Shanghai starts China’s biggest COVID-19 lockdown in 2 years

[mountaineer]

Shanghai starts China’s biggest COVID-19 lockdown in 2 years
March 28, 2022

BEIJING (AP) — China began its most extensive coronavirus lockdown in two years Monday to conduct mass testing and control a growing outbreak in Shanghai as questions are raised about the economic toll of the nation’s “zero-COVID” strategy.

Shanghai, China’s financial capital and largest city with 26 million people, had managed its smaller previous outbreaks with limited lockdowns of housing compounds and workplaces where the virus was spreading.

But the citywide lockdown that will be conducted in two phases will be China’s most extensive since the central city of Wuhan, where the virus was first detected in late 2019, confined its 11 million people to their homes for 76 days in early 2020. Millions more have been kept in lockdown since then. ...

Residents will be required to stay home and deliveries will be left at checkpoints to ensure there is no contact with the outside world. Offices and all businesses not considered essential will be closed and public transport suspended.  ...

Associated Press
 1440 reports the country's largest city, home to 26 million residents, reported roughly 3,500 new cases Sunday—though all but 50 were asymptomatic. This is insanity.

[mountaineer]

Blaming it on the latest "variant":

    28 March 2022
Will Omicron finally overpower China’s COVID defences?
The country needs to control the virus until it has boosted vaccination rates in elderly people and reinforced the health-care system.
    Dyani Lewis

All eyes are on China as it attempts to quash its largest COVID-19 outbreaks since the early days of the pandemic. More than 62,000 people across all 31 of its provinces are infected, most of them with the fast-spreading BA.2 Omicron variant.

The outbreaks have plunged tens of millions of people into lockdown. President Xi Jinping announced earlier this month that China would stick to its ‘dynamic zero-COVID strategy’, which aims to stamp out infections and prevent the virus from spreading through communities. This policy now stands in contrast to a global trend towards easing restrictions and attempting to co-exist with the circulating virus. ...

But others say that China needs to brace itself for a growing outbreak. New infections are edging towards 6,000 confirmed cases a day. “It’s growing quickly — I think it’s out of control now,” says Michael Osterholm, an infectious-diseases epidemiologist at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. Case numbers are unlikely to come back down to zero, he says, and trying to keep the virus suppressed would require such severe restrictions that “it surely will bring down their economy”.

If Omicron runs out of control, the effects could be devastating — and similar to the current outbreak in Hong Kong, where deaths have surged and hospitals are overwhelmed. ...

Nature


In some parts of China, barricades have been set up around communities with high numbers of COVID-19 cases.Credit: Kevin Frayer/Getty

[Kamaji]

Shanghai starts China’s biggest COVID-19 lockdown in 2 years
March 28, 2022Associated Press
 1440 reports the country's largest city, home to 26 million residents, reported roughly 3,500 new cases Sunday—though all but 50 were asymptomatic. This is insanity.

It's utter insanity; but it's what the democrats would desperately like to do to us here.

[mountaineer]

It's utter insanity; but it's what the democrats would desperately like to do to us here.

Undoubtedly. Given Fraudci's latest pronouncements, it's just a matter of time - and soon.

[mountaineer]

Why are Shanghai’s COVID infections nearly all asymptomatic?
    By David Stanway | Reuters

SHANGHAI — Epidemiologists examining the biggest Chinese outbreak of COVID-19 in two years are trying to ascertain why the proportion of asymptomatic cases is so high, and what it could mean for China’s future containment strategy. ...

The lack of symptomatic infections in the country and the very low number of deaths — only two related to COVID this year — has raised hopes that China can achieve a “soft landing” when it eases “dynamic clearance” restrictions as it refers to a policy of lockdowns and mandatory testing. ...

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  It's China. Maybe healthy asymptomatic people are being told they have the latest Covid variant just because the government wants to justify more oppression?

[Kamaji]

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  It's China. Maybe healthy asymptomatic people are being told they have the latest Covid variant just because the government wants to justify more oppression?

That is such a stupid question - not the poster, @mountaineer is not the subject of that statement - they're asymptomatic because the covid-19 virus has modified its virulence to accommodate greater infectiousness; it's what virii do.  It shouldn't surprise anyone other than an idiot - which is why, I suppose, most leftists are so surprised by it.

[mountaineer]

If there is a new variant, it certainly seems to be inconsequential if no one experiences any symptoms.

[Kamaji]

If there is a new variant, it certainly seems to be inconsequential if no one experiences any symptoms.

It's a middle-of-the-road flu.

[DefiantMassRINO]

It must be bad if the Chi-coms are letting the news out.  It must be too big to hide from the world.

All the more reason to repatriate our supply chains ASAP.

[Right_in_Virginia]

Here we go ..... right on schedule.

Mail-in ballots .......  here they come.

[DefiantMassRINO]

Mail-in ballots are soooooooooooo 2020.

How about text-in ballots, like American Idol uses?

Sealing the mail-in ballots poses a potentially fatal papercut risk, exposes voters to possibly toxic glue, and places an undo burden on voters to put them in a mailbox.

Plus text-in ballots circumvent the US Postal Service run by a Trump cronie.  What are the chances the US Postal Service "consolidates" operations by closing post offices and removing mailboxes from predominately poor and minority neighborhoods prior to the midterms?

It's a terrible idea that's got legs.

[Kamaji]

Mail-in ballots are soooooooooooo 2020.

How about text-in ballots, like American Idol uses?

Sealing the mail-in ballots poses a potentially fatal papercut risk, exposes voters to possibly toxic glue, and places an undo burden on voters to put them in a mailbox.

Plus text-in ballots circumvent the US Postal Service run by a Trump cronie.

It's a terrible idea with legs.

[mountaineer]

Mail-in ballots .......  here they come.

Already being sent out in Pennsylvania.

[GtHawk]

Mail-in ballots are soooooooooooo 2020.

How about text-in ballots, like American Idol uses?

Sealing the mail-in ballots poses a potentially fatal papercut risk, exposes voters to possibly toxic glue, and places an undo burden on voters to put them in a mailbox.

Plus text-in ballots circumvent the US Postal Service run by a Trump cronie.  What are the chances the US Postal Service "consolidates" operations by closing post offices and removing mailboxes from predominately poor and minority neighborhoods prior to the midterms?

It's a terrible idea that's got legs.

Well I'll tell you that during the last lockdown when there was an election we went in to cast ballots in person and we had to wait in a long line because people, just like us, no longer trusted the integrity of absentee ballots.

[mountaineer]

An American working in Shanghai is posting updates on tw*tter. Here's a sample:

Jared T Nelson
@Jaredtnelson
Day 22 of my Shanghai Covid lockdown
As we feared yesterday, we have new restrictions
Before we were allowed to leave our building (but not community) to get deliveries - no more; now we are not allowed out of our apartment door
4:46 AM · Apr 9, 2022·

Each day 2 volunteers from each building are allowed out to collect deliveries for the whole building (I’m a volunteer)
We have to wear the full white suit during the process - mine was just delivered to me - and we only have a 2 hour window in the afternoon

If you have a delivery in the morning, for example of meat (if you are lucky enough to get that), it will sit at the gate until it is our time in the afternoon to get the delivery. The temperature in Shanghai right now, at 5 pm, is 80 F

Last night they took several of the Covid+ people from our community to a central quarantine site
From what we’ve heard, they didn’t arrive until 2 am and the conditions there are awful - no showers, portable toilets only, no hot water, and of course no privacy

More at https://twitter.com/Jaredtnelson

[Kamaji]

An American working in Shanghai is posting updates on tw*tter. Here's a sample:
More at https://twitter.com/Jaredtnelson

And y'all just know that the democrats are salivating at the chance of imposing exactly the same sort of fascist nonsense on us.

[mountaineer]

Shanghai to ease lockdown following additional mass testing
By Rich Calder   
April 9, 2022 9:13am

Lockdown restrictions in China’s most populous city will soon be lifted in sections reporting no positive COVID-19 cases within two weeks following another round of mass testing, authorities confirmed Saturday.

The latest testing comes as Shanghai reported about 23,000 cases on Saturday, most of them asymptomatic. Large swaths of Shanghai have been under lockdown since March 28, and nearly all of its 26 million residents are confined at home, leading to complaints about shortages of food and other basic necessities.

Meanwhile, authorities in China’s port city of Guangzhou said it will also begin mass testing its 18 million residents, according to CCTV. The city reported only two confirmed infections on Friday. ...

NY Post

What the heck. Two cases in a city of 18 million, and they respond with mass testing (and probably a lockdown)???

[mountaineer]

https://twitter.com/MikeSmithAFR/status/1512557720544903169

[Kamaji]

https://twitter.com/MikeSmithAFR/status/1512557720544903169

That's in store for us if we continue to allow the likes of the DNC to rule over us.

[mountaineer]

That's in store for us if we continue to allow the likes of the DNC to rule over us.

I believe the Biden administration will claim there's a new Covid variant that will require - just in time for the November elections - lockdowns and nothing but mail-in voting.

[Kamaji]

I believe the Biden administration will claim there's a new Covid variant that will require - just in time for the November elections - lockdowns and nothing but mail-in voting.

Agreed.

[Kamaji]

China leading citizens to jump from balconies in quest to achieve ‘COVID Zero’

By Steven W. Mosher   
April 9, 2022

For over two weeks the financial capital of China, Shanghai, has been locked down tight. Some 26 million people languish in their apartments, staring at their now-empty refrigerators, unable to set foot outside to forage for food for fear of arrest and incarceration.

Foreigners are in the same predicament, as one complained on Twitter:

Day 16 of our COVID lockdown in Shanghai today and food is the key thing on people’s minds. We aren’t allowed to leave home so delivery is the only way I was up at 6 am yesterday trying to get any kind of delivery but nothing was available all day. So far, same results today

Yet the homebound are the lucky ones. 

The unlucky ones are those who test positive for COVID each day, like the 17,077 Shanghainese who did on Wednesday. Symptomatic or not — and nine out of 10 show no signs of illness — they are hauled off to hastily erected quarantine camps.

The Shanghai lockdown, the largest since the first Wuhan lockdown two years ago, is China’s latest attempt to achieve COVID Zero. An army of health care workers, some 38,000 in all, have been sent to Shanghai, with instructions to completely stamp out the coronavirus within the city. They are frantically testing and retesting everyone.

*    Unable to protest their lock-up any other way, people have taken to venting their anger by yelling out of their apartment windows. Most of their complaints have to do with food. “We have no food to eat,” they scream. “We haven’t eaten in a very long time.  We are starving to death.”

*    One starving lockdowner found a quieter way to protest his growling stomach.  He rolled his refrigerator onto his balcony and opened its doors. The inside is completely empty.

*    Other protests have taken more tragic forms. As they did in Wuhan two years ago, people are once again jumping off the balconies of high-rise apartment buildings. One video circulating in China shows a couple falling to their deaths. The husband was said to be distraught because the lockdown had cost him his business.

*  *  *

Source:  https://nypost.com/2022/04/09/how-china-brutalizes-its-people-to-try-to-achieve-covid-zero/

[Kamaji]

The Chinese government is inhumane.  And this is what liberals/progs want to do to us here.

[Smokin Joe]

The Chinese government is inhumane.  And this is what liberals/progs want to do to us here.

They have already done it. The numbers of small businesses which are gone, not to recover from COVID are huge, and while owners may not have jumped off balconies, iirc, the suicide rate is up, too.

[Right_in_Virginia]

"Food riots in Pudong Shanghai. Crazy crisis management. People are starving in one of the richest city of the world."  (Video)

https://mobile.twitter.com/tofoli/status/1510837144037691392