Posted on 10/29/2022 5:28:42 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
China is one of the few nations remaining that is clinging to the “Zero Covid” policy of massive testing and draconian lockdowns whenever an outbreak of the virus is detected. And with winter coming, Chinese citizens are bracing themselves for more unprecedented measures to try and stop the outbreak in its tracks.
Currently, more than 200 million people are under total lockdown — no shopping, no work, not even a walk in the park.
“Many of my friends and coworkers have been under lockdown at home,” said Guangzhou resident Lily Li, 28, according to Reuters. “The situation is still unstable. Many places are under lockdown. Classes have stopped and entertainment venues have been suspended too. The gym that I often go to has also been closed.”
Many China watchers believed that President Xi would use the occasion of the party congress that ended last week to announce a gradual lifting of some of the harsher zero-Covid measures that have angered the populace and contributed to an economic slowdown
Instead, Xi made it clear that the nation would redouble its efforts to control the pandemic by locking down the county and isolating its people
China on Thursday reported a third straight day of more than 1,000 new COVID cases nationwide, a modest tally compared with the tens of thousands per day that sent Shanghai into a full-blown lockdown earlier this year but enough to trigger more restrictions across the country.
China’s coronavirus case load has remained small by global standards, but its ultra-strict and disruptive containment measures this year against the highly transmissible Omicron variant have weighed heavily on the world’s second-largest economy.
(Excerpt) Read more at pjmedia.com ...
Guangzhou, China’s fourth-biggest city by economic output and the provincial capital of Guangdong, on Thursday sealed up more streets and neighbourhoods and kept people in their homes as new areas were deemed high-risk in a COVID resurgence that persisted into its fourth week.
UK Gov’t confirms Covid19 harmless to VAST MAJORITY of people
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adj8MCsZKlg
Maybe they should stop colluding with Dr Fubar
THIS IS THE PROBLEM WITH HAVING A CULTIC PERSONALITY OF A LEADER: BY DEFINITION, HE CAN DO NO WRONG AND HIS POLICIES CANNOT BE QUESTIONED, CRITICIZED, OR ELSE....
As a reult, China is stuck in Covid hell. In Communist countries, if the leader admits error, that leader will almost certainly disappear from view and be “retired” unceremoniously.
In this case, Xi has committed a whopper of an error and can’t afford to change the policy.
THIS IS THE PROBLEM WITH HAVING A CULTIC PERSONALITY OF A LEADER: BY DEFINITION, HE CAN DO NO WRONG AND HIS POLICIES CANNOT BE QUESTIONED, CRITICIZED, OR ELSE....
As a reult, China is stuck in Covid hell. In Communist countries, if the leader admits error, that leader will almost certainly disappear from view and be “retired” unceremoniously.
In this case, Xi has committed a whopper of an error and can’t afford to change the policy.
Note to Trudeau:
That’s because their central planning is done by engineers, mathematicians, and scientists.
It won’t work when it’s done by lawyers and politicians.
https://archive.ph/EfXbd#selection-4181.0-4185.425
“Peter Collignon, a professor of infectious diseases at the Australian National University, and Chen Zhengming, an epidemiologist at the University of Oxford, both see China sticking to the lockdowns, mass testing and travel curbs of Covid Zero through winter, with tweaks not coming until next year — after the National People’s Congress (NPC), due to be held in March or April. China may be forced into a more pragmatic approach as lockdowns become less effective at eliminating Covid cases, particularly over winter, Collignon said.”
But what happens next winter? By then, Xi may relent and allow the far more effective Western vaccines to be used. But even then, if China is going to lock down at the first sign of infections, nothing will improve and China will be stuck with a failed policy that feeds the people’s discontent.
It’s about stopping the protests and bank runs breaking out all over China. Nothing to do with Covid. Xi is an ignorant barbarian whose only skill is internal politics. He’s Brandon level stupid on everything else.
Lockdowns during the Xi purge and consolidation of power.
Like Biden did to us when he stole the election in 2020.
That’s because their central planning is done by engineers, mathematicians, and scientists.
It won’t work when it’s done by lawyers and politicians.
I've been to China more than I'd like and I can tell you that their central planning doesn't work nearly as well as people think it does, it's a pretty dysfunctional place. The only reason it works at all is because they have pretty much unlimited manpower at their disposal to throw at a project. Contrast that with the Japanese who can get a project done much better and much quicker with far fewer workers.
most FakeNewsMSM have ignored the following:
VIDEO/PICS: 29 Oct: Daily Mail: Daily Mail: Let us free: Rare protest erupts in Tibet over three-month Covid lockdown as hundreds march in streets and clash with officials in hazmat suits to decry harsh measures, no income and food shortages... before footage is wiped from Chinese social media
by Rachel Bunyan
Lhasa has been locked down for 74 days in accordance with China’s zero-Covid strategy...
Videos shared on Douyin, the Chinese version of TikTok, showed hundreds of what appeared to be mostly migrant workers of Han Chinese ethnicity marching through the streets of Lhasa on Wednesday, demanding to be allowed to return home...
In one video, hundreds of people are seen in a street blocked by police and hazmat-suited health workers...
But some cell phone footage has been smuggled out of the region and remain on Twitter...
A video shot from another angle showed police vans and officers carrying riot shields stationed nearby.
AFP has geolocated the two videos next to an agricultural market not far from Lhasa’s Potala Palace, the traditional residence of the Dalai Lama and the site of a self-immolation protest by a Tibetan pop star earlier this year...
Despite public anger, the former chairman of Shanghai’s Communist Party Committee, the city’s top official who was ultimately responsible for the lockdown measures, was given the No. 2 spot in the party’s all-powerful Politburo Standing Committee - an indication of Xi’s elevation of political loyalty above those capable of gaining public support through competent administration...
Chinese authorities also have not mandated vaccination - entering an office building or other public places requires a negative COVID-19 test, not proof of vaccination...
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11365665/Rare-protest-erupts-Tibet-three-month-Covid-lockdown.html
The rhetorical question yet again:
What are they afraid of?
What if it wasn’t just Covid that got out of the labs?.
Just wondering question everything.
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