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China admits its Covid deaths are 'huge' and 70% of Shanghai's 25m residents have been infected as Beijing threatens retaliation against Western nations over restrictions on air passengers
Daily Mail uK ^ | 03 Jan 2023 | By CHRIS JEWERS FOR MAILONLINE and AFP

Posted on 01/03/2023 3:25:27 AM PST by blueplum

Chinese officials have admitted that the country's total number of Covid-related deaths is 'huge', with one doctor saying as many as 70 percent of Shanghai's 25 million residents may have been infected.....

....In a rare admission, health officials said on TV that the country was seeing an increase 'in the critical cases or the fatalities'. However, in an attempt to play down the situation, they claimed that the surge was in line with other countries....

...Despite the explosion of infections, Beijing has taken issue with countries imposing restrictions on Chinese arrivals.

The US, Canada, France and Japan are among several countries that now require Chinese travellers to show a negative Covid test before arrival.

Foreign ministry spokeswoman Mao Ning said: 'Some countries have taken entry restrictions targeting only Chinese travellers. This lacks scientific basis and some practices are unacceptable.'

She warned that China could 'take countermeasures based on the principle of reciprocity'.

In late December, Beijing said inbound travellers would no longer be required to quarantine, sending many Chinese people rushing to book trips abroad.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: china; coronavirus; foreignpolicy; sars2
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To: WMarshal
Fury, you are a deranged hypochondriac. If remember you pushing the vax mandates in 2020. You are a true kapo conservative.

Sorry, you are getting called on that.

Provide the post(s) where I was pushing a vax mandate.

Otherwise, you’re just jackassin’.

What I have written is that people need to make a data informed decision for themselves. Get vaxxed or don’t get vaxxed (I am not vaxxed).

n.b. - three other FReepers made that ignorant claim. Not one ever produced a post that supports that claim.

21 posted on 01/03/2023 5:04:10 AM PST by Fury
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To: Jane Long

“Maybe it’s not china virus deaths.

Maybe their $hot rate has kicked in.”

Maybe they’re lying, again.

Absolutely possible! But we don’t owe them anything and have the right to keep them out if we like.


22 posted on 01/03/2023 5:07:33 AM PST by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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To: OHPatriot

We don’t have enough nukes to “totally eliminate” future Chinese threats AND keep a counterforce/countervalue deterrent from Russia, Norks, Iran, etc. Thanks Beer Kringtong and Obama. Trump was the only POTUS since Reagan to upgrade and modernize our warheads.....very much needed.


23 posted on 01/03/2023 5:09:45 AM PST by DCBryan1 (Delete FB, TWTR, GOOGL, AMZN, YHOO, Gmail/chrome. Use Gab, Brave + DDG, VPN, Freerepublic )
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To: Openurmind

At least Brandon isn’t racist for doing so, like Trump was accused of … by Brandon.

🙃


24 posted on 01/03/2023 5:11:06 AM PST by Jane Long (What we were told was a “conspiracy theory” in 2020 is now fact. 🙏🏻 Ps 33:12 of day. )
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To: Fury

When you defend the concept with radical extremism as you do you are supporting and bolstering the concept. Same same. I haven’t figured out why, you are personally invested somehow or you would not go out of your way so strongly like you do to defend it. But you have some reason to personally defend it as hard as you can every chance you get.

Willful ignorance of subversion and conspiracy is [nearly/just] as Satanic and complicit as being directly involved in the subversion and conspiracy.


25 posted on 01/03/2023 5:17:00 AM PST by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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To: blueplum

“require Chinese travelers to show a negative Covid test before arrival”

Pretty easy for Xi to give every traveler a negative test paper before they travel.


26 posted on 01/03/2023 5:17:01 AM PST by dynachrome (“We cannot save Ukraine by dooming the US economy.” Rand Paul)
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To: Fury

Fury wrote: “Re: 9 - Guess I am not following. Many, many FReepers say that COVID-19 is no worse than the cold - so not sure what the issue is (for those FReepers).”

And, don’t forget the FReepers who insist that viruses, including COVID, don’t even exist.


27 posted on 01/03/2023 5:17:26 AM PST by DugwayDuke (Most pick the expert who says the things they agree with.)
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To: Fury
"three other FReepers made that ignorant claim. Not one ever produced a post that supports that claim."

I don't need to research what I clearly remember. I used to mock your handle by calling you "Furry" for your creepy totalitarian attitude. Why should we have to slog through hundreds of pages of your drivelto prove what we remember?

28 posted on 01/03/2023 5:18:59 AM PST by WMarshal (Neocons and leftards are the same species of vicious rat)
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To: Jane Long

I think it would be far too obvious far too early if he didn’t... I am curious if he actually does it, or if he is just lying and saying he will do it. Could be the reports are a smokescreen to tell folks what they want to hear and nothing is stopped. And by the time we find out he is lying it could be too late. This would be more par for the course...


29 posted on 01/03/2023 5:21:45 AM PST by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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To: Fury

I do not think it is a matter of which variant is most prevalent, how serious it is, or anything like that at all. The purpose is to say the magic word “covid” and to activate the totalitarian impulses of the government or governments in whichever Nations the disease happens to land.

Sadly, I think the Chinese saw this last election that occurred in the US, and saw that the electorate did not throw out its leadership. People talked about “red Wave red Wave” before the election. Frankly I think what we saw was a blue wave. Because as crappy as things are being run in this country the Republicans should have put up a 10-seat win in the Senate. But they didn’t. I would have to conclude that things aren’t bad enough for the people of the US to overthrow their leadership.

So if I was a member of the ccp, I would have to conclude that if I wanted to screw with the United States, I would renew the bulk transmission of covid and throw the same type of wrench into the works of the United States that the virus did last time. Maybe that is a radical, paranoid view. I happen to believe the Chinese are in a defacto war with the United States and wish to defeat us, by any means necessary or possible.


30 posted on 01/03/2023 5:23:49 AM PST by Attention Surplus Disorder (Apoplectic is where we want them)
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To: WMarshal

Whatever.

You made a claim, you can’t back it up, you’re jackassin’.

Do better.


31 posted on 01/03/2023 5:26:18 AM PST by Fury
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To: Attention Surplus Disorder

What you wrote is reasonable, and should give people pause to consider.


32 posted on 01/03/2023 5:27:20 AM PST by Fury
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To: blueplum

It looks like the infected Chinese are going to have to fly into MEHico and then come through the border checkpoints like a bunch of Mexicans coming in for a day visit to shop at Walmart and pick up their U.S. government checks at the Post Office.


33 posted on 01/03/2023 5:27:40 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Hey Amerika! The whole world is watching and laughing their asses off. )
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To: Fury

Vaxhole.


34 posted on 01/03/2023 5:36:07 AM PST by WMarshal (Neocons and leftards are the same species of vicious rat)
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To: DugwayDuke

Re: 27 - Forgot about that.

There’s a group of those whack jobs including convicted felon Robert Young, Gemma O’Doherty, etc.


35 posted on 01/03/2023 5:36:31 AM PST by Fury
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To: WMarshal

LOL!


36 posted on 01/03/2023 5:36:53 AM PST by Fury
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To: blueplum

I don’t understand the concern, we have a vaccine.

/s


37 posted on 01/03/2023 5:39:16 AM PST by fuzzylogic (welfare state = sharing of poor moral choices among everybody)
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To: Worldtraveler once upon a time

if you go down the article, to just below Bejing Sally’s little speech, you’ll find “he told Dajiangdong Studio, owned by the Communist Party mouthpiece People’s Daily.”

above are names, “Jiao Yahui, a National Health Commission official, in a rare admission told state broadcaster China Central Television”, “Tong Zhaohui, a vice-president of Chaoyang Hospital in Beijing, “ and “Chen Erzhen, vice president at Ruijin Hospital “

IF you remember what happened to the optometrist who blew the whistle back in 2020, it’s highly unlikely none of these names would be released and no statements would be made without CCP prior authorization.

so this info is being released by the CCP now that the outbreak is too extensive to hide.


38 posted on 01/03/2023 6:01:43 AM PST by blueplum ("...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017) )
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To: Attention Surplus Disorder
Sadly, I think the Chinese saw this last election that occurred in the US, and saw that the electorate did not throw out its leadership.

The Chinese know damn well our elections were rigged.
39 posted on 01/03/2023 6:07:42 AM PST by fr_freak
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To: Fury

Fury wrote: “There’s a group of those whack jobs including convicted felon Robert Young, Gemma O’Doherty, etc.”

“Robert O. Young, an American naturopath, who was jailed for illegally practising medicine, claimed in a November 2019 ITNJ video that “Mandating vaccines is part of depopulation plan”. In a widely circulated clip, Young makes unsubstantiated claims that Bill Gates wants to kill three million people, that international health agencies are “using chemical warfare against all of us”, that viruses are not real, that vaccines are poison, and that alkaline can be used to cure any ailment. The video went viral on social media, which were dismissed as false by numerous factcheck organisations”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacha_Stone

Gemma O’Doherty - “O’Doherty says in the video: “We now in Europe for the first time have scientific proof that it (the novel coronavirus) does not exist””

https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-factcheck-pandemic/fact-check-the-sars-cov-2-virus-has-been-identified-and-studied-by-scientists-globally-idUSKBN2862DL


40 posted on 01/03/2023 6:08:03 AM PST by DugwayDuke (Most pick the expert who says the things they agree with.)
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