Posted on 09/28/2020 12:31:51 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Researcher and attorney Michael P. Senger suggests that the Chinese government launched an aggressive propaganda campaign to exaggerate the severity of coronavirus in order to force the rest of the world into a draconian lockdown that would serve to benefit Beijing.
In an article for Tablet Magazine, Senger details how in late January, “international COVID-19 hysteria began” with a series of suspicious videos posted to social media sites showing people in China suddenly collapsing on the streets, including one instance where a man held out his arm to break his fall, suggesting the collapse was staged.
After tens of millions of people were confined to their homes during one of the most brutally enforced lockdowns in history, Senger notes how in February the CCP “reported an exponential decline in coronavirus cases, until March 19 when they announced their lockdown had eliminated domestic cases entirely.”
China has officially recorded just 4,634 deaths from coronavirus, despite having a population almost five times larger than the United States, where the current death toll stands at over 205,000.
The World Health Organization and other scientific experts then waxed lyrical about China’s response to COVID-19, which is what led to virtually every other country on the planet mirroring its approach.
However, Senger argues that the initial hysteria over COVID and lockdown that followed could have been a carefully orchestrated Chinese propaganda campaign to hoodwink its hegemonic competitors into destroying their own economies in response to a virus with a relatively low fatality rate.
The researcher documents how armies of Chinese bot accounts on Twitter were instrumental in promoting early lockdowns in countries like Italy while bombarding political figures who refused to order strict lockdowns, such as South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem, with criticism and abuse.
By promoting fraudulent data, aggressively deploying disinformation, and flexing its institutional clout, Beijing transformed the snake oil of lockdowns into “science,” crippling rival economies, expanding its influence, and sowing authoritarian values.https://t.co/VdC2DkDckG — Michael P Senger (@MichaelPSenger) September 16, 2020
He also highlights how Chinese state media organs savaged the “herd immunity” approach, which was initially considered but then rejected by several western leaders, as a violation of “human rights.”
Sweden, which went for the herd immunity approach by refusing to enforce a lockdown and came out economically better than any other European country, was also targeted by the bots, as was British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who was accused of engaging in “genocide” by initially considering the herd immunity approach.
Senger’s conclusion explores why China aggressively emphasized the need for global lockdowns.
“The most benign possible explanation for the CCP’s campaign for global lockdowns is that the party aggressively promoted the same lie internationally as domestically—that lockdowns worked.
For party members, when Wuhan locked down it likely went without saying that the lockdown would “eliminate” coronavirus; if Xi willed it to be true, then it must be so. This is the totalitarian pathology that George Orwell called “double-think.” But the fact that authoritarian regimes always lie does not give them a right to spread deadly lies to the rest of the world, especially by clandestine means.”
“And then there’s the possibility that by shutting down the world, Xi Jinping, who vaulted through the ranks of the party, quotes ancient Chinese scholars, has mastered debts and derivatives, studies complexity science, and envisions a socialist future with China at its center, knew exactly what he was doing.”
Senger’s theory holds weight when one considers how China has now been back to “normal” for months, while western countries, still panicked by COVID hysteria, continue to lockdown their citizens and cripple their own economies despite hospitalizations and deaths due to coronavirus having flatlined in countries like the United Kingdom.
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Would not have worked without Anthony Fauci on their payroll.
Why was Pilosi in China back in November??
Sounds very believable.
I don’t know but Pelosi was dumb enough to be inviting people to a Chinatown festival in San Francisco in late March.
And it could NOT have been done without American Tech Companies helping them.
Most of us here have lived through four Chinese flu pandemics. What stampeded me into accepting the scam in the first place was the fact that the Chicoms totally freaked. They had never reacted anything like this before. Yeah, sounds reasonable to be.
Just like the CCP knew we would.
Maybe. But Watson can find a conspiracy in an empty peanut butter jar.
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The FauXi goals:
Flatten the economy
Stop the spread of conservatism
Eliminate FREEDOM.
Where the current, vastly over-stated death toll stands at over 205,000
Yeah, we’ll there are attention-seekers here who perpetuate pages and pages bullshit numbers that no one looks at anyhow.
At one point the Chinese were spraying the streets with white mist. Was that real disinfectant or part of the propaganda?
I, for one, got fully snookered by this.Bring Out Your Dead
Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.
The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.
The false positive rate was 100%.
At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.
*sigh* Such is life, and death...
Quarantine the sick. Protect the vulnerable. Free everyone else.
They knew they could count on their DNC stooges and the partisan media shills.
The CCP had help from Communist Democrats in failed states such as New York, New Jersey, California, Connecticut, Illinois, Maryland, Washington, Oregon, etc. They were all determined to shut down the U.S. economy (and the world as well) that's been surging under President Trump since 2016. The Communist Chinese and their Communist Democrat counterparts in the United States are losing in a trade war and don't care who they make a casualty.
There are dozens of people who need to be brought up on criminal charges and Communist China and these failed states need to be sanctioned until they pay for the damage they've done.
Biden is bought and paid for by the Chinese. Why the hell would any sane person want to elect a Chinese-bought man?
Yep...those pictures of bodies in the streets. The one-week construction of eight new “hospitals.” A woman in a taxi cab talking about somebody burned alive in a crematorium. Videos of workers welding apartment doors shut.
Everything out of China screamed “End of the World.”
Everything Senger is saying makes tremendous sense.
The other news today is that, if we followed WHO’s own guideline on COVID deaths, we would be at 88,000 and not 200,000.
Everything was ginned up to scare the world to death and beg for strong, central control of our lives.
I looked at it...ONCE. Talk about your eyes glazing over.
It worked really well right here on Free Republic. I can regurgitate all of the replies i received citing the case fatality rates, hockey stick charts, so called expert Freepers and Freepers citing experts explaining how a lockdown was needed or we would all die.
I replied numerous times that the lockdown crowd was comprised of Freepers collecting government checks while safely at home. I was never rebutted. They insisted on restricting the liberties of everyone to protect their selves.
I was named a Flubro because I said people should freely decide whether or not to go out, wear a mask, or close their business while those who were vulnerable should isolate themselves.
Whether or not they were tools of Chinese disinformation or just weak kneed conservatives they will have to decide. But I am convinced that the support for tyrannical lockdowns showed by Freepers helped the leftist politicians and hurt Trump.
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