Thirty Million Chinese Locked Down in Last Gasp of Zero-Covid Policy
Thirty million people in 13 cities across China have been put back into a COVID-19 lockdown with hazmat-wearing officials back on the streets on a scale not seen since the pandemic began in yet more evidence that the country’s Zero-Covid strategy is a complete failure. MailOnline has more.
China reported 5,280 new COVID-19 cases on Tuesday, more than double the previous day’s tally, as the highly transmissible Omicron variant spread across a country that has stuck tightly to a Zero-Covid strategy.
That approach, which pivots on hard localised lockdowns and has left China virtually cut off from the outside world for two years, appears stretched to the limit as Omicron finds its way into communities.
At least 13 cities nationwide were fully locked down as of Tuesday, and several others had partial lockdowns, with some 15,000 infections reported nationwide in March.
Scenes of closed neighbourhoods, panic buying and police cordons cast back to the early phase of the pandemic, which first emerged in China in late 2019.
Although cases from the chaotic initial outbreak in Wuhan in early 2020 are widely believed to have been under-reported, life since then had largely returned to normal in China under its strict Zero-Covid approach.
Worth reading in full.
Stop Press: Matthew Lynn in the Spectator says China’s zero Covid strategy is a threat to the global economy.
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Don’t try to sell this as a pathway worth following. For us in the west life wouldn’t be worth living without certain freedoms. Doesn’t matter how powerful China or Russia becomes. We are the English and we don’t put up with such crap.
Well, we did put up with such crap until they decided to stop pushing it. We all know this isn’t about anyone’s health; I’m very keen on understanding what exactly it is about.
Me too.
One thing’s for sure, it ain’t about virus…
China hasnt got a war to maintain the ongoing mindless obedience training program so they have to continue the covid hoax.
Speaking of war, President Zelensky says today that Ukraine won’t ever join NATO. Oh well that’s fine. Except that thousands of Ukrainians and Russians have died and 3 million have been displaced from their homes in the Ukraine because of this scumbag’s efforts to join NATO. And now he sits there in his army green tee-shirt and he says as if he’s Frank Spencer that “Naaahh, Betty, we won’t join NATO now” – as if he hasn’t ever said anything different, and as if no consequences have followed from what he said before. Well some consequences have followed, matey. How long has this vile man got in office? A week or two? It’s really hard to think of a head of a European government who has f*cked up worse. If he had any decency he’d top himself.
One possibility now is that the Azov Regiment wheels round and becomes pro-Putin. Anyone who think that’s beyond the bounds of possibility should consider the origins of Ramzan Kadyrov and the recent history of Chechenia.
He is the darling of the UK and all western media- large villa in US, where so much of Ukraine’s wealth has been syphoned?
He got a standing ovation in the commons, must have been a stellar performance, apparently he’s been tipped for an honorary knighthood.
Well, no-one has to use titles to address people by law, so if anyone tries it, I would just say: ‘there are so many scumbags with titles that I refuse to use any of them on principle’.
They take care of their own, honour their own, and spit on everyone else.
In good company then with the Ringmaster of Liars and Nobel Prize War Monger, Blair and ‘Sir’ Whitty of Gatesland!
Zelensky is a fairly standard contemporary politician. Never wrong.
They are hollow men and women for the most part – without backbone, principle or any sense of moral responsibility. All they have is a kind of childish ambition to be big.
“Zelensky is a fairly standard contemporary politician”. a US stooge then?
Egged on by the Yanks.
Five million had left the Ukraine in recent years before Putins action started. Why was that I wonder?
Ahhh, so sort of just keeping your motor ticking over then, while for the rest of us our panic comes from living on the knife edge of whether or not there is going to be a nuclear war
FFS, wake up. Listen to those in the independent media who have an iron grasp on what is exactly happening.
https://www.thelastamericanvagabond.com/catherine-austin-fitts-interview-covid-rollback-illusion-vax-ingredients-financial-enslavement/
https://www.corbettreport.com/digitalid/
https://www.ukcolumn.org/article/the-uk-new-normal-dictatorship
https://off-guardian.org/2022/03/14/10-signs-the-war-in-ukraine-is-part-of-the-great-reset/
https://thehighwire.com/videos/episode-258-the-heart-of-the-matter/
Listen to these, and then get back to me…
It is all the Great Reset- as explained by Schwab complete with videos of the smiling conspirators against humanity .
“Own nothing and be happy”………!
It’s funny – I’ve previously watched or read every single link you’ve just shouted at me; I remain uncertain. I wish I had your iron grasp on reality!
I don’t claim to have an iron grasp on reality, I’m as confused about the whole clusterf*ck as the next person. And I don’t shout.
However, my garden is in a bit of a crisis…
But, thanks for watching and reading. 😉
I am listening to the Catherine Austin fits interview, and although I can see there is a lot of truth in what she says…I do not like or trust her. There is something wrong…does anyone else get this feeling?
Well she can’t be in it for the money…so what is left if not her version of ‘truth’ through experience and revelation .
Like many under the “shock and awe” of the demonic Globalist assault on humanity, I think she has attempted to anchor herself in morality – simply put as a war between Good and Evil to use the binary ‘religious’ term so favoured by Global Media propagandists.
In a philosophical, rational objective and balanced world binary opposites are trite and banal – but our world has ditched rationality for emotion and hysteria and is now being manipulated against reason, civilisation and humanity by some of the most ‘evil’ amoral beings on the planet, corrupted by more obscene wealth and the power it gives them than any psychotic despots in history.
We all know that Wall Street and the Financial sector have been driven by cocaine for decades – and we all know what cocaine does to the mind and the ego!
Are we in fact the hands of megalomaniacs? Remember Lehmann brothers and Dick Fuld (see videos of him in action psyching up his team !)
Yes! I’ve always had that feeling about CAF, going right back to Peak Oil (if anyone remembers that). For a start she runs an investment firm of some description, which means she has ‘skin in the game’ and I guess stands to benefit from panic/disaster thinking; also, she never really reveals anything. She talks about ‘Mr Global’ as a kind of catch-all description of the forces driving the narrative. Well, you used to work in the US Government; throw us a bone! I always feel dissatisfied when listening to her at length. I’m with you.
Reading this after commenting below – I do recognise what you say and need to take it into account – she promised much early on with her shock revelations of the power/money pyramid but now never delivers in her presentations, which remain short, moralising and vague.
In fact she was more informative in the early days when she described the dark intentions of the Central Banks and the Financial Reset in detail .
I suppose her contribution has been overtaken by events and she seems to have little to add to what she has been saying from the outset.
I also take the point about financial interests – once they are addicted the super-rich it seems just cannot stop seeing the opportunity to make even more money in everything they do.
Like many operators her tasty introductions can be seen as attempts to channel the punters into subscriptions( or closing the deal on the time share!).
Yes I feel there is something negative in her. Plus I cannot bear to her her wheezing and gasping as she speaks.
I do not have much trust in anyone who has worked in the financial world, it is an area where people make money just for money’s sake, there is no creativity or growth there.
Edward Dowd seems a bit of an anomaly in that world, as far as I can judge him. Anyway, CAF is not an oracle for me.
Thanks for your feedback, it is always helpful to hear other’s impressions.
well expressed – I always thought when I listened to her that she always kind of stopped short of telling it all – like she would go so far but no further – which is why I no longer listen to her.
To get a grip on reality you need to let go of optimism!
Anyone seen Snowpiercer the movie? Here’s the trailer.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vcGdmh0_toY
It all about pushing the envelope of obedience of the masses.
They want to create a world of obedient slaves and they have to advance that agenda over several decades, with each push of the envelope creating a minority outraged and a majority continuing to accept.
Yes it is – but still a ‘mystery’ to so many who simply cannot face the obvious truth.
Once again, our biggest obstacle is stupidity fuelled by ignorance- the breeding ground of tyranny.
See how many ‘civilised’ Good Germans explained away the early Nazi Concentration Camps ( for Germans as well as Jews!) as being good for Germany as undesirables, communists, the work-shy and ‘subversives’ and ‘degenerates’ were worked to death ‘for “the common good” and in the “public interest”.
German workers were bought off with paid holidays and Holiday Camps Butlins style, Cruises in shiny new liners and new ( very “smart” Motorways)
Both the weasel terms above are in Rabb’s proposed Bill of Rights which abolishes the Human Rights Act by taking some of our inalienable Rights way and hands them to be interpreted by the State at its pleasure!
“We are the English and we don’t put up with such crap.”
Well, not until the renowned BBC told us to
Now the BBC is telling us that Putin is Hitler.
Fact: during WW2 more Russians died defending the city of Leningrad against Hitler’s orders to destroy it than the total number killed in the armies of Britain the US and France.
A total of 25 million Russian soldiers and civilians died defeating Hitler’s armies.
A total of 25 million Russians died defeating Hitler’s armies.
And that’s considered at the lower end of the estimates.
Criticism of the policies of any state of individual is fine. Moralistic absurdities playing upon ignorance are not.
But who nowadays has even heard of the Siege of Leningrad, the Battle of Moscow, the Battle of Stalingrad?
In Leningrad they built tanks in bombed-out factories to defeat Hitler’s armies; in Moscow the soldiers walked to the frontline from Red Square. As for the Battle of Stalingrad, the heroism and determination resulted in one of the pivotal defeats of Nazi Germany and was honoured by grateful people (including George VI).
These absurd and offensive depictions of Russians are built upon profound historical ignorance. Criticism that is not widely informed and thoughtful is worth very little in the end.
Many in the US believe is was the US that liberated Auschwitz, and the other death camps that were deep in Poland. It was the Russians, of course.
The Russians also alerted the world to Nazi slaughters of Jews in occupied Russia and the Ukraine in Molotov’s Note of January 1942. It also described Nazi atrocities against other members of the Ukrainian civilian population:
The depths of American stupidity have yet to be reached!
Sadly it is now their biggest export.
Very necessary corrective!
If Marina Ovsyannikova had tried that in England when Britain was fighting a major war, the authorities probably would have hanged her.
I was quite surprised that in Russia she got off with a fine.
Yes …William Joyce – he of the posh voice – was hanged.
I fear the zeal and fury has gone out of the West, and we now huddle around low-banked fires, telling comforting tales of folk heroes rather than following their example.
I can only assume the comment is sarcastic.
Really ?
A vast majority of the face nappy wearing, ‘I’m doing this to protect others…’, ‘…to protect granny, (but she’s probably already dead from Midazolam, and you never knew because you weren’t allowed to visit !!!), virtue signalling sheeple that emabarressingly make up the majority of the UK.
There you go, Jabby McFlacid, argue that one…
F*ck me, their pseudoscience and behavioural b0ll0cks is turning us against each other ! Eek !
Although Leek, and his various other alias, wouldn’t agree.
Not sure that posh boy Toby, international traveller and fringe member of the ‘establishment’, friend of a friend of a friend, would agree.
Delinpole’s interview with Alex Thomson regarding the Russian incursion into Ukraine is sadly missing from these pages, as is Dr. Sam Bailey’s response to the recent character assasination.
Toby…freedom of speech ?
Really ?
You’re a chuffing tool of the establishment.
Go suck whatever large sized carrot object takes your fancy, or rather, furthers your fiscal and political career.
Whilst I may or may not be the biggest fan of Mr Young, I have the decency to realise and accept that if it weren’t for “posh boy Toby” creating this platform you wouldn’t have the opportunity to spout off with your gob shitery!! You have the opportunity to voice your opinion that others may hear, here. Show some manners and respect and keep it civil.
The last two years demonstrates that we do – that was part of the exercise.Sturgeon has just switched ‘compulsory’ masks on Public Transport back on – before they were even taken off! It seems this will go on forever as compliance levels have been very high!
But now as the real damage of their Gene Therapy to human health is still emerging – but they now have inflation, food shortages, fuel prices and Ukraine as diversion!
You’ve got to watch out for the Yellow Peril
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEy5vIWCJLQ
Is it really the ‘last gasp of zero covid policy’ though? Or is something else going on? It insults logic. So if we’re to believe this, the most populous country on earth has somehow evaded the virus for 18 months and suddenly has what would in most countries amount to a minor outbreak of a much weaker and less virulent strain of what was already a fairly inconsequential virus, and decides to lock 30 million people down? No. Something’s going on. I think a profound economic event is coming down the line and China, like everywhere, is using covid strategically as a kind of war measure.
This could be relevant :
In two weeks, China, Russia, Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan will reveal a new, independent, international monetary and financial system.
It will be based on a new international currency, calculated from an index of national currencies of the participating countries and international commodity prices. [Mar. 14, 2022, Sputnik News].
EU has decided to extend the EU Vaxx Pass until June 2023.
This is such good news. Hopefully India, Brazil and other major economies will join and it will spell the end of dollar tyranny.
Yep. Venezuela, Cuba and several African countries should join too. The transition will be messy though, hey!
Any nation that hasnt sanctioned Russia is a candidate – and thats a lot of nations. Destroy the petro-dollar and you destroy US hegemony.
And possibly Saudi too. No sh*t!
“Saudi Arabia Considers Accepting Yuan Instead of Dollars for Chinese Oil Sales”
A “new international currency”, aka the “~yuan” 🙂
The dollar is doomed. The US is doomed. By trying to suffocate the life out of Russia by use of the dollar, Swift etc other nations are waking up to what the long term plan is. Obey the NWO, or get sanctioned into oblivion. The US is committing economic suicide, same as EU and UK.
It could be that Russian gas sold to the west stops being priced in US dollars and doesn’t get priced in euros either – or in fact that it stops getting sold to the west altogether.
Mohammed bin Salman in Saudi could probably crash the City any time he wanted.
Biden has been sent by demons to destroy the US! And he doesn’t even know he’s doing it
Do you think he knows or cares about the gold reserves Russia and China have been stock-piling?
When the Saudi’s switch allegiance it’s game over for the dollar.
Where does that leave the lonely £?
I think we all know
Lockdown is ideological, first and foremost and communists are hardly fast learners, nor are they practical people.
Has anyone considered they might be doing this as a bit of theatre?
Perhaps, but who’s the audience?
Perhaps trying to pull recent and reluctant leavers back into lockdown
Globally? I’m not sure about that. In the west the covid ship appears to have sailed, or achieved its objectives. I wonder what covid is allowing the Chinese to do in the areas where they now claim to have a covid problem….
Agreed, it’s not an easy one. Perhaps it’s to create a new variant scare? Maybe they are trying to divert some attention off Russia? Maybe they want this to impact supply chains to help drive inflation?
The audience is probably a combination of the internal population in China, including officials, and analysts working on the China desks in rival great powers. It won’t include foreign mass audiences, because who gives a toss about them? Not the Chinese government.
All sorts of things to do with biological weapons and “who knows what about them” and “who suspects what about them” go on that the vast majority of us get told absolutely nothing about.
At least much of the nuclear arms race in the late 1950s and early 1960s was open. Now most of the real arms race isn’t open in the slightest.
Covid left us in the west with:
If I was trying to work out what China was up to, which I am, I’d look at these things.
The Mandarin Empire’s vassal peoples.
“China” is not a collective, and the “communist party” is just jobs for the master race.
Yes – for some followup questions, click.
Yes, my first thought too – the question then is why. Xi is an extremely astute political operator and if he’s doing something there will be a good reason.
Xi is living in a fantasy world where a somewhat atypical cold causes more harm than entirely dysfunctional attempts at preventing it by ruining the private and economic lives of millions of people. If he’s doing something, the chances are good that the idea is batshit crazy.
Yes, definitely
And yet the economic impact of all this has been mainly on the west…
People produce goods for export because this makes them money they need for a living. When factories are forcibly shut down, they can’t do this anymore, hence, they’ll suffer the consequences as they can’t escape the situation. Prospective buyers of said products, however, can and business lost in this way won’t easily transfer back as this would cost money.
I, for one, would absolutely welcome to be less forced to by cheap junk made in China because this turned out to be a money-losing proposition for the people on whose behalf it’s getting manufactured.
I realize that But we are doomed! is the default reaction to anything which happens anywhere for people who believe that, but I’m not among them.
Countries have covid problems when they decide to have covid problems, don’t they? So the question should be why has China decided to have a covid problem?
Population of China = 1,448,381,557
Number of Omicron infections in one month =15,000 or 0.01035865% of the population
Result Lockdown 30,000,000 people
Analysis: Makes no sense if true, but probably China is lying
Break it down by language and ethnicity. Look at who is being interned, and who is doing the interning. “China” is no more homogenous than Europe.
when the media was pumping out footage of people in India in 2021 and stating people were dying, I thought yes but the population of india is 1.4 billion so there will be far more deaths than say UK or even US per yr as a given.
Lockdown – a perfect way of dealing with grumbling social unrest?
Who are all those people in hazmat suits? How many of them are there? What do they do? What’s their command structure?
I am also wondering how much of what they do is for the cameras. Cf. the British army units that entered NHS hospitals “because of omicron” in early January.
Thank you for helping the price of Brent oil to fall below $100
I don’t understand why they seem very keen on being the laughing stock of the world for their illogical and disastrous mishandling of their pandemic. I mean, surely if any country should be demonstrating they’ve learnt something from the last 2 years it should be China. But yet they continue to behave like crazed psychopathic loonies, not adhering to any scientific data whatsoever. China is a mad world where the lunatics took over the asylum back in 2020. The poor public though! I can’t imagine how miserable this existence must be for them, being dominated and dehumanized by sadists.
I despair of finding a nation, any nation that is, top-to-bottom, reasonably well-adjusted. For the record, I do have ‘less bad’ list.
therefore there is a political reason, but it’s just not (yet) clear what it is. A politician like Xi doesn’t do things without a good reason.
They may be the laughing stock, but if so, it’s sotto voce. As they have an array of puppets like the WHO, and the likes of their fanboy Trudeau, I think they’re rather more in control than anyone would like.
Why would anyone believe anything they say?
Zero-covid? I don’t think so. They know covid is not dangerous, probably always have. It’s just theatre. Ask yourself why.
From what I can see, it’s largely Cantonese and Hakka speaking people, and some South Korean immigrant workers, who have been interned.
The “CCP” is in practice the Mandarin Empire, a xenophobic ethnostate.
Even within the Han people, Mandarin and Cantonese are no closer than German an English, and I go in for the Godwin deliberately. The Mandarin Empire has the same basic goals as the Third Reich: they just have vastly more resources and are far more patient about it.
So this looks rather like some of the vassal peoples got some uppity ideas above their station, and had to be brought sharply to heel.
Can I have a primary source for the picture associated with the headline, please Tobes? I went into the Fail’s article and drew a blank, and then when I cropped the photo and whacked it into Google’s picture search thingy, I drew a blank there, too, even with ‘Getty’ added.
Much thanks, mucker.
https://correspondent.afp.com/hector-retamal
Officials and workers wearing protective gear are working as barriers are placed to close off streets around a locked down neighborhood in Shanghai on March 15, 2022. HECTOR RETAMAL VIA GETTY IMAGES
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/china-tightens-covid-19-restrictions_n_623076bee4b0fe0944db5ca7
Do you realise how viciously circular that is, MAK?
When I was sixteen, I went to work for a newspaper in Hong Kong. It was a rag, but the editor taught me one important lesson. The key to a great story is not who, or what, or when, but why. Elliot Carver
https://www.facebook.com/Yes-Minister-25328362256/videos/the-episode-a-conflict-of-interest-humorously-lampoons-the-vari/25950621336/
Sun readers own the future LOL
What is more worrying is that we have western leaders like Trudeau claiming that China is the country they most admired.
@CaptainBeefheart “Against my better judgement, we’re off to Portugal at the end of April.(…)In some ways, I’m hoping that the Russian military blows the plane out of the sky just so I don’t have to watch my children grow up in this complete nightmare. Judging by the future ahead of them, I feel ashamed that I brought them in to the world. It’s a pity that there’s no way to get “unborn”. They’ll hate our generation when they are older and they realise what a total mess we made of everything by blindly following authority – hopefully – that’s if they’re not brainwashed into being total sheep by the end of their “education” like most other people.Hopefully, we’re blown out of the sky on the way home – that way, at least I would have been to Portugal once in my life.(…)It’s getting a bit too late for people to “wake up” now – we’ve fooked it.Sorry for the doom and gloom – but you should be used to it by now…” Yeah. There is a feeling that rather than waste time publishing photos in their media of guys in hazmat suits carrying what looks like garden-grade spraying kit, the… Read more »
I know how Captain Beefheart feels – There isn’t someone coming riding over the horizon to save us, there isn’t anywhere on earth to go to get away from all of it and when you think of what is in store for the young people who still have their lives to lead it doesn’t bear thinking about.
its like 2020 all over again, china sent out footage of people dropping dead like flies, then it was Italy’s turn to scare people to death with people dropping like flies, then it was India’s turn to scare people again, now we are back to china again.
Colour me suspicious
I’ve given up on believing anything that comes out of China relating to Covid.
None of it was believable at the start. A virus that spread around the world, but didn’t spread in China? Lol.
Quite. I should have said that I gave up believing them in Spring 2020.
One agrees. But have you given up on believing anything that comes out of the UK (in terms of mainstream press, at least) relating to Covid?
This is, like, so 2020!!
I know, so much more convenient. I sometimes wonder how the politicians manage to get dressed of a morning.
“Darling, which badge/button/ribbon do I wear on my lapel for the virtue signalling today?”
“Well, it is ‘Ukraine’ at the moment so I suppose the blue and yellow ribbon, but as you are health secretary maybe you should have the NHS badge on as well – but does it go above or below the blue and yellow ribbon?”
Possibly relevant (look at it from the point of view of the Chinese intelligence service):
Maybe by Eastertime such stories will be thought of as dating from the “sane old days”?
uh oh, viruses travel in dust clouds. Let’s hope Billy boy hasn’t started a real one this time.
It is called hwangsa in Korea. Used to get it every spring regular as clockwork, from the gobi I think. Pretty normal though unsual in Europe, nothing to see here.
I am so sick of this covid aka great reset nonsense. Potential side effects of jabs include chronic inflammation, because the vaccine continuously stimulates the immune system to produce antibodies. Other concerns include the possible integration of plasmid DNA into the body’s host genome, resulting in mutations, problems with DNA replication, triggering of autoimmune responses, and activation of cancer-causing genes. Alternative COVID cures EXIST. Ivermectin is one of them. While Ivermectin is very effective curing COVID symptoms, it has also been shown to eliminate certain cancers. Do not get the poison jab. If you want to get Ivermectin you can visit https://ivmpharmacy.com
Demonic Globalist politics or colletrive insanity- what is this game all about?
Why would anyone believe one word that comes out of China? A country desperate for dominance. A communist country with strict surveillance and severe working conditions. No thanks. I don’t believe a word of it. They are too desperate and greedy to lockdown 30 million people. But hey, if you think they are doing it, well okay, your choice.
They know it’s just theatre. Why on earth would anyone wear a hazmat suit against a weak coronavirus?
Why was my post removed for saying I hope the disease goes through China like a dose of salts and gives them a taste of their own medicine? There aren’t any profanities there.
This looks very odd. One hopes they haven’t had another laboratory whoopsie?