As Virus Continues to Spread in Beijing, Residents Grow Angry Over Lockdown and Soaring Food Prices

Epoch Times ^ | 01/26/2021 | Alex Wu

[SeekAndFind]

The latest round of the COVID-19 outbreak in China’s capital Beijing is spreading rapidly, with cases popping up in more districts. A local hospital was locked down, and hundreds of residents were urgently relocated for quarantine. The Epoch Times spoke with some Beijing residents who expressed frustration over the government’s handling of the situation and the recent spike in food prices.

During a press briefing on the epidemic situation in Beijing on Jan. 25, authorities reported that five new cases were confirmed the day before, including one in Xicheng district, located in the city center, according to Chinese news portal Sohu.

Due to Chinese authorities’ past record of underreporting infections and covering up information, it is difficult to assess the true scale of the current CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus outbreak.

At the press conference, local authorities from Daxing district said that residents are required to stock up on three days’ worth of food and supplies, but said they would be limited to one order per day. They should also avoid buying in large quantities in a single transaction, authorities said. Residents who are self-quarantined at home usually get their groceries and supplies from community workers. But lately, many community workers have also been confined to their homes.

Also on Jan. 25, Beijing Nanjiao Cancer Hospital in Daxing district, a hotspot of the latest COVID-19 outbreak in Beijing, announced that the hospital suspended all outpatient services and stopped admitting new patients for hospitalization. Administrators confirmed that the CCP virus was detected on two samples from the hospital’s garbage truck after nucleic acid testing on Jan. 23, Chinese news media Sina reported.

[cockroach_magoo]

By the looks of it, China will soon become as authoritarian as these tenuously United States.

[a fool in paradise]

>>As Virus Continues to Spread in Beijing, Residents Grow Angry Over Lockdown and Soaring Food Prices

CLEARLY the continued spread is Donald Trump’s fault. That has been Joe BiteMe’s claim for a year.

[a fool in paradise]

Things must be bad in China now because complaining about things is not healthy over there.

[Skywise]

They had 0 cases for months.

Suddenly... it’s back.

This virus doesn’t behave logically or even scientifically...

[blueplum]

CCP virus was detected on two samples from the hospital’s garbage truck

you know a virus is out of control when the garbage trucks start coming down with it

[cockroach_magoo]

How dare this virus not follow the science!

[MinorityRepublican]

All it takes is one. Then 10. 100. Before you know it, 1,000.

[SeekAndFind]

RE: They had 0 cases for months.

Never believe CCP figures - EVER !

[Paladin2]

Fauxcy’s fault.

[metmom]

Prepper ping

At the press conference, local authorities from Daxing district said that residents are required to stock up on three days’ worth of food and supplies, but said they would be limited to one order per day. They should also avoid buying in large quantities in a single transaction, authorities said. Residents who are self-quarantined at home usually get their groceries and supplies from community workers.

Keeping the populace on a really short leash by controlling the food supply.

Saddam Hussein did the same thing. He didn’t allow anyone to have more than a month’s supply of food. You picked it up once a month and made it last.

Coming soon to a country near you.

Which is why you grow your own and do NOT use hybrid seeds, which you cannot save yourself.

[rollo tomasi]

The Chinese should be happy not frustrated,

Viceroy Biden is in the process to do wonderful things for the Chinese communist government using United States’ resources.

[The MAGA-Deplorian]

You morons in China outnumber the military a million to one. Rise up and crush them now.

[SeekAndFind]

RE: You morons in China outnumber the military a million to one. Rise up and crush them now.

With what? The Chinese don’t have Second Amendment rights.

[Left2Right]

Considering that the Chinese ran out of food last year due to the massive flooding that wiped out most of their crops, and then used up most of their grain reserves in the fall, things may be about to get even worse for them. Container ships leaving the US have been refusing to load up grain bought by Chinese buyers so that they can send back the empty ships to China to get more cheap goods to sell to the U.S.!

"Awareness has been growing about the negative impact of the current global container shipping imbalance. Extraordinarily high rates and high demand for Asian exports to the United States have led some carriers to send empty containers back to Asia for the lucrative head haul, rather than to inland U.S. for lower-revenue export shipments."

Ocean Carriers Refusing US AG Exports

The irony is so unreal, but so is the current state of everything these days!

[lightman]

Let them eat cat.

[Kevmo]

I wonder if there's a way for us anti-statists here in the west to hook up with anti-statists in China and the east.

[knarf]

China can pull this crap off NOW because their boy is in the White House.

[OrangeHoof]

Things must be bad in China now because complaining about things is not healthy over there.

Not healthy for the complainers, typically.

If I were COVID positive and lived in Beijing, I would slip myself into the corridors of power and start spitting on all the desks until I was rounded up and shot.

[colorado tanker]

Well, seems that Beijing is about as effective as NYC at stopping the virus. Maybe they should consult Cuomo about more Stalinist measures they could implement that won’t stop the virus?