plus years.
The vast majority of cases are asymptomatic, and they probably have a reasonable level of immunity, ergo, the response makes zero sense.