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China locks down around 13 million people in Xi'an city amid rising COVID-19 cases
WION ^ | 23/12/21

Posted on 12/23/2021 7:53:05 AM PST by Eleutheria5

13 million Chinese lockdown in Xian.

(Excerpt) Read more at youtube.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: china; covid; lockdown; xian
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To: 4yearlurker

That was bad stuff.

Of course most cars didn’t have overdrive ratio back then.

Now I can cruise at 80mph and 2000 rpm.


21 posted on 12/23/2021 9:00:17 AM PST by nascarnation (Let's Go Brandon!)
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To: 4yearlurker

President Nixon signs national speed limit into law - HISTORYhttps://www.history.com › this-day-in-history › nixon-s...

On January 2, 1974, President Richard M. Nixon signs the Emergency Highway ... signed a federal law lowering all national highway speed limits to 55 mph.


22 posted on 12/23/2021 9:03:26 AM PST by Grampa Dave (Nietzsche: “Everything the State says is a lie, and everything the State has. It was stolen!”)
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To: Eleutheria5
Re: China

As of 23 December 2021, Johns Hopkins University's “trusted” Coronavirus Resource Center still records “Confirmed Cases” of a mere 113,269, and “Deaths” as 4,849.

https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/region/china

Some Freepers “trusted” Worldometers.info reports something similar.

4,636 “official” deaths in China over the last two years.

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/

Taking the larger tally:

China through 23 months — ( 4,849 deaths since beginning of pandemic / 1,439,323,776 Chinese citizens ) x 100 = 0.0033 %

0.0033 %

So when reading “news” like this, one considers whether the source is to be trusted. Trusted like JHU’s 4,849 death tally for China, or Worldometers’ 4,636 death tally, both in a same range for a nation of 1.4 billion.

“The World is One News is an Indian multinational English language news channel headquartered in New Delhi. It is owned by the Essel Group and is part of the Zee Media network of channels.”

One may be sure the message is “lockdown” — essentially a quarentine of an entire locale or even nation — is a good thing.

The same message came from Imperial College, as from other “trusted” sources like the CDC, and many US state and city governments.

So all one need reflect on is what this “news” and the “official” data from JHU and Worldometer as well as the CDC really tells.

My view is that it tells “cripple your society” with totalitarian measures under the guise of “caring.”

Trust India's WION News? Trust Johns Hopkins? Trust Worldometer? Trust the CDC? Then all the above is trustworthy, as some post in Free Republic threads.

This is why I am skeptical. The data alone shows huge anomalies, inexplicable errors and assertions multiplied by assumptions. And preplanning....

https://centerforhealthsecurity.org/event201/

23 posted on 12/23/2021 9:11:58 AM PST by Worldtraveler once upon a time
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To: rightwingintelligentsia
I heard they haven’t had a Covid death since April of 2020. Why the need for a lockdown?

Chinese society has always been focused on a fear of "chaos." The CCP has taken that, and in 70 years, multiplied it 100X and perfected the political art of instilling fear, fake group consciousness, and grudging respect for government authority - backed by an all-controlling police apparatus and iron fist. Many Chinese (like Americans) sheepishly believe its for their own good, and tell themselves that as long as its being applied equally across society, then everyone is suffering equally.

The CCP has painted itself into a political corner though. When can they finally "open" the country? Because when they do, they will likely be faced with a spike in whatever Covid variants are around. Can they then simply ignore it?

24 posted on 12/23/2021 9:17:49 AM PST by PGR88
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To: Eleutheria5

Are we going to see another propaganda flood of videos showing people dying in the streets, dead bodies on gurneys in overcrowded hospitals, authorities welding shut apartment doors, and biohazard suited workers chasing down people in the streets and throwing them in vans and then spraying down the area with disinfectant like we did coming up on 2 years ago in Wuhan?


25 posted on 12/23/2021 9:18:31 AM PST by Rebelbase
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To: Grampa Dave

That used to make road tripping a PITA.


26 posted on 12/23/2021 9:19:55 AM PST by Rebelbase
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To: Grampa Dave

Keep in mind, the Climate Panic Cult was telling us oil would run out by the year 2000.


27 posted on 12/23/2021 9:27:16 AM PST by AppyPappy (Biden told Al Roker "America is back". Unfortunately, he meant back to the 1970's)
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To: AppyPappy
As to Climate Cult and "peak oil" fools...

"In Finland, a pilot plant known as Soletair – a joint venture between the Technology Research Centre of Finland VTT and the Lappeenranta University of Technology LUT — has been set up to use hydrogen extracted from water and carbon dioxide captured from air as raw materials to produce hydrocarbons.

"The experimental facility was constructed using three shipping containers and is located on the campus of the Lappeenranta University of Technology in southeast Finland. The process requires a great deal of electricity, so the facility generates its own energy from an on-site solar power plant." Essentially, the final product is a renewable carbon-neutral oil whose usage does not accelerate global warming.

https://www.rcinet.ca/eye-on-the-arctic/2017/06/13/finnish-researchers-use-air-solar-power-to-create-renewable-hydrocarbon/

28 posted on 12/23/2021 9:34:57 AM PST by Worldtraveler once upon a time
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To: EBH
They have a zero Covid policy


29 posted on 12/23/2021 9:45:26 AM PST by FreeReign
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To: Rebelbase

I suspect that the “dead” people got paid an extra bowl of rice for these theatrics.


30 posted on 12/23/2021 9:47:50 AM PST by Eleutheria5 (Buck Foe Jiden!)
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To: Worldtraveler once upon a time

I bet the lockdown is real. The danger, however, is staged.


31 posted on 12/23/2021 9:49:14 AM PST by Eleutheria5 (Buck Foe Jiden!)
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To: AppyPappy

The population bomb cult believed that the UK would no longer exist by 2000. Gives a whole new meaning for “you’re always a day away” not intended by Li’l Orphan Annie.


32 posted on 12/23/2021 9:51:55 AM PST by Eleutheria5 (Buck Foe Jiden!)
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To: IrishBrigade

What does “ring to slee” mean?


33 posted on 12/23/2021 9:54:39 AM PST by Eleutheria5 (Buck Foe Jiden!)
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To: Eleutheria5

Oh, “nothing to see”. Not at all how Chinese-accented English sounds, though. Used to play chess against a Chinese kid half my age, who enjoyed demolishing me. I learned nothing about chess except it was not my game at all. But I got the Chinese accent down somewhat. R and L are both W. Japanese confuse and switch them, plus add superfluous vowels because they have a problem with lone consonants. Chinese do not have past tense or future.


34 posted on 12/23/2021 10:05:12 AM PST by Eleutheria5 (Buck Foe Jiden!)
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To: Grampa Dave

“On January 2, 1974, President Richard M. Nixon signs the Emergency Highway ... signed a federal law lowering all national highway speed limits to 55 mph.”

Yes, you might say it was our first Mask Mandate. It might not have saved much fuel, but it certainly made the state lots of money from speeding tickets.


35 posted on 12/23/2021 10:18:06 AM PST by Not_Who_U_Think
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To: Eleutheria5

They also always sound like they’re singing when they speak.


36 posted on 12/23/2021 10:42:22 AM PST by Eleutheria5 (Buck Foe Jiden!)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Anybody who believes the reports from the Chinese gov’t is crazier than the whackiest Chinese...


37 posted on 12/24/2021 10:37:05 PM PST by Paul R. (You know your pullets are dumb if they don't recognize a half Whopper as food!)
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To: Eleutheria5
"???"

“No Ring To Slee Here.”

Nothing to see here.

38 posted on 12/25/2021 4:14:20 PM PST by StAnDeliver (Each of you have at least 1 of these in your 401k: Pfizer, Moderna, AstraZeneca, J&J, Merck and GSK)
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To: StAnDeliver

Oh. Nossing see heaw.


39 posted on 12/25/2021 4:16:25 PM PST by Eleutheria5 (Buck Foe Jiden!)
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To: Eleutheria5

You got it!


40 posted on 12/25/2021 4:33:34 PM PST by StAnDeliver (Each of you have at least 1 of these in your 401k: Pfizer, Moderna, AstraZeneca, J&J, Merck and GSK)
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