Posted on 01/24/2022 9:39:58 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Finally, after a month of living with a brutal, Wuhan-style lockdown, the 13 million residents of Xi'an, the provincial capital of Shanxxi, are finally free to go about their business. The CCP announced over the weekend that it would end the lockdown after a month, having officially triumphed over the virus yet again (although other outbreaks are vexing authorities in Beijing and elsewhere).
On Monday, meanwhile, health authorities confirmed the first new confirmed case of COVID in Shanghai since the start of the latest round of outbreaks. While it's only one case for now (at least, according to what the CCP is willing to tell the public), COVID cases follow the cockroach theory: where there's one, there are more.
According to official sources, a worker at a cargo terminal in Shanghai's Pudong International Airport tested positive for COVID. While the case has been categorized as mild, Shanghai authorities have upgraded the risk level on a residential compound in the Fengxian district, leaving its residents to face tighter restrictions and mandatory testing. Authorities in Shanghai are also "encouraging" residents to remain in the city during the upcoming Lunar New Year holiday.
China also reported four cases of COVID among incoming travelers for the Winter Olympics (which starts Feb. 4). One infection involved an individual identified as an "athlete" and three identified as "stakeholders" by the Beijing Organizing Committee for the Olympics, in a statement.
As authorities in Beijing continue to tighten restrictions ahead of the start of the Winter Games, the Chinese government has started to use its panopticon of surveillance to discreetly track people who buy cough medicine or anything else that might be used to alleviate the symptoms of COVID, according to Bloomberg.
Beijing residents who purchase antipyretics, antivirals and drugs that target coughs and sore throats will get an alert on the mobile app China uses for contact tracing and which is frequently checked to allow entry to public venues. The buyer will then need to take a Covid test within 72 hours or face movement restrictions, the Beijing Municipal Health Commission said on Sunday.
With the US and some of its western allies boycotting the Olympics, many diplomats simply don't need to worry about traveling to Beijing this year. But those who are face some pretty stiff anti-COVID restrictions. Some might be forced to quarantine for a total of 21 days if they are ever deemed to be "close contacts" of anybody found to be positive.
That's bad news for any diplomat who doesn't want to risk being detained in a Chinese quarantine facility just so they can attend the Winter Olympics.
Already, Chinese authorities have discovered 78 cases among travelers associated with the Games since Jan. 4. So, in the hopes of avoiding further embarrassment, the CCP has decided to lower the testing threshold for what's considered a positive case. Perhaps they have seen our reporting on the COVID "casedemic" and how to address it.
What percentage of these people died because of this lockdown?
China probably needed cannon fodder to push into Taiwan.
I wonder how many starved to death.
Yes, lockdowns work (sarcasm), the Chinese Communists want the world to believe, so that the West will again follow the Commumists and lockdown Western economies.
But lockdowns all over the West -- which I did not call the "free world: because lockddowns do not make for freedom -- proved nothing.
This the correct conclusion is that this is propaganda, in the guise of fear porn.
...having officially triumphed over the virus yet again... is the latest.
But to believe the Chinese Communists is laughable, and to believe the "official" data from the "official" Covid reporting entities in the West is also laughable. One would have to belief such as the University of Washington's IMHE (Gates supported) which has reported less than 5,000 Covid deaths in China for almost two years.
From the IMHE:
• Reported deaths due to COVID-19 in the last week decreased to 0 per day on average compared to 0 the week before (Figure 3.1).
• Total deaths due to COVID-19 in the last week decreased to 0 per day on average compared to 0 the week before (Figure 3.1). This makes COVID-19 the number 122 cause of death in China this week (Table 1). Estimated total daily deaths due to COVID-19 in the past week were 1 times larger than the reported number of deaths.
• No locations had daily reported COVID-19 death rates greater than 4 per million (Figure 4.1).
• No locations had daily total COVID-19 death rates greater than 4 per million (Figure 4.2). • We estimate that 0% of people in China have been infected at least once as of January 10 (Figure 6.1). Effective R, computed using cases, hospitalizations, and deaths, is greater than 1 in 4 countries. (Figure 7.1).
https://www.healthdata.org/sites/default/files/covid_briefs/6_briefing_China.pdf
To be taken in again by the visuals -- remember the man collapsing in the late 2019 video from China? -- and the lockdown reporting AND conclude that China has "officially triumphed over the virus yet again...." is ludicrous.
Nation and State is merely reporting what Zero Hedge reported, which is actually what Bloomberg reported. That is the state of journalism today.
How many people were eaten during this lockdown?
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