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Current Events => Breaking News => Topic started by: SVPete on January 06, 2022, 07:12:23 PM
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The hell of ‘Zero Covid’
https://www.spiked-online.com/2022/01/04/the-hell-of-zero-covid/ (https://www.spiked-online.com/2022/01/04/the-hell-of-zero-covid/)
Imagine a nation in such a state of distress that its citizens were reduced to bartering for food. A nation where women were so desperate for something to cook and eat that they started swapping sanitary towels for vegetables. A nation where families were so hungry that they would trade their cigarettes for a cabbage. This country actually exists. And it isn’t one of the poor, sometimes famished nations of the global South. It’s China. More accurately, it’s China under the policy of ‘Zero Covid’. If you want to witness the hell of Zero Covid, the dystopian derangement of subordinating every facet of life to the crusade against coronavirus, look no further than the country where this virus first emerged.
The bartering for grub and other basic supplies is taking place in the city of Xi’an in north-west China right now. There has been a spike in community Covid infections in Xi’an and the authorities have responded with ferocious authoritarianism. Thirteen million people have been confined to their homes since 23 December. Initially they were allowed out once every two days to buy food, but even that infinitesimal scrap of liberty was done away with on 27 December. Since then, the people of Xi’an have been under literal house arrest. They are not permitted to leave their place of residence for any reason, not even to buy food. Yes, for the past nine days 13million people have been locked in their own homes; if they take so much as a step outside, they risk arrest.
This is the same total-shutdown policy the MSM praised as wonderful and a contrast to what they claimed Trump was doing. They lied about Trump, and now we're getting glimpses of Xi's wonderfulness.
I just wish US media people would look at a frickin' map of China before saying where a city or province is located. Xi'an is not in northwest China. If anything, its a little southeast of the center of China.
(http://www.guideoftheworld.com/wp-content/uploads/map/china_national_map.jpg)
I'd guesstimate Xining or nearby Lake Qinghai, which are well west of Xi'an, as the center of China. I will give the article kudos for getting the name "Xi'an" correct. It is two characters in Chinese.
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Got some news for those who think we can eliminate Covid. The Covid genie is here to stay and not going back into the bottle. Much like the flu we're going to see more variants requiring yearly booster shots from now on. These, like the flu vaccine, will probably be here forever.
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Something needs to be done about West Taiwan.
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Sadder still for these people, they are not allowed to prep for emergencies like this.
They are starving by govt decree.
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Xi seems to be setting himself up for a Mao-like personality cult. In this near god-like state, he must show he is in control, and he has chosen the ridiculous no-Covid policy in which a relative few cases lead to the shutdown of an entire town or city (including trapping people who happen to be visiting the town/city) for several weeks. Unfortunately for ordinary Chinese people, the only way this could change is if enough high up leaders basically depose Xi (if that's even possible, Mao died of natural causes without being deposed).
A side note, information is VERY controlled in China. E.G. Tienanmen Square is know to the majority of Chinese people only as a geographic location, not for the deadly protests. Mao remains a demigod. And example of the intellectual tap-dance done to sustain this is that the Cultural Revolution is acknowledged as having been terrible, but Mao is excused as not knowing what was happening (sort of like Stalin's purges of party faithful in which those being purged asked, "Does Comrade Stalin know?").