Posted on 09/05/2022 4:32:52 AM PDT by EBH
BEIJING (AP) — China has locked down 65 million of its citizens under tough COVID-19 restrictions and is discouraging domestic travel during upcoming national holidays.
Most of the 21 million people in the southwestern city of Chengdu are confined to their apartments or residential complexes, while in the eastern port city of Tianjin, classes have ben moved online after 14 new cases were reported, all but two showing no symptoms.
China reported a total of 1,552 new cases on Monday across the nation of 1.4 billion people, the National Health Commission reported.
Despite the relatively low number of infections, authorities have adhered to a “zero-COVID” policy requiring lockdowns, quarantines and the confining of people suspected of being in close contact with any confirmed case.
Sept. 10-12 is China's mid-autumn festival, the country's second-most important holiday after the Lunar New Year. The anti-virus measures have taken a major toll on the economy, travel and society in general, but China's ruling Communist Party says they are necessary to prevent a wider spread of the virus, first detected in the central Chinese city of Wuhan in late 2019.
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The ramifications of Chengdu’s anti-COVID measures are starting to emerge. The sixth-largest in city in China, it accounts for about 1.7% of the gross domestic product and is home to numerous automakers and technology companies, including Volkswagen AG, Volvo Car AB, and Foxconn Technology Group, the world’s largest assembler of iPhones.
Link to another article discussing the ramifications better than the AP article trying to hide it.
China has Labor Day?
October 1,1949 was the Chinese National day. Like July 4 here
In China, every day is Labor Day—if you know what I mean.
This about a real estate crisis, not a virus.
Speaking of real estate....
The timing on that is interesting...
It’s to cover military buildups and to allow Xi to purge China of his detractors.
Russia/USSR has the cover of sanctions to do this.
Just wondering if they let us keep all our holidays? And what about black history and pride months?
Despite the relatively low number of infections, authorities have adhered to a “zero-COVID” policy requiring lockdowns, quarantines and the confining of people suspected of being in close contact with any confirmed case.
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Centralized control leads to centralized stupid decision making, untempered by any criticism, as centralized planners inevitably silence any opposition voices. The same this is happening in the U.S. with Biden’s speech criminalizing opposition to the central authority.
This inevitably ends badly, at least for the people, as there are no checks on decisions being made; there is only an echo chamber reinforcing whatever the decision is, no matter how ultimately disastrous.
Probably moving a few hundred tanks and few thousand missiles. They are like sneak drinkers. Everyone knows they are, but they think they are fooling.
Sounds like the anti-Xi opposition is spreading.
I find it interesting that after all this time, they still have a zero policy. You see, as Covid has become endemic in the rest of the world and we are trying to move on, China will never be endemic at this rate.
One must consider why? What is in the virus that frightens them so much? What haven’t they told the rest of the world?
Me thinks the people are giving them a problem not the virus
I’m thinking they are trying to prevent anyone from leaving and NOT coming back.
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