Posted on 10/04/2022 8:45:10 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
The question I have is: why the drama? Covid in America has turned out to be a nothingburger. Why are they so strident?
“Social Credit” on steroids loses all credibility.
I used to think it was because the Chi-Coms knew that it was their bioweapon which had escaped, to which they had added considerable gain of function, and were worried it might mutate into something truly dreadful.
But by now, surely they have worked all the bugs out (so to speak) and realize that as bad as it may be — it isn’t nearly bad enough to justify what they are doing to their own people.
Its another layer of official govt control you can’t object to.
Stuff is falling apart in China financially, and if mobs revolt in cities they dont have enough commie bodies to stop it. They aren’t gonna die for their leaders who they also know benefitted from the corrupt system with kickbacks and bribes.
Ask FReeper Grandpa Dave to share his rant:
“It was never about your health”.
Just awful. When my son goes to Japan occasionally, he’s still unable to leave the base (he’s been on a few different bases). He was there just a couple of weeks ago. I was surprised they are still so strict. It’s nothing compared to China tho.
Does Tiananmen Square ring a bell? Actually, it might not, in China. But it’s a question perhaps better left unasked when living under a tyrannical government.
The author must have missed what happened in China TWO YEARS AGO.
what a joke.
officially, China has had about 2mn cases, 14,000+ deaths. population 1.4bn.
USA 88mn cases 1mn+ deaths. population 340mn.
Chinas is #152 of 154 for covid deaths per million
https://www.statista.com/statistics/1104709/coronavirus-deaths-worldwide-per-million-inhabitants/
China has not used mRNA vaccines, even tho they helped develop them. China now has its own mRNA vax, which has been approved for use....by Indonesia, not China.
articles such as this one in Hotair are no different to those in all the FakeNewsMSM, which go along with the rubbish that China is suffering from covid.
China has chosen to further crack down on its population for reasons other than covid.
“It has gotten to the point that policemen in quarantine suits are pointing automatic weapons at citizens”
Coldly, perhaps, I say “so what”? China already exerts near total tyrannical control over its citizens. They the populace all know and have learned to live within ever tightening restrictions, or they are in jail or missing their livers already. So how is one more set of restrictions going to “destroy” the country? I can think of one or more other things that might.
This article is not saying Chinese are suffering from covid. It is saying the people are suffering from the covid crackdown.
I'm with the other posters, this surprises me because I assumed the Chinese unleashed it on the rest of the world. I don't think intentionally but instead, after it got out, they decided to capitalize on the situation by locking out domestic flights to wuhan but allowing international flights.
I assumed they decided to take advantage of the situation and cripple the rest of the world. If this is true, then the government should have pushed their economy ahead while the rest of the world's collapsed, but they didn't. There are 2 possible explanations I can see.
1) This was a complete accident and the Chinese leadership was blind sided by the virus.
2) The virus hits Asians harder. There is evidence that the virus hits blood type AB hardest, A & B next, and O the least. I believe Asians very rarely have blood type O so I think the virus hits them harder than the average american where O is the most common blood type. I suspect the heavy handedness because of fear of the virus is because it is worse for the average Chinese versus the average American
Of course, it could be the government simply asserting power. It's difficult to know in a totalitarian society
It’s interesting to observe the network of CCP controlled governments who adopted China’s draconian Covid policies: Canada, New Zealand, Australia, etc. CCP’s nutty policies were quickly replicated throughout the west. The leaders loved their new found powers.
It was the genius of Donald Trump, and the laboratory of democracy afforded by the constitution, to allow governors to set Covid policies for their states. So here we have a mountain of data that shows that draconian control measures, ie., lockdowns and masking, were ineffective compared to the laissez faire policies of free red states like Florida.
When Brandon was elected, one of the measures of Covid success was how many people were vaccinated. When the percentage hit the wall, polling indicated that it was Trump supporters who were resisting the jab. Eureka! Brandon figured he could blame the spread on the unvaccinated, impose mandates and purge Trump supporters from public life in one fell swoop. Unfortunately, now we know the vaccine is ineffective and harmful. Trump supporters are very smart and independent thinking cookies resistant to propaganda campaigns.
Han Chinese are supposed to be a high IQ people. Turns out that they are crazy, mind numbed robots. I hope they keep supplying my local Dollar Tree Store. Guys...check out the hardware section there.
A new Cultural Revolution, perhaps? Terrorizing the people into complete submission, preparing them to be afraid to set foot outside or ask questions when their money becomes useless or vanishes from their accounts and people begin starving?
Wild guess.
So is their real estate bubble, and their financial lies for the last two decades.
Being used to quell dissention and uprising, there is no covid
I worry that Covid will not be a nothingburger this winter unless people increase their Vitamin D3 consumption. Optimum blood Vitamin D levels seem effective in keeping even Covid cases out of the hospital. Extra Zinc helps too.
Aside from Trump policies and Constitutional law relegating Covid decisions to the states, there is another important factor here that does not exist in China. Despite Fauci and Pfizer political efforts to force people to take their mRNA vaccines and $3000 a treatment Remdesivir, there have been many independent, although often censored, efforts to make people aware that things like Zinc used with ionophores like Ivermectin, HCQ, and over the counter Quercetin, can treat early Covid successfuly. Such independent thought is being brutally destroyed in China. It took at least 6 monts before Fauci would even admit Vitamins D3 and C “might” be useful for immune health.
One possible measure of true China death statostoces was the number of cell phone accounts that disappeared in 2020. I think it was something like 18,000,000 accounts or more.
I await with great interest the CCP meeting starting 10/15 to decide whether Xi should continue to rule. This vote is held every 5 years.
The writer doesn’t make any effort at understanding why the Chinese take such draconian measure. The regime acts like it is frightened at the possibility of a breakout of the virus into the population. Why? AFAIK they have never gone to these extremes for disease outbreaks in the past. What do they know about this one that has them taking such desperate measures?
I wonder. And I wonder why the media doesn’t wonder.
The Chinese government threatening it’s own citizens? What’s new or different about that?
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