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General Category => World News => Topic started by: mountaineer on March 29, 2022, 12:53:04 pm
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Shanghai starts China’s biggest COVID-19 lockdown in 2 years
March 28, 2022BEIJING (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 (https://apnews.com/article/covid-china-locking-down-shanghai-b406df3a0113b9be99273324fec2c12e)
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.
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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 (https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-00884-z)
(https://media.nature.com/lw800/magazine-assets/d41586-022-00884-z/d41586-022-00884-z_20252832.jpg)
In some parts of China, barricades have been set up around communities with high numbers of COVID-19 cases.Credit: Kevin Frayer/Getty
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Shanghai starts China’s biggest COVID-19 lockdown in 2 years
March 28, 2022Associated Press (https://apnews.com/article/covid-china-locking-down-shanghai-b406df3a0113b9be99273324fec2c12e)
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.
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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.
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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. ...
More (https://www.stltoday.com/lifestyles/health-med-fit/coronavirus/why-are-shanghai-s-covid-infections-nearly-all-asymptomatic/article_832b0431-1650-5429-b3b0-5c52b6cf412c.html)
*****rollingeyes***** 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?
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More (https://www.stltoday.com/lifestyles/health-med-fit/coronavirus/why-are-shanghai-s-covid-infections-nearly-all-asymptomatic/article_832b0431-1650-5429-b3b0-5c52b6cf412c.html)
*****rollingeyes***** 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.
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If there is a new variant, it certainly seems to be inconsequential if no one experiences any symptoms.
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If there is a new variant, it certainly seems to be inconsequential if no one experiences any symptoms.
:thumbsup:
It's a middle-of-the-road flu.
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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.
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Here we go ..... right on schedule.
Mail-in ballots ....... here they come.
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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.
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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.
:thumbsup:
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Mail-in ballots ....... here they come.
Already being sent out in Pennsylvania.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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 (https://nypost.com/2022/04/09/shanghai-to-ease-lockdown-following-additional-mass-testing/)
What the heck. Two cases in a city of 18 million, and they respond with mass testing (and probably a lockdown)???
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https://twitter.com/MikeSmithAFR/status/1512557720544903169
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Source: https://nypost.com/2022/04/09/how-china-brutalizes-its-people-to-try-to-achieve-covid-zero/
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The Chinese government is inhumane. And this is what liberals/progs want to do to us here.
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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.
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"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
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"This is what the CCP is doing to the 26 million people of Shanghai Do not look away" (Video)
https://mobile.twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1512855678741798923
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"This is the future the elites want" (Video)
https://mobile.twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1510829144590123010
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"COVID-19 LOCKDOWN - SHANGHAI: The quarantined #Shanghai People are starving, but all food are wasted in Logistics warehouse, man-made disaster.' (Video)
https://mobile.twitter.com/himalayavoices/status/1512557762961543171
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Reports are this is a child
"heartbreaking !!! lockdown in shanghai" (Video)
https://mobile.twitter.com/AhmadMansour__/status/1513120758528155649
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"What the?? This video taken yesterday in Shanghai, China, by the father of a close friend of mine. She verified its authenticity: People screaming out of their windows after a week of total lockdown, no leaving your apartment for any reason." (Video)
https://mobile.twitter.com/patrickmadrid/status/1512600420610363394
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Simply put, in China people are property of the state. The state can do as they please with you. There is no appeal.
We are going in that same direction here and too many are going along with it with barely a whimper.
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Just a reminder, this was the model for our own lockdown. China locked down first, and we followed suit. We basically copied what they did by shutting down our economy.
The daughter of my wife's work colleague was living in Wuhan when the virus first hit. She was an English teacher there. She was locked in her apartment for five months. Food was dropped off at her door every few days. And the US State Dept did NOTHING to get her out. She was in contact with them daily, but it turns out they were using her for information.
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“It’s for your health” (2:20 minute Video)
https://mobile.twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1513485527202344961
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Jack Posobiec
@JackPosobiec
More troops are pouring into Shanghai
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FQD7YbzXIAUSglO?format=jpg&name=small)
7:55 AM · Apr 11, 2022 Twitter for iPhone
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China takes their plague seriously. Load up those cattle cars people.
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Videos: Shanghai Residents Trapped in Lockdown Scream from Their Windows, Fight over Limited Food
https://www.breitbart.com/asia/2022/04/11/videos-shanghai-residents-trapped-in-lockdown-scream-from-their-windows-fight-over-limited-food/
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“It’s for your health” (2:20 minute Video)
https://mobile.twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1513485527202344961
In other news, Big Brother has raised the monthly chocolate ration to 20 g.
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And all of this to reach "zero" on a virus that will simply waft back into the country from abroad each and every time since it is a respiratory infection.
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It's all für ihre Sicherheit, as the nazi confrères of the CCP would say.
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DB wrote:
"We are going in that same direction here and too many are going along with it with barely a whimper."
Seen as a tagline on another forum:
"Peaceful coexistence with the left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is."
If this be true, then what is left to do...?
Is it time for that "New Continental Congress" yet...?
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Any word from Bob Chapek on the imprisonment of 26 million people near his Shanghai resort? Or is he too busy filming another hostage video for the groomer lobby?
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Shanghai residents heard screaming from windows as COVID lockdown continues
By Anthony Blair, The Sun
April 11, 2022
Disturbing footage captures the moment ordinary citizens in Shanghai appear to start screaming out of their windows, after being forbidden from leaving their houses for over a week.
The world’s third-biggest city has been under total COVID lockdown since April 5, with food supplies said to be running low as China’s government struggles to cope.
Video originally shared on Chinese social media shows the Shanghai night skyline, with dozens of high-rise apartment blocks visible.
In the background, dozens of screaming voices, seemingly from a number of different locations, can be heard spontaneously.
What appears to be a searchlight is being shone out of one of the apartment buildings.
The clip is just the latest disturbing video to emerge from Shanghai, where 26 million people have been forbidden from leaving their houses for five days.
On Saturday, starving shoppers were filmed looting a supermarket after only being granted paltry government food rations.
Other footage includes the sound of people screaming for food and medical supplies.
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Source: https://nypost.com/2022/04/11/shanghai-residents-heard-screaming-from-windows-as-covid-lockdown-continues/
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Don't forget, China is the country that liberals/progressives have repeatedly praised for its ability to "get things done" - this illustrates what will surely happen to us if we continue to allow liberals/progressives to rule us.
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Tucker covered this last night in his monologue. Also shocking and covered in his piece was the Chicom's shovel beating dogs, and bagging up cats, and leaving them on the sidewalk to die.
https://video.foxnews.com/v/6303652642001#sp=show-clips (https://video.foxnews.com/v/6303652642001#sp=show-clips)
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Tucker covered this last night in his monologue. Also shocking and covered in his piece was the Chicom's shovel beating dogs, and bagging up cats, and leaving them on the sidewalk to die.
https://video.foxnews.com/v/6303652642001#sp=show-clips (https://video.foxnews.com/v/6303652642001#sp=show-clips)
I'm surprised they weren't turning the cats and dogs into "food" for the people they've imprisoned in their apartments.
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"INSANE: The CCP is cracking down hard to enforce quarantine orders in Shanghai" (Video)
https://mobile.twitter.com/DrewHLive/status/1514662582358974494
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Apocalyptic scenes in Shanghai's rebellion against Zero Covid chaos: Residents attack police after being evicted to create quarantine centres and try to break barricades in hunt for food... while hazmat-clad Communist thugs still can't stop cases going up
*Shanghai residents scuffled with police after being ordered to give up homes
*Dozens of buildings in the city have been converted to makeshift isolation hubs
*Separate videos seem to show police pinning protestors to the ground
By Emily Craig Health Reporter For Mailonline
Published: 06:28 EDT, 15 April 2022 | Updated: 08:28 EDT, 15 April 2022
Story at Daily Mail (https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10721527/Shanghai-rises-against-Communist-Covid-chaos-residents-scuffle-hazmat-suited-police.html)
(https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2022/04/15/10/56645293-10721527-image-a-3_1650013904150.jpg)
Fauci's Dream Team
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I know it's way to much to hope for, but one can always nurture the small, faint hope that, at some near point, the CCP will have pushed the Chinese people too far, and they will, finally, rebel fully and openly against the CCP.
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mysterydondero 人類進化專家
@mysterydondero
I speak Chinese, monitor news from China. What most people don't realize, the Shanghai residents in those apartment buildings they're carting off to the camps, are almost exclusively older, non-workers on pensions. Chinese economy has tanked. Can't afford the $$ to them.
7:55 PM · Apr 15, 2022·
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mysterydondero 人類進化專家
@mysterydondero
I speak Chinese, monitor news from China. What most people don't realize, the Shanghai residents in those apartment buildings they're carting off to the camps, are almost exclusively older, non-workers on pensions. Chinese economy has tanked. Can't afford the $$ to them.
7:55 PM · Apr 15, 2022·
So they're basically carting off pensioners to die?
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So they're basically carting off pensioners to die?
Bill Gates approves. Save money, save the planet at the same time.
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Next thing you know, China will be offering the starving inmates 绿色的Soylent as food.
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Dee fringe minority
@Deeval33
Why is no one standing for the people of Shanghai like they are standing for Ukraine?
12:30 PM · Apr 13, 2022·Twitter for iPhone
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Dee fringe minority
@Deeval33
Why is no one standing for the people of Shanghai like they are standing for Ukraine?
12:30 PM · Apr 13, 2022·Twitter for iPhone
<sigh>
See Logical Fallacy: Red Herring
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<sigh>
See Logical Fallacy: Red Herring
Not really. Where's the moral outrage? Where are the demands that these atrocities stop? Where's the demand for UN investigations? Where are the coordnated food drops into the city?
@Hoodat
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Not really. Where's the moral outrage? Where are the demands that these atrocities stop? Where's the demand for UN investigations? Where are the coordnated food drops into the city?
@Hoodat
Again, see Logical Fallacy: Red Herring. No matter how many times you choose to repeat it.
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Dee fringe minority
@Deeval33
Why is no one standing for the people of Shanghai like they are standing for Ukraine?
12:30 PM · Apr 13, 2022·Twitter for iPhone
No one is bombing the people of Shanghai and a leader hasn't gone on national television begging for help from the U.S. :shrug:
Nonetheless, people of Shanghai are being forced from their homes.
Any way you look at it, more chaos, violence and crimes against humanity.
https://www.nbcnews.com/nightly-news/video/shanghai-residents-forced-from-their-homes-137833029897
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Dee fringe minority
@Deeval33
Why is no one standing for the people of Shanghai like they are standing for Ukraine?
12:30 PM · Apr 13, 2022·Twitter for iPhone
Hmmm, last I heard, Shanghai wasn't an independent country that was illegally invaded by China.
GIGO
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Again, see Logical Fallacy: Red Herring. No matter how many times you choose to repeat it.
Your word salad doesn't answer the question posed.....although it does nicely highlight the moral dilemma.
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Hmmm, last I heard, Shanghai wasn't an independent country that was illegally invaded by China.
GIGO
The people are crying out (literally) for freedom. Have we no moral imperative to help them ---- at least to survive?
I guess you think freedom is GIGO. :shrug:
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Hmmm, last I heard, Shanghai wasn't an independent country that was illegally invaded by China.
GIGO
@Kamaji -- the people of Shanghai are being forced out of their homes.
https://www.nbcnews.com/nightly-news/video/shanghai-residents-forced-from-their-homes-137833029897
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@Kamaji -- the people of Shanghai are being forced out of their homes.
https://www.nbcnews.com/nightly-news/video/shanghai-residents-forced-from-their-homes-137833029897
So, we should not get involved - not even to the point of supplying weapons - when one country - Russia - invades another country - Ukraine - without basis - but we should be, what, sending troops when the Chinese government forces Chinese residents from their homes in China?
In what part of the multiverse does that make any rational sense?
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Please take the Ukraine talk to the Ukraine thread. This one's about the Covid crackdown in Shanghai.
Thanks.
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Some interesting Shanghai tweets here: https://twitter.com/Eventful_China
Big White - the nickname given by people for those medical personnel or covid control volunteers wearing the whole body anti germ uniform.
https://twitter.com/Eventful_China/status/1515438821621616646
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Your word salad doesn't answer the question posed.....although it does nicely highlight the moral dilemma.
That is because your question is a red herring. (See: Logical Fallacies)
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Some interesting Shanghai tweets here: https://twitter.com/Eventful_China
Big White - the nickname given by people for those medical personnel or covid control volunteers wearing the whole body anti germ uniform.
https://twitter.com/Eventful_China/status/1515438821621616646
This is very concerning and if people think that this can't happen in the good ole U.S.A. they're kidding themselves. Those in 'power' here, also don't want COVID to end.
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This is very concerning and if people think that this can't happen in the good ole U.S.A. they're kidding themselves. Those in 'power' here, also don't want COVID to end.
This same thing was done in Wuhan back in early 2020. Our own shutdown model was based on theirs. Just because we have moved on doesn't mean China hasn't.
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This same thing was done in Wuhan back in early 2020. Our own shutdown model was based on theirs. Just because we have moved on doesn't mean China hasn't.
:thumbsup:
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Shanghai quarantine: 24-hour lights, no hot showers
eibei sleeps beside thousands of strangers in rows of cots in a high-ceilinged exhibition center. The lights stay on all night, and the 30-year-old real estate saleswoman has yet to find a hot shower.
Beibei and her husband were ordered into the massive National Exhibition and Convention Center in Shanghai last Tuesday after spending 10 days isolated at home following a positive test. Their 2-year-old daughter, who was negative, went to her grandfather, while her nanny also went into quarantine.
Residents show “no obvious symptoms,” Beibei, who asked to be identified only by her given name, told The Associated Press in an interview by video phone.
“There are people coughing,” she said. “But I have no idea if they have laryngitis or omicron.”
The convention center, with 50,000 beds, is one of more than 100 quarantine facilities set up in China's most populous city for those such as Beibei who test positive but have few or no symptoms. It's part of official efforts to contain China’s biggest coronavirus outbreak since the 2-year-old pandemic began. But it's also testing patience of people increasingly fed up with China's harsh “zero-COVID” policy that aims to isolate every case.............
https://www.yahoo.com/now/shanghai-quarantine-24-hour-lights-002607294.html
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The people are crying out (literally) for freedom. Have we no moral imperative to help them ---- at least to survive?
I guess you think freedom is GIGO. :shrug:
How do you propose we send weapons to the Shanghai people army?
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Rodrigo Zeidan
@RodZeidan
Ships waiting to be unloaded in Shanghai.
Who is ready for some old supply-side inflation?
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FQdWvHmVgAAtwM_?format=jpg&name=small)(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FQdWvHmVQAYOV4S?format=jpg&name=small)
6:25 AM · Apr 16, 2022
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China's Covid policy locks down a city three times the size of New York
China’s latest wave of Covid restrictions has forced millions of people — roughly three times as many as live in New York City — to stay home and undergo mass virus testing in the metropolis of Shanghai.
As Covid cases began to spike in late February, Shanghai tried to control the outbreak with targeted, neighborhood lockdowns. But the city, a center for global transport, manufacturing, finance and trade, decided in late March to implement a two-stage lockdown that soon applied to all districts, generally forcing people not to leave their apartments.
Most people outside China know that Shanghai is big, but few realize just how big economically. The following numbers indicate the scale of Shanghai as an economic center — and may hint at the cost of the lockdown...............
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/04/17/shanghai-by-the-numbers-chinas-covid-lockdowns.html
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Rodrigo Zeidan
@RodZeidan
Ships waiting to be unloaded in Shanghai.
Who is ready for some old supply-side inflation?
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FQdWvHmVgAAtwM_?format=jpg&name=small)(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FQdWvHmVQAYOV4S?format=jpg&name=small)
6:25 AM · Apr 16, 2022
Unbelievable. Not good.
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Will the lockdowns hurt China's economy more than the rest of the world, or vice versa?
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Will the lockdowns hurt China's economy more than the rest of the world, or vice versa?
The article posted above indicates the financial situation. It is going to hurt both. IMHO lockdowns are being done on purpose to control, just as was done in the U.S. It will significantly impact or economy as well ... just as planned.
There's something to be said for U.S. renegotiating trade agreements and energy independence. Let's Go Brandon!!
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DB wrote:
"We are going in that same direction here and too many are going along with it with barely a whimper."
Seen as a tagline on another forum:
"Peaceful coexistence with the left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is."
If this be true, then what is left to do...?
Is it time for that "New Continental Congress" yet...?
We have a perfectly good Constitution now, we just need to follow it, as intended.
I really don't know what good it will do to rephrase the same concepts, when the people involved are the problem--they refuse to follow it.
Blaming the Constitution for the state of the Republic is like blaming a gun for a murder, when the people handling it are the problem.
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"Children going to school in Shanghai, China. Zero Covid strategy. Welcome to a dystopian nightmare." (Video)
https://mobile.twitter.com/JamesMelville/status/1516669369677406208
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Police in Shanghai have drilled doors shut at a restaurant so nobody can leave.
https://twitter.com/WallStreetSilv/status/1518243134689452036
(Can't confirm without someone to translate what's being said, I guess).
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Shanghai: Imagine 25 Million People Trapped in One of Andrew Cuomo’s Deadly Nursing Homes
John Zmirak
Published on April 24, 2022
Steven Mosher is a pro-life hero, the man who as a graduate student in China discovered the grim facts of China’s One-Child Policy in the 1980s. That brutal, totalitarian program imposed up to 400 million forced abortions on Chinese women, often under harsh and dangerous conditions. Local Planned Parenthood affiliates gleefully served as enforcers, reporting women who dared have a third child, so the Party could cut off their food. ...
Now Mosher is speaking out about the latest monstrosity happening in China. For the past three weeks, the central government has ordered a total lockdown of the city of Shanghai, all 25 million people. (That’s more than the whole population of Florida.) The pretext? An outbreak of COVID. No, not some scary new strain, but the Omicron variant — which for most people amounts to nothing more than a bad common cold. The Chinese regime, however, has declared that it will achieve “zero COVID” in Shanghai, no matter what the cost.
So it’s locking people in their homes. Arresting them if they go out. Padlocking them in apartments without access to food or medicine. Secret policemen in white hazmat suits are hammering on people’s doors and seizing their dogs and cats — then beating them to death right in front of them. The regime is seizing children, leaving their desperate parents locked up behind. Thousands have already starved to death alone, isolated, in their barren high-rise prisons. Many thousands more will die quite soon, Mosher predicts. ...
Why would the Chinese government behave so apparently irrationally? Mosher offers a theory. China’s president Xi faces a tough fight soon in his bid to extend his term in power. He wants to remain as president for life, Mosher explains. But he faces opposition, whose leaders hail from … Shanghai. So Xi is tormenting their city to humiliate his enemies, show them up as powerless and useless.
That’s the nature of the regime we face in China. ...
Read entire article at Stream (https://stream.org/shanghai-imagine-25-million-people-trapped-in-one-of-andrew-cuomos-deadly-nursing-homes/)
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We have a perfectly good Constitution now, we just need to follow it, as intended.
I really don't know what good it will do to rephrase the same concepts, when the people involved are the problem--they refuse to follow it.
Blaming the Constitution for the state of the Republic is like blaming a gun for a murder, when the people handling it are the problem.
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Looks like Beijing's lockdown is about to begin ....
Disclose.tv
@disclosetv
JUST IN - Beijing expands the scope of mass testing to the entire city, Chinese authorities announced during a press conference.
11:04 AM · Apr 25, 2022·Twitter Web App
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Looks like Beijing's lockdown is about to begin ....
Eunice Yoon
@onlyyoontv
I was obviously too late to the supermarkets for vegetables.😖 Beijing is requiring 3 #COVID19 tests this week for the 3.45mn of us who work and live in its biggest district. #China capital reported 22 new cases Sat.
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FRHsoktVsAAU-of?format=jpg&name=large)
11:45 AM · Apr 24, 2022
22 new cases in a city of over 21 million, and they respond this way? This is insanity.
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Shanghai Covid Stories: Barriers are being installed all over the city; their purpose hasn't been fully explained.
https://twitter.com/chris__pc/status/1518171958742986752
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Shanghai: China’s Potemkin Village
Published 2 mins ago on May 2, 2022
By Steve Postal
Following a recent outbreak of COVID-19, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has imposed a month-long draconian lockdown on the residents of Shanghai. The CCP has used the outbreak to persecute its own citizens, including through forced evictions and quarantines, and placing alarms on doors to prevent COVID-19 people from leaving their homes. The harsh measures have resulted in food and healthcare shortages and separation of families.
Following a recent outbreak of COVID-19, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has imposed a month-long draconian lockdown on the residents of Shanghai. The CCP has used the outbreak to persecute its own citizens, including through forced evictions and quarantines, and placing alarms on doors to prevent COVID-19 people from leaving their homes. The harsh measures have resulted in food and healthcare shortages and separation of families.
But of course, we wouldn’t know that by reading the CCP-run press readily available in the United States. Instead of presenting the facts, the CCP engages in a comprehensive propaganda campaign that props up Shanghai as a Chinese Potemkin village. The CCP media asserts that China’s actions in Shanghai are benevolent and wise, while Western criticism is a product of malice. Chinese state-run media also insists that the Shanghai lockdown promotes economic stability in China and the world. ...
Full story (https://saraacarter.com/shanghai-chinas-potemkin-village/)
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https://twitter.com/JaredTNelson
Jared T Nelson
@JaredTNelson
Day 47 of our Shanghai Covid lockdown and we woke up, like we often do, to a man in a hazmat suit downstairs yelling through a bull horn for us to come down for our tests
While checking our phones for the new test QR code, we also saw this alarming new official notice sent to us
The key points are:
1) We must stay inside our apartment and not leave our front door, except for going downstairs for testing
This was not a change for us, and it was a little strange to see it reiterated again
2) All deliveries are prohibited during the weekend (Friday midnight to Sunday midnight); nothing will be allowed in.
No food
No water
Nothing
So we are encouraged to cancel all deliveries and ask for refunds because nothing that is delivered to the community gates will come in ...
The result of the new announcement and the new street barricades is that we are locked down in Shanghai, not allowed to leave our apartment door (except for going downstairs to do Covid tests), and are also not allowed to get any deliveries of food, or drinking water, or anything
This was a shock for us because cases had been improving steadily recently
Yesterday, there were only 23 new cases identified outside of the quarantine zones
So the government is pretty much trying to starve people to death in order to make sure they don't get the 'rona.
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Astounding that the Chinese people seem to be incapable of standing up for themselves to any degree.
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Generations of totalitarian conditioning and manipulation ... they don't know what they don't know.
That's why Disney/Pixar/Marvel movies need to be censored to play in China.
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Generations of totalitarian conditioning and manipulation ... they don't know what they don't know.
That's why Disney/Pixar/Marvel movies need to be censored to play in China.
Yep. Don't want the proles to get any ideas. Most of the rebellious have been killed off already.
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Yep. Don't want the proles to get any ideas. Most of the rebellious have been killed off already.
I'd argue they've badly damaged their gene pool.
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Shanghai tightens draconian COVID lockdowns again as cases decline
By Emily Crane
May 9, 2022
Shanghai has once again tightened its draconian lockdowns in a fresh push to achieve “COVID zero” this month — just as China’s biggest city was starting to emerge from a month of strict anti-virus restrictions.
Fresh stay-at-home orders were put in place in some of the city’s 16 districts over the weekend, despite new COVID cases continuing to fall.
Notices issued in several districts ordered residents to stay home and banned them from receiving nonessential deliveries as part of a “quiet period” that is in place until at least Wednesday. The tightened measures could be extended depending on the results of mass COVID testing in the districts, the notices said.
Authorities haven’t offered an explanation for the sudden heightened measures. Isolation rules on the city’s 25 million residents had only just started to lift as cases began to decline.
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Source: https://nypost.com/2022/05/09/shanghai-tightens-covid-lockdowns-again-as-cases-decline/
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Shanghai Authorities Say Normal Life Might Resume in Mid-June. COVID Lockdown Started in March.
China's "COVID zero" policy looks a lot like house arrest for Shanghai's 25 million residents who are only just now beginning to experience glimmers of freedom.
LIZ WOLFE
5.19.2022
Imagine spending all of April and May and part of June under what could essentially be called house arrest, more than two years after COVID-19 was first detected and more than a year after you were vaccinated against the disease.
Shanghai's 25 million residents don't need to imagine. Suffering under their government's "COVID zero" policy, millions of people have been forced to abstain from in-person school and work, in some cases barred from leaving their apartments to get fresh air (depending on level of contagion within their residential area). Their food stock has dwindled and, in some cases, they've been carted off to ill-equipped central quarantine facilities. In the worst cases, they've lost family members to the virus. In a few highly publicized cases, family dogs were slaughtered in the streets by quarantine workers, either out of fear that dogs might spread the virus or a sense that the dogs will die from starvation anyway, with their families placed in central quarantine.
Now, authorities say there have been several consecutive days with no new COVID spread in Shanghai (outside of people who have been placed in government-run quarantine facilities). That will allow restrictions to soon be eased, with normal life likely to resume by mid-June. This is welcome news to the many people who have had their freedoms stripped away in the name of public health, but restrictions will remain in the interim. "Residents must produce a pass to get out of their compounds and can only leave by bike or on foot," report Charlie Zhu, Dong Lyu, and Daniela Wei at Bloomberg. "The passes are distributed to each apartment by residential committees, allowing one person per family to leave during appointed hours for grocery errands…most compounds will allow residents to leave twice in the next four days, for a maximum of four hours per trip."
"After being barricaded inside my housing complex for 53 days, including more than 40 days in my apartment, getting a taste of freedom was sweet and memorable," writes Charlie Zhu, a Shanghai resident, for Bloomberg. But restrictions were still in place: Most people are still limited to "essential" errands, like grocery shopping. Subways and buses have largely stopped running, and most private cars remain banned from city streets. "Restaurants and shops along the street were mostly closed and sealed with tall, blue plastic fences," writes Zhu, noting that the financial district of the formerly bustling city could best be described as a "ghost town." Other residents are more cynical, frustrated by the half-measures and filled with fear that even the tiniest increase in cases could spark a return to the draconian lockdowns they just endured. "How am I supposed to believe you after all the lies that you've told?" a Weibo user wrote online in response to the deputy mayor's COVID-rollback announcement, according to SupChina. "Realizing that China isn't in a hurry to plan for living with the virus instills a sense of dread in us," writes Shanghai resident Cameron Wilson for SupChina.
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Source: https://reason.com/2022/05/19/shanghai-authorities-say-normal-life-might-resume-in-mid-june-covid-lockdown-started-in-march/
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Shanghai still locked down, apparently. Desperate people are scrambling for food (video).
https://twitter.com/WallStreetSilv/status/1529688784823955456
Davos Detainee Poso
@JackPosobiec
They’ve turned Shanghai into an open-air prison of 29 million people.
Not the first time the CCP has starved their own citizens in the name of national policy
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Shanghai still locked down, apparently. Desperate people are scrambling for food (video).
https://twitter.com/WallStreetSilv/status/1529688784823955456
I am thinking there must be plenty of rumour abound of revolt, and the Chicoms got a good view of how effective lockdowns worked elsewhere.
Time to put the thumb down on the peasants.
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People in China's Guangzhou city tear down COVID barricades.
https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1592202219499450370
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People in China's Guangzhou city tear down COVID barricades.
https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1592202219499450370
They should keep going, and tear down the communist party, too.