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When it comes to COVID and China, it’s déjà vu all over again
americanthinker ^ | 12/25/2022 | Andrea Widburg

Posted on 12/26/2022 3:12:36 PM PST by bitt

As Tucker Carlson frequently says, because of the establishment’s response to COVID in 2020, the America we knew has been irrevocably changed, and not for the better. All of us can remember what led to that change: News out of China that hospitals were overrun and people dying in the streets because of a strange infection.

The West’s response was to turn itself into a series of prison nations—a decision that, in America, meant that a hugely successful president was driven from office. This December, the reports coming out from China—and the experts’ assessments—are eerily similar to what we heard before, and Democrats are reacting the same way. The question is whether ordinary Americans will let fear rule us again.

For almost three years, China had exceptionally draconian anti-COVID mandates, which Xi called his “Zero COVID” plan. Under the Zero COVID doctrine, whole cities have been locked down, people were denied food, children were seized and, generally, the Chinese Communist Party morphed from a police state to a super-duper police state. Viruses ignore things like that, and COVID is back in China.

Along with COVID’s return comes the return of screaming headlines about “experts” predicting imminent mass death in China:

The Daily Mail: “'They work day and night but they can't burn them all': China's crematoriums 'are overwhelmed' as Beijing abandons failed Zero Covid strategy and experts say wave could kill 2m... but authorities insist only SEVEN people have died”

CNN: “China could see nearly a million deaths as it exits zero-Covid, study says”

Bloomberg: “China’s Covid Death Toll Could Near 1 Million, Study Shows”

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


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: china; covid

1 posted on 12/26/2022 3:12:36 PM PST by bitt
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2 posted on 12/26/2022 3:12:48 PM PST by bitt (<img src=' 'width=50%>)
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To: bitt

BOHICA ?


3 posted on 12/26/2022 3:19:24 PM PST by buckalfa (Kilroy was there, but who was he?)
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To: bitt

And China’s”OFFICIAL” death numbers are STILL under 10,000 since 2020. 1 MILLION is a long way off.

China just said a few weeks ago that COVID is looking like a flu or bad cold.

Sooooooooo how did it SUDDENLY get so bad??! MORE Chinese BS!!! Call me when there are 400 MILLION DEAD CHINESE!!! Anything less is a Lie!


4 posted on 12/26/2022 3:20:11 PM PST by OHPatriot (Si vis pacem, para bellum)
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CNN: “China could see nearly a million deaths as it exits zero-Covid, study says”

Sure, if china is going to starve them to death to save them from dying of Covid.

5 posted on 12/26/2022 3:26:20 PM PST by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith…)
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To: bitt

Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.


6 posted on 12/26/2022 3:40:13 PM PST by DeplorablePaul ("..)
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To: bitt
Go to the "resource" at Johns Hopkins University's Coronavirus Resource Center....

https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/region/china

16,717 as of today.

7 posted on 12/26/2022 3:42:47 PM PST by Worldtraveler once upon a time (Degrow government)
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To: bitt

Over fifty five years ago, and in the military, we were taught that biological warfare often brought the virus back on the spreaders of it.


8 posted on 12/26/2022 3:44:09 PM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar (“No man’s life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session.”)
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9 posted on 12/26/2022 3:57:24 PM PST by sauropod (2000 miles - Proof that Chrissie Hynde can sing the phone book and it sounds fantastic.)
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To: bitt

If China’s got such a big problem with covid, I guess their vaccine doesn’t work.
Why don’t they steal ours? They steal our technology all the time.
Maybe ours doesn’t work either!


10 posted on 12/26/2022 4:05:56 PM PST by Buttons12 ( Do you not think an Angel rides in the Whirlwind and directs this Storm?)
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To: Buttons12
Why don’t they steal ours? They steal our technology all the time. Maybe ours doesn’t work either!

Maybe they have. Maybe Sinovac is really Pfizer and it's only because the "vaccine" is Chinese that Americans are brave enough to admit its poor performance.

11 posted on 12/26/2022 4:59:06 PM PST by Lizavetta
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To: bitt

Chinese? Let ‘‘em all die.


12 posted on 12/26/2022 5:17:47 PM PST by glorgau
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To: bitt

Deja Flu, all over again.


13 posted on 12/26/2022 7:09:57 PM PST by mdwags
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"I guess their vaccine doesn’t work.

Was it ready in advance of Covid-19 and then didn't work on its variants?
14 posted on 12/26/2022 9:33:58 PM PST by clearcarbon (Fraudulent elections have consequences.)
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