Posted on 10/10/2022 6:00:18 PM PDT by nickcarraway
China called for "patience" with its COVID-19 policies and warned against any "war-weariness" as local cases soared to their highest since August, days ahead of a pivotal Communist Party congress.
Many parts of the world are learning to coexist with COVID-19, but China has repeatedly quashed any speculation of a let-up in its tough counter-epidemic policies, which can range from locking down a local community to sealing an entire city, even though fatalities remain low by global standards and symptoms, if any, are mostly mild.
Pressure on local officials to stop outbreaks as soon as they spring up has risen in recent weeks as the highly transmissible Omicron sub-variants BF.7 and BA.5.1.7 appeared in mainland China for the first time, ensnaring travellers during a just-ended week-long national holiday.
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This is the kind of grotesque mis-rule which the Gavin Newsoms of the world want to bring to America.
Not this Bea Ess, again.
Xi is using the WuHan disease as a substitute for the Terror as administered by Robespierre & Co. and by Lenin and Stalin. He is using arbitrary lockdowns and movement freezes to shake any inclinations to believe there is any freedom in the system. Without actually killing all the noncompliers he just may found that the Mandate of Heaven has withdrawn for his rule or even or the current Dynasty.
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