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Beijing grinds to a near halt as China's capital city battles Covid with more lockdowns
CNBC via MSN ^ | 11-25-22 | Evelyn Cheng

Posted on 11/25/2022 4:55:34 PM PST by dynachrome

More and more apartment compounds in Beijing on Friday forbade residents from leaving for at least a few days. "You constantly hear of someone going into lockdown and you have this constant feeling that you're going to be next," Joerg Wuttke, president of the EU Chamber of Commerce in China, said Friday. It was not clear how many people were affected at a city level, and to what degree stay-in-place measures were being enforced.

This morning most of our 30+ staff reported their communities went into a 7-day lockdown," James Zimmerman, partner in the Beijing office of Perkins Coie, said on Twitter Friday. He said a day earlier, the firm had to tell all its employees to work from home.

It was not clear how many people were affected at a city level, and to what degree stay-in-place measures were being enforced. Beijing has a population of roughly 22 million.

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


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: beijing; covid; covid1984; fearporn; lockdown; pandemicparanoia
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"partner in the Beijing office of Perkins Coie"

Perkins Coie is a corrupt partner with the marx-o-crats.

1 posted on 11/25/2022 4:55:34 PM PST by dynachrome
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To: dynachrome
Silly Chinese.

It's just the flu, bro.

2 posted on 11/25/2022 4:56:20 PM PST by SamAdams76 (4,650,626 | Truth Social | 87,755,089 | Twitter | Trump Followers)
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To: dynachrome

Close the border then!


3 posted on 11/25/2022 4:56:38 PM PST by toddausauras (Trump Lake 2024....Go down swinging!)
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To: SamAdams76

It’s just a cold. Uh no.


4 posted on 11/25/2022 5:03:33 PM PST by Shady (The #JihadJunta: "We are now a nation of Men, Not of Laws. You are not as equal as we are...")
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To: dynachrome

The Chinese spies should send pictures of packed American stores and concerts to their Beijing handlers.


5 posted on 11/25/2022 5:08:55 PM PST by Brian Griffin
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To: Shady

Just the flu, bro.


6 posted on 11/25/2022 5:09:15 PM PST by SamAdams76 (4,650,626 | Truth Social | 87,755,089 | Twitter | Trump Followers)
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To: dynachrome

“...partner in the Beijing office of Perkins Coie...”

So, the next “Pee Trump” story comes from Peking, not Moscow?


7 posted on 11/25/2022 5:15:05 PM PST by VanShuyten ("...that all the donkeys were dead. I know nothing as to the fate of the less valuable animals)
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To: VanShuyten

I hear Xi is the PeeKing.


8 posted on 11/25/2022 5:22:49 PM PST by Uncle Miltie (Dumpster Fire Country.)
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To: dynachrome

You might think the CCP wants people to die from COVID-19.

If they really cared about the people, they’d give them the hydroxychloriquine or Ivermectin cocktails.

Maybe they don’t because it would be an admission to the world that they work.


9 posted on 11/25/2022 5:25:34 PM PST by WASCWatch ( WASC)
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To: dynachrome
The number of businesses closed/blocked off in Shanghai is staggering.


10 posted on 11/25/2022 5:56:00 PM PST by gunsequalfreedom (ui)
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To: SamAdams76

If CNBC says it and the Communist Chinese say it, well, darn it, it’s gotta be true.🤪


11 posted on 11/25/2022 6:40:20 PM PST by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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--- "...city battles Covid with more lockdowns..."

Chinese Communists -- and, yeah, Perkins Coie too -- are hyping the "more lockdown" theme daily now and in multiple "news" outlets. Almost as if they are hoping their little "falling down dead" videos which started the whole hysteria might work again. And never mind about all the vaccinated falling down dead videos, which are "safe and effective."

But wait! What's behind curtain number two?

As of almost THREE Years into the deadly, awful, rampaging pandemic, we learn of China:

Confirmed Cases 3,449,676

Deaths 15,885

The CFR rate is ( 15,885 / 3,449,676 ) x 100 = 0.46 percent over almost three years. Divide by three, more or less, for an annual rate.

The China mortality rate is ( 15,885 / 1,425,858,169 population ) x 100 = 0.0011 percent.

Sources: https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/region/china and https://worldpopulationreview.com/countries/china-population

No wonder the media don't want to do any real reporting. Rather repeat "...city battles Covid with more lockdowns..."

Rinse and repeat. Come on, folks! Money see, monkey do! More lockdowns! Battles! This is war!

Because a 0.0011 percent mortality rate after almost htree years is just not very impressive.

12 posted on 11/25/2022 6:42:24 PM PST by Worldtraveler once upon a time (Degrow Government)
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To: gunsequalfreedom

photo.....

“Emergency. Emergency. Everybody to get from street.”
-—The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming (1966 film)


13 posted on 11/25/2022 6:42:37 PM PST by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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photo of deserted street....

Could just be the cinema district. Article elsewhere said a number of movies flopped and lost a fortune (despite Top Gun Maverick):
“Blacklight”,”Morbius” and “Moonfall.” The latter cost a bloated $150 million to make and earned just $44 million worldwide.

Other movies weren’t total disasters but underwhelmed, such as the “Fantastic Beasts” movie, “The Secrets of Dumbledore,” the lowest-grossing “Harry Potter”-related movie in the franchise yet, and cost a hefty $200 million to produce.


14 posted on 11/25/2022 6:51:24 PM PST by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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To: dynachrome

Die,
Mookabookers


15 posted on 11/25/2022 7:45:17 PM PST by Joe Boucher (Kimber .45 )
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To: SamAdams76

‘Silly Chinese.’

but but but I read all the time on this very forum how smart asians are...


16 posted on 11/25/2022 7:58:39 PM PST by IrishBrigade
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To: Shady

‘Uh no.’

uh pray tell, then, what it is, and be specific, don’t dissemble...

tell us how masks and social distancing saved us all, if you believe so...


17 posted on 11/25/2022 8:01:00 PM PST by IrishBrigade
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To: dynachrome

Nothing about this “pandemic” and especially the Chinese response has added up since ever. There must be a dimension still hidden from us.


18 posted on 11/25/2022 9:10:46 PM PST by JustaTech (A mind is a terrible thing)
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To: Worldtraveler once upon a time
More and more apartment compounds in Beijing on Friday forbade residents from leaving for at least a few days.

If you believe, as I do, that the Chinese took advantage of a mistake at their lab and let loose the virus on the rest of the world, then this is the most puzzling aspect of their virus protocol.

If it were me, I would have crippled the rest of the worlds economies while advancing China's.

Instead, they seem to be crippling their own economy while the rest of the world's are recovering.

I can only assume they are using this as an opportunity to tighten their grip on their citizens

19 posted on 11/25/2022 9:55:25 PM PST by ProudGOP
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Instead, they seem to be crippling their own economy while the rest of the world's are recovering. I can only assume they are using this as an opportunity to tighten their grip on their citizens

Seems like it. Xi is paranoid. So he is consolidating power in his country right now.

20 posted on 11/25/2022 9:57:27 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
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