Posted on 02/03/2021 4:24:54 PM PST by lightman
A pandemic control volunteer in northeastern China was stabbed to death on Feb. 3 while attempting to block a resident from leaving his apartment complex.
The volunteer, surnamed Zhang, worked as a guard at a residential community in Hulan district, Harbin city. He was stabbed multiple times after he refused to let a resident surnamed Chen leave the complex, as per lockdown rules, according to Hulan district police. Zhang was immediately rushed to a hospital, but was declared dead upon arrival.
The north-eastern province of Heilongjiang is one of the heaviest-hit regions in China’s latest CCP virus resurgence. In the capital of Harbin, many communities are currently under strict lockdown. Lockdown measures at the Kangle community in Hulan district, where the stabbing took place, are among the most restrictive: residents are ordered to stay inside their homes and are forbidden to take a stroll in their community courtyard. The Stabbing Incident
The Epoch Times was able to reach several residents in the same community who revealed more details.
One resident explained that Chen wanted to go out to buy medicine, but Zhang blocked him at the community entrance. Chen then went back home and returned with a knife, stabbing Zhang several times. This resident also revealed that almost all residents in Hulan district have been ordered to stay at home. Households with COVID-19-positive family members had their front doors sealed with a paper strip to keep everyone inside.
Another resident who spoke to The Epoch Times said the community was placed under lockdown since Jan. 19, as it was deemed high-risk.
The man added that, in his opinion, it’s good for people, especially the elderly, to take a walk every day, and there shouldn’t be a problem taking a walk in the courtyard as long as people are able to maintain a safe distance. In addition, all residents had to take four COVID-19 nucleic acid tests. Chinese Netizens’ Reactions
The stabbing incident quickly became the most searched topic on Weibo, a Twitter-like social media platform. Many Chinese netizens left comments expressing their opinions about the stabbing and their frustrations with the lockdown measures.
“Local authorities are so much into lockdown, and some volunteers are rude and have no sympathy… I believe there will be more incidents like this,” one wrote.
Most volunteers hired to handle pandemic-related tasks are recruited by local authorities.
“I hope pandemic control staff pay attention to their work manners. Do not use insulting words or take offending actions. You are ignoring other people’s feelings under the banner of pandemic control! If you handle things more humanely, give people kind advice, such incidents can be avoided,” another wrote.
One netizen who was a store owner shared his experience with pandemic volunteers. “Several volunteers came to my store a few days ago. I had a lot of customers before they came in, but almost all my customers left when the volunteers arrived and yelled at them. Then they conducted all kinds of tests inside the store. They seemed to be around 20 years old. I think they are college freshmen or so. I’m not against these control measures, however, these volunteers act as if they are officials. These young guys act as if they have high-level authority. Before they left, they appeared very unhappy and yelled at the store employees. I believe there is a reason behind the stabbing incident.”
“The pandemic is driving everyone to insanity,” one netizen commented.
Another said: “I live in the Jinpu community in Dalian city. Our community had been under sealed-off management for nearly a month. On one occasion, when the volunteer didn’t allow me to go downstairs to take a walk, I too had the urge to kill him. But I was able to restrain myself in the end. Now, someone else has reached the limits of their endurance.”
Authorities did not give details about Mr. Chen’s current situation.
--Donaldus Magnus
Since probably the housing crisis of 2008 government has gotten more aggressive about everything. Many government departments became “self funding.” That’s because they were overstaffed and the financial requirements for government staffs are high. They must also pay a defined benefit retirement which gets regular raises. No private company I am aware of still has a defined benefit retirement because they are unsustainably expensive. So, government at every level goes around fining people. This includes policing for profit.
Now, add that everyone is financially stressed, except, probably government workers, who haven’t missed a paycheck. Sixty-three percent of Americans do not have $500 saved for an emergency.
There you are, stressed to the max, late on your alimony payment with a threat of jail time...or some similar stesser... and some a$$hole clerk, cop, whatever, gets in your face because you aren’t wearing a mask, or some other inane, and, to you, totally pointless verbal attack. And, believe me, the employees in Publix and Walmart have been known to yell at people because they took five steps against the arrow to get an item off the shelf.
I witnessed a really rude clerk getting yelled at by a customer who, moments before seemed calm. The customer was escorted out by security and he was MAD. (Then the Walmart manager dressed down the clerk for being so rude.) Let’s spread this incident across any random 100 people. How many of those people might get violent? I’d say, potentially, five percent. Now, this is happening to hundreds of thousands of people. Doing the math, there is going to be a normal distribution’s worth of bad outcomes for lots of people.
In my opinion, this was avoidable. We should never have locked down or masked-up. The average person thinks the masks are useless or even harmful. But we are being forced to do things the average person does not believe in. If this continues, there is real trouble in the future.
Having said that, I was in Walmart yesterday and I’d estimate about five percent of the customers were not wearing masks. Many employees were wearing their masks below their noses. I’d say the mask thing is about over, regardless of what the CDC or Dr Fauci says.
“One resident explained that Chen wanted to go out to buy medicine, but Zhang blocked him at the community entrance. Chen then went back home and returned with a knife, stabbing Zhang several times.”
Comrade Zhang will be given a state funeral for his cause of dying for a Tylenol pill..
... but, but, but we were told China long ago flattened the virus😮
“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?... The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin’s thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If...if...We didn’t love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation.... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.”
― Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn , The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956
First thing that came to my mind.
Coming soon to a town near you...
Obey...
No no. They flattened the first round of infected comrades, and every whistleblower.
Lots of mask Hitler Karens even on Free Republic.
Mask Hitlers all over social media (Reddit is worse - publicly doxxing people and businesses not wearing masks properly - seen that a lot in any coronavirus subreddit, like r/CoronavirusColorado), all while cheering on lockdowns with fear porn.
Mask Hitlers all over Boulder and Denver coming to Weld and Larimer County to complain and yell at people not wearing chin diapers properly.
Let’s see...”Died OF COVID?”
Or “Died WITH COVID?”
I hike without a mask and have been since Day 1 of the pandemic. The notion that those little virion particles are going to get me on a trail is just preposterous.
I passed a guy last week and he started ragging on me for no mask. He pointed to his mask and said I needed one. I said “Yeah, you’re probably right” and kept going. He then yelled back “A$$hole.”
Was he a “Ken”?
LOL...I was hiking with my daughter and her boyfriend at Rodeo Beach in Marin a couple months ago. There was a stiff onshore breezed coming off the ocean. My daughter and boyfriend were in the restroom, so I sat on a bench facing the ocean with another guy about my age. We were having a nice chat when his harridan wife came up and started ripping me about no mask. Observing her attitude, I thought “Oh boy, I’ll have some fun with her” and I said “You don’t really believe that mask bullshit, do you?”
Whoa boy, you’d think I’d dropped Little Boy on Hiroshima! She just went off and started screaming “Why don’t you go back where you came from?” Her husband grabbed her arm and escorted her away from the bench. In the end, I had the whole bench to myself which was nice for a few minutes until my daughter and boyfriend got back.
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