Posted on 10/29/2022 12:04:37 PM PDT by dennisw
It's clear that zero-Covid is now primarily about politics, power, mass surveillance, not health. Its rigid enforcement has become a gauge of loyalty to the president. Defeating the virus has become central to the cult of Xi, for whom it is a measure of the Chinese Communist Party's superiority over the West.
The scene is something from a horror film. Hordes of terrified shoppers battling a crew of uniformed guards, desperate to escape the building in which they have been locked.
It looks like hysteria after a terror attack — yet this is footage from a Saturday afternoon at an Ikea store in Shanghai, following an announcement that a Covid case had been traced to the shop.
A message blared over the sound system that the store was going into lockdown and police were on their way to put everybody inside into quarantine. Mobile phone footage captured the chaos as shoppers abandoned trollies and stampeded towards the exits, crowds fighting security staff trying to seal off the building.
The Ikea lockdown took place in August after a single shopper had been exposed to a six-year-old boy with an asymptomatic dose of Covid-19. Those unable to escape were barricaded inside for four hours before being bussed to quarantine.
Eventually 83,000 people in the area were tested in connection with the boy's case, but nobody apart from the boy himself tested positive, according to the local government.
Fresh in minds of those panicked shoppers was the grim experience of a two-month lockdown in Shanghai earlier this year. People died because of lack of access to health care. Children were separated from parents and forced into quarantine. There were food shortages. Residents were barricaded in their apartment buildings.
This cycle of madness seems to be the new normal in President Xi Jinping's China.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Doesn’t the CCP already have complete power and control over its citizens?
Han Chinese are supposed to one of the world’s highest IQ. Yet they allow themselves to beaten down by this insane Xi. Who is also putting their economy in the crapper.
Who has the better KGB poker face? Putin or Xi?
The whole thing was about control and power.
“Doesn’t the CCP already have complete power and control over its citizens?”
Not enough, obviously. And what is your social credit score? Free Republic membership means you get banned from all Greyhound buses. That you cannot buy butter, only soy based margarine. That when you get a flat tire, the AAA will put you on hold for three hours. That the only tuna fish you can buy is cat food.
Duh.
CoupFlu was NEVER about public health anywhere on the planet.
In that case I’ll become a CCP collaborator like most of Congress.
Only gullible government worshipers thought it was about health.
Not “breaking”? 😎👍
They got the result they wanted
That’s all it’s ever been about: Control. Worldwide.
It’s about power in this country. And the masses fell for it. Some of these fools still wear those disgusting face masks. No self awareness or common sense.
It’s always been about that. It was about that in 2020 too.
It is an issue of historical proportions.
IMO, the outcome is generally a result of the selection of the leader, and it certainly helps to be intelligent.
However, a community also needs a reservoir of physical toughness and the ability to think as a warrior who is able to resist at the first hint of oppression.
We here on these pages like to think the U.S. has such a blend of character but based on the caliber of our current party in opposition, I believe we are, or will face a serious challenge.
It is about “Face” they cannot admit they were wrong without losing it.
This post makes zero sense. But of course, nothing that comes from the fevered, delusional brains of Putinists makes sense... Free Republic posters cannot buy butter?!? Cannot buy tuna?!? LOL!
Also, note how quickly they went from “Ukraine sucks!” to “America sucks!”
Shows what they really are...
It NEVER was about “health”.
Nor were our monkey-see/monkey-doo mitigation mandates.
Britain knows a lot about surveillance states . Britain is a surveillance society almost as bad as that led by Big Brother in George Orwell’s 1984 .
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