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Shanghai Covid: Ikea shoppers flee attempt to lock down store
BBC News ^ | August 15, 2022 | Melissa Zhu

Posted on 08/15/2022 6:54:08 AM PDT by Republicans 2016 2020

There were chaotic scenes at an Ikea store in Shanghai on Saturday, with shoppers trying to escape as authorities tried to quarantine them.

Health officials were attempting to lock the store in Xuhui district down as a customer had been in close contact with a positive Covid case.

Videos show the guards closing the doors at one point, but a crowd forced them open and made their escape.

Shanghai endured a severe two-month lockdown earlier this year.

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


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1 posted on 08/15/2022 6:54:08 AM PDT by Republicans 2016 2020
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To: Republicans 2016 2020

Now the Chinese will call it the Swedish Flu.


2 posted on 08/15/2022 6:57:01 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (If Hitler invaded Hell, I would make at least a favourable reference of the Devil...-Churchill)
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To: Republicans 2016 2020

Ikea? China?


3 posted on 08/15/2022 6:58:35 AM PDT by ComputerGuy (Heavily-medicated for your protection)
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To: Republicans 2016 2020

Sheep No More! I like that the people inside said, “Hell No! we’re not staying at IKEA for two days. What if they run out of meatballs?”


4 posted on 08/15/2022 7:01:42 AM PDT by Savage Rider
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To: KarlInOhio

We’re locked in an IKEA... for the duration of the meatballs.


5 posted on 08/15/2022 7:05:37 AM PDT by Tallguy
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Ikea? China?

At least someone is selling overpriced junk back to them. Swedes ought to add some special toxic waste sauce.


6 posted on 08/15/2022 7:06:12 AM PDT by rxh4n1
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To: rxh4n1

A billion Chinese. They’ll always bee holed up together too close.


7 posted on 08/15/2022 7:07:49 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
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To: rxh4n1

It’s too trendy for them to resist.


8 posted on 08/15/2022 7:09:04 AM PDT by ComputerGuy (Heavily-medicated for your protection)
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To: Republicans 2016 2020

When the Chinese people show more fortitude than most Americans ...


9 posted on 08/15/2022 7:11:52 AM PDT by CatOwner (Don't expect anyone, even conservatives, to have your back when the SHTF in 2021 and beyond.)
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To: Republicans 2016 2020

A bit surprising. Maybe even the conditioned and trained Chinese are beginning to question the CCP and their policies.

I remember walking into the Beijing airport terminal and immediately being cordoned off with a rope, along with several others, and being searched. The moment when you realize you have no rights in that country. Nobody says a word. It is normal and expected.

My Chinese work colleague told me, in response to me asking “how do you feel about not being able to speak out?”, “we’re not allowed to feel”.


10 posted on 08/15/2022 7:15:30 AM PDT by fuzzylogic (welfare state = sharing of poor moral choices among everybody)
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To: Savage Rider

Their salmon is halfway decent, especially given the price.

In all seriousness one of our contractors has a facility in China and we were concerned about using it because of lockdowns.

Their representative told us they have a hotel at the factory so the employees can stay there and eat at the restaurant.

Imagine living at work.


11 posted on 08/15/2022 7:16:00 AM PDT by packagingguy
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The hysteria sweeping China over this silly virus doesn't quite square with the notion of China being this big powerhouse nation that will soon dominate the world.
12 posted on 08/15/2022 7:18:04 AM PDT by SamAdams76 (3,805,215 users on Truth Social)
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To: Republicans 2016 2020

I wouldn’t mind being locked down in an IKEA. Of course, not with hundreds of others, just me. :)


13 posted on 08/15/2022 7:26:48 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have, 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set. )
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To: Republicans 2016 2020

No one pulled the fire alarm?


14 posted on 08/15/2022 7:57:12 AM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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Freepers are some of the most knowledgeable and innovative people on the planet:)


15 posted on 08/15/2022 8:14:28 AM PDT by Cold Heart (Save The Grid, Phase Out EV's)
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To: KarlInOhio

Now the Chinese will call it the Swedish Flu.


And there is precedent for that. Governor Cuomo, the gold standard for Wuhan response, referred to it as ‘the European virus’.


16 posted on 08/15/2022 8:37:50 AM PDT by hanamizu
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To: Republicans 2016 2020

Try to lock me up in an Ikea store, there’d be some of that crap knock-down furniture flying thru their plate glass windows.


17 posted on 08/15/2022 9:04:12 AM PDT by moovova
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Insanity.


18 posted on 08/15/2022 9:40:47 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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Freepers are some of the most knowledgeable and innovative people on the planet:)

Witty, too.

19 posted on 08/15/2022 1:09:27 PM PDT by Albion Wilde ("Liz Cheney, Trump’s personal Javert..."--Michael Anton)
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To: CatOwner

Oops! You said the quiet part out loud! 😉😄


20 posted on 08/15/2022 2:18:53 PM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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