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| Protests Break Out as Millions Ordered into Chinese Coronavirus Lockdowns | |
| 2022-09-01 | |
A rare street protest broke out in the city of Chongqing on Saturday night, prompting local officials to belatedly lift restrictions that ran for ten days after the last case of Chinese coronavirus was detected. Almost four million people were ordered on Tuesday to quarantine at home for a week in Hebei, the province that surrounds Beijing. Another 13 million were ordered to undergo mandatory testing in the port city of Tianjin. The southern tech hub of Shenzhen shut down the world’s largest electronics market on Monday, suspended public transportation, and locked down entire neighborhoods for at least the remainder of this week. Residents of the quarantined Shenzhen neighborhoods were told they could only leave their houses for coronavirus testing. Businesses and restaurants were closed and mass transportation was shut down. Government workers quickly erected fearsome metal barriers around the quarantine zones, some of them featuring barbed wire. “The upcoming period will be the most stressful, high-risk and grim period for epidemic prevention and control in our city,” a Shenzhen health official said at a press conference on Monday. Lockdowns were also announced on Tuesday in the northeastern port city of Dalian, the northern city of Shijiazhuang, and Chengdu in the southwest. Chengdu, a provincial capital with a population of about 21 million, said it would delay the beginning of its fall school semester. Xining, another provincial capital with a population of 2.5 million, ordered lockdowns until Thursday in several areas and suspended public transportation. The Chinese public is increasingly displeased with the endless “zero Covid” lockdowns, which are supposedly imposed after very small numbers of coronavirus cases are reported by the always-unreliable Chinese government. Tianjin, for example, ordered mass testing for 13 million people after supposedly discovering only 51 “mild” cases of Chinese coronavirus. Shenzhen only admitted to having 35 infections among its 18 million citizens when it locked down. Disgruntled citizens also complained about the lack of warning before shutdowns, which Chinese officials prefer to impose by surprise because they fear residents might flee districts and cities. “The notice to close came abruptly, we only had a few hours to put our stock into warehouses and lock up,” a merchant at Shenzhen’s tech market told Agence France-Presse (AFP). In Chongqing, riot police were deployed on Saturday night to control an angry group of residents who said their compound was kept under quarantine even though no one has tested positive for Chinese coronavirus in at least ten days. “Lots of people are kicking up a fuss … the SWAT team is here,” one protester remarked in a viral video of the demonstration. Another complained that entire districts have been locked down after a single positive test result. China’s endless waves of mass coronavirus testing are a further source of misery, especially in areas suffering under triple-digit temperatures from the current heat wave. Both citizens and hazmat-suited health workers have been filmed collapsing from the heat. The Chinese Communist Party and its dictator Xi Jinping adamantly refuse to admit their zero-Covid lockdown strategy is anything but a complete success, especially with Xi preparing to seize an unprecedented third term in power at the five-year Party Congress. The Chinese Politburo on Monday announced October 16 as the starting date for the week-long event. While China’s captive citizens can only look through the bars of the apartment-prisons with envy at a world that has long since moved on from the Wuhan pandemic, Chinese state media continues pushing the Communist line that other nations should be locking down more often – and not just for Chinese coronavirus. The Chinese Communist Party’s People’s Daily on Tuesday harangued the United States for not using stricter measures, including mass testing and quarantines, to combat the all-but-forgotten scourge of monkeypox: Related: Coronavirus lockdown: 2022-08-01 Scottish Woman Drank 20 Cans of IrnBru a Day for Years Coronavirus lockdown: 2022-04-19 Don't Panic: China Rebrands Mounting Lockdowns as ‘Static Management' Coronavirus lockdown: 2022-04-08 China Angrily Denies Evidence of Slow Planting, Potential Crop Shortages | |
| Posted by:Skidmark |
| #5 Leaving my chips on Cover for Going After Political Opponents/Dissidents. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2022-09-01 16:22 |
| #4 How's that 3 gorges dam handling this drought? Still pumping out the megawatts? |
| Posted by: AlanC 2022-09-01 15:42 |
| #3 How's that 3 gorges dam handling this drought? Still pumping out the megawatts? |
| Posted by: AlanC 2022-09-01 15:42 |
| #2 Is it still Covid or some newer version of the next bio-weapon slated for the October surprise here? |
| Posted by: NoMoreBS 2022-09-01 14:18 |
| #1 And the left wonders why so many were so suspicious of Fauci. It's all about the power. |
| Posted by: AlanC 2022-09-01 12:57 |