Posted on 04/24/2022 7:26:52 PM PDT by blam
Hopes that the CCP might be easing its Shanghai lockdown were dashed this week as authorities loosened restrictions for manufacturers and others businesses, while mostly keeping restrictions on residential areas intact.
Instead of winding down restrictions in Shanghai, authorities are now scrambling to suppress an outbreak in Beijing which they believe may have been spreading for as long as a week. The capital city reported 22 new local cases on Sunday, its highest daily tally this year.
While the number of new cases would be considered inconsequential anywhere else, authorities have placed part of Beijing under high alert, cancelling classes in a middle school where cases were detected, with the shutdown expectected to last for at least a week.
As authorities mobilized to try and curb the spread with mass testing, which has helped to scare locals into bracing for a lockdown, spurring sudden runs on grocery stores and other businesses.
After masstesting was announced for the central Chaoyang district, photos of empty grocery store shelves flooded social media.
Chaoyang is the biggest district in Beijing and is home to nearly 3.5 million people.
Stock up, Beijing today. After mass Covid testing was announced for the central Chaoyang district this afternoon. pic.twitter.com/OPq1NhrJiT
— Tong Bingxue 仝冰雪 (@tongbingxue) April 24, 2022
Locals will be required to take three PCR tests during the coming week.
Anxious vibe in #Beijing Chaoyang area where 4 mn people (incl me & my family) worry a lockdown is coming. Mass testing for everyone & long lines + empty shelves at stores. Officials assure a ‘stable’ food supply but we’ve been stockpiling for days. @NBCNews (vid @freddufour_DOP) pic.twitter.com/c0RbfKXsmn
— Janis Mackey Frayer (@janisfrayer) April 24, 2022
On Friday, the city pledged to make “every effort” to deal with provide adequate food supplies, but truck drivers have already been hindered by multiple checkpoints and virus tests, leading to long waits.
But Beijing isn’t the only Chinese city facing Shaghai-style lockdowns. City leaders met Saturday evening in Hangzhou, a technology hub best known to westerners as the home of Alibaba, to discuss how they plan to respond after more than 100 new cases were detected in the city since Tuesday.
In other COVID news, Bloomberg reported Sunday that Foxconn’s factory in Zhengzhou, situated in the Zhengzhou Airport Economy Zone that hosts Foxconn’s iPhone City campus, will continue operating despite the surrounding city facing an indefinite lockdown.
It goes without saying that a major lockdown in Beijing would have a massive impact on China’s economy, which has seen growth shrivel in the face of the lockdown in Shanghai.
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Socialist Democrats would LOVE it if we were all so compliant and panicked!
That said, how DOES one ‘prep’ in a Communist environment? I mean, you’re taught FROM BIRTH that Mother Government will care for your every need.
Brainwashing. Communism is complete and total brainwashing!
Yep.
Not this carp, again.
AND we've spent the last 20+ years pushing Russia into their arms. Insanity.
they are freaking out over 22 cases for the whole city? We had that per hour practically- and the vast majority are going to survive- over 99% infact-
Yep...it’s the precursor to the upcoming “con” likely heading our way
It’s de javu all over again.
It happened in CNY all the time when a particularly bad snow storm was forecast.
Only then the rocket scientists would wait until the snow had actually started before mobbing the stores like the apocalypse was happening.
You’d think growing up in NYS, people would learn to be ready for winter, but nooooooooo…… That would actually require some contact with reality.
How many false positives?
How many are actually cases of Covid and not something else that the test picked up?
Preppers ping. Folks in the US should do the same. It is always good to be prepared. One never knkws when the run on everyone will occur.
“Only if you are not prepared.”
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We were hearing all last week and maybe earlier that there will be a shortage soon of rice. I personally believe it.
The beauty of rice is it is inexpensive and shelf stable. Sams Club has not moved much on their pricing of rice, a 25 pound bag is $9.82 which is 39 cents per pound. This is the kind of thing you buy several and forget you even have it.
WalMart is still selling 4 (12 oz) cans of chicken for $7.96 Much more expensive than fresh chicken but will last years on the shelf.
Aldi this week raised the price of their house brand (Riggio) tomato pasta sauce from .89 to $1.35 this is still less expensive than name brand and is good quality.
The dry pasta shortage that began late last year still continues. WlaMart brand pasta is still about 89 cents a pound get some.
WalMart Great Value canned veg are up about 10 cents but still a buy at 55 cents a can.
For tomato sauce, the best option is to buy the tomato paste.
It’s so concentrated that you could sculpt it. But that means far less storage space, because you just have to thin it out with water.
“For tomato sauce, the best option is to buy the tomato paste.”
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That is another item you pick up a few cans every week for the bunker.
The only deadly, dangerous disease in China is Communism.
And China isn’t the only country afflicted.
Yep, look for a Sept emergency lockdown.
By the time the GOP-e figures out what is going on, Harris will be President.
Yup, a couple extra cans per trip will not raise any red flags.
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