Posted on 01/04/2022 5:53:31 AM PST by blam
China is now dealing with three serious outbreaks as the eastern port city of Ningbo reported 16 cases over the weekend, while the city of Yuzhou, a smaller city with 1.3M residents, has seen some of its neighborhoods placed on lockdown.
Fortunately for China’s economy, the Ningbo Zhoushan Port, the largest port in the world, said in a statement published on Weibo late Sunday that its operations are basically stable despite the strict COVID controls to try and contain the outbreak. Of the 16 cases, authorities said nine were imported and seven were local.
According to a statement posted by Yuzhou’s city government to its Weibo account, a lockdown has been imposed upon the downtown district, even though the city reported just 3 cases on Monday. Public transit, taxis and school have all been suspended in the district.
Fortunately for the Chinese economy, the numbers in Ningbo are much smaller than the number of new cases still being reported in Xi’an, which is in the middle of a mass lockdown, leaving many in the city of 13M without easy access to essentials like food and medicine.
As the virus continues to spread, the Ningbo Containerized Freight Index has just reached an all-time record high of $4,264/FEU at a time when shipping costs around the world have surged.
The port city has already undergone 3 partial lockdowns in the past 6 months, according to China’s state-controlled press. Meanwhile, some 200 pilots have been put into quarantine over the past week after two pilots tested positive for the virus.
It’s fair to assume the world is curious about the conditions inside Xi’an, as critics of China pointed out on Twitter that there are no “citizen journalists” in Xi’an reporting on the latest lockdown. That’s unlike the situation in Wuhan, which was covered by several citizen journalists. However, most of these people were disappeared or otherwise disciplined by Chinese authorities, setting a pretty clear example for anybody else who might want to try it.
Still, even China’s state-controlled press has acknowledged that people in the city had been struggling to buy food. It’s unclear whether this situation has eased.
Beijing must contain the situation in Ningbo: freezing the port would have broad-based ramifications for the entire Chinese economy, and the global economy more broadly.
As we noted the other day, traders have already started freaking out about the prospect of supply chain-crippling shutdowns in China, even as companies with large factories in Xi’an have insisted the lockdowns aren’t having a big impact on production. But as a reminder, the last time China’s megaports of Yantian or Ningbo were closed, supply chains collapsed, shipping rates went astronomical after a modest lag.
China finished off 2021 last week by reporting the most new cases since the end of the lockdown in Wuhan, and overall, the number of new cases has been nearing 200/day since the start of the New Year.
Treadmill shipments hardest hit. Now, per jen sack o’ crap, if you simply get booster # 4 or 5 in the ongoing series, your treadmill may arrive next Monday. “We Can Do This!”
Bet it’s been far worse than what INGSOC media has bothered to tell us.
This will stop folks, especially the media hysteria. Welcome to your new dystopian existence where information and tech oligarchs create, control and monetize your reality.
**will never stop.
A small price to pay to have their very own puppet emperor in DC . . .
The real plague has always been the lefttards, from the chicoms to the demonrats.
I’m starting to wonder if the Gates Foundation actually were behind this whole thing using the chinese as scapegoats. He wants to lower the world population which would include the chinese. As we already suspect the CCP of doing bad things it was easy to put the blame on them while also killing off a lot of the chinese population.
I could read the Art of War into this scenario easily.
I read the article (thanks for posting) and it wasn’t clear to me which COVID strain this is. I hope it’s not another new one.
“I’m starting to wonder if the Gates Foundation actually were behind this whole thing using the chinese as scapegoats. “
Gates Sr. was an ardent eugenicist.
"Fortunately for China’s economy, the Ningbo Zhoushan Port, the largest port in the world, said in a statement published on Weibo late Sunday
that its operations are basically stable despite the strict COVID controls to try and contain the outbreak.
Of the 16 cases, authorities said nine were imported and seven were local."
" According to a statement posted by Yuzhou’s city government to its Weibo account, a lockdown has been imposed upon the downtown district,
even though the city reported just 3 cases on Monday.
Public transit, taxis and school have all been suspended in the district."
"Fortunately for the Chinese economy, the numbers in Ningbo are much smaller than the number of new cases still being reported in Xi’an,
which is in the middle of a mass lockdown, leaving many in the city of 13M without easy access to essentials like food and medicine."
"As the virus continues to spread, the Ningbo Containerized Freight Index has just reached an all-time record high of $4,264/FEU
at a time when shipping costs around the world have surged. "
Likely a ‘new’ variant... We’ll be seeing this in the next month or two. They need to keep this nonsense going, because they are making way too much money to let this foolishness stop.
“...Including Home Of World’s Largest Port”
That should shorten the container ship backup at L.A..
Any new Covid deaths reported for China, as of today. Let’s see.
https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/region/china
Nope.
Never believe any numbers or other data that comes from any Socialist/Communist country. Ever.
One would think they want “3 cases” to be a recommended standard for the world to shut down cities, states, whole economies.
— Also from the article: “China finished off 2021 last week by reporting the most new cases since the end of the lockdown in Wuhan, and overall, the number of new cases has been nearing 200/day since the start of the New Year.”
Cases. Cases. Cases. Pictures of folks in Hazmat suits. Cases and more cases. And reported deaths? As above, zilch as of today.
Agreed.
Looking at “official” data means looking at fictions created just for us.
But citing the HUGE anomalies in the “official” data tells its own special tale.
( 5,440,715 “global deaths) / 7,917,528,778 global population ) x 100 = 0.0687%
Less than seven one-hunredths of one percent “global deaths” from Covid over two years.
They are pulling the same crap they did two years ago.
The past two years were an overture. This is the beginning. Horrors yet unimagined are coming hard, very hard.
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