The Chinese Communist Party’s brutal Zero Covid Policy
Has Chinese people running scared
Welcome to China Uncensored, I’m Chris Chappell.
The Chinese Communist Party runs China through fear.
Even Dr. Doom doesn’t do that in his nation of Latveria. And his name is Dr. Doom.
It’s so common for people to be nabbed up by police,
that they’ve created a verb for it: To be disappeared.
This is pretty common for a Communist regime. The Chinese Communist Party has another verb, too:
douzheng. Simply put it means to fight or struggle against something, but it’s so much more. The
Communist Party designates a group as the enemy and the entire society must douzheng against them.
Falun Gong getting too popular? Douzheng!
Christians still believing God is above the Communist Party? Douzheng!!
Winnie the Pooh? Douzheng!!!
And that works great when you’re targeting small, isolated groups.
But China’s Zero Covid policy has changed things. By struggling against the virus,
the Party has essentially targeted every Chinese person, since anyone can get it.
So instead of isolating and targeting a specific group,
the Communist Party is now persecuting everyone.
Which, I guess is progressive? Hashtag inclusive?
The Zero Covid policy is absolutely absurd.
You can’t handle a contagious disease the way you handle, say, a Chinese dissident.
Which is a shame, because Covid would be literally the only time I’d be happy
to see Chinese authorities disappear something.
So the Party is left to do some rather performative stunts.
Spraying this much disinfectant into the air is surely good for people’s health.
So is having people line up for hours in the dark and the rain to get a Covid test.
But it’s not just *people* getting Covid tests.
It’s also cats.
Geese.
Other animals big…
and small.
Because *that’s* what’s spreading Covid at buffets.
Not the lack of sneeze-guards. It’s the crab legs.
But Covid could be anywhere. That’s why they test inanimate objects like shoes
trucks
and Gwenyth Paltrow. You watch her acting and tell me she isn’t made of wood.
Covid testing has become such a part of daily life that young children are even making it
part of their play time. That actually seems like a good way to spread Covid.
But remember, while it's easy to laugh at these things, the Chinese Communist Party rules through
fear. And Chinese people are legitimately terrified of lockdowns and quarantine camps.
I’ll tell you more after this quick commercial break.
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There are currently more than 232 million people under lockdown in China.
This is a scary thing for people in China,
since people have died of starvation under these lockdowns.
But even worse than being locked down is the
prospect of being sent to one of China’s infamous quarantine camps.
These camps can be massive. Here’s one quarantine center with 14,000 beds.
And these camps are often unsanitary messes. Not the kind of place you want to go to.
Especially since authorities have been known to beat your pets to death while you’re locked up.
Not even Dr. Doom is that overtly evil. And again… his name is Dr. Doom.
Imagine being locked up for weeks in a crowded tent with no ventilation.
Although this one at least has partitions and bedding.
Meanwhile this quarantine camp has serious “the beatings will
continue until morale improves” energy.
The way Zero Covid works is this: If you were vaguely in the same area as someone who tests
positive, authorities can track you down, and then literally drag you to a quarantine camp.
Which is why people will go to great lengths to avoid it.
This footage allegedly shows workers at a Foxconn factory in Zhengzhou fleeing the mandatory factory
lockdown. This factory makes electronics, including half the global supply of iPhones.
Some workers walked as much as 25 miles to escape.
Now this Foxconn factory is the biggest one in China, housing about 200,000
workers. I mean that’s like a small city in itself.
And it had been battling a Covid outbreak for several weeks.
Workers had been locked in at the factory so that production could
continue. But people kept testing positive for Covid.
One worker who escaped said he had heard that
20,000 people had been quarantined on site. But management wouldn’t say how many were infected.
Workers were fleeing because they were afraid of getting Covid,
or afraid of being quarantined, or just fed up with it all.
“In interviews with The Washington Post, employees said they were pushed to go back to work before
it was clear they were not contagious, sent to quarantine centers that housed both confirmed
cases and uninfected close contacts, and left without medicine or enough food.”
And rumors are flying. This video allegedly shows
people screaming that a dorm room of several Foxconn workers were all dead.
This is like a zombie movie,
if the measures used to stop the zombies were worse than the zombies themselves.
Foxconn has denied the authenticity of the video, saying it was maliciously edited.
But the rapid spread of the video on social media does show how the Chinese regime stokes
fear around Covid. You see, Chinese propaganda had been hyping up the dangers of Covid for
years now in order to justify their Zero Covid policy. So when people hear that everyone in
a dorm room died of Covid, they believe it. And then they get even more scared.
Foxconn has since said they’re allowing anyone to leave the factory who wants to.
The fact that they even had to say that is not a good sign.
But they’re also offering a cash bonus for people willing to stay.
But even if workers leave the factory, they can’t escape quarantine when they get to
their hometowns. This video allegedly shows Covid workers blocking factory workers from entering.
Meanwhile, the happiest place on Earth was enforcing some mandatory fun.
Hopefully no one starves there. Because I’m not sure if there’s
room in the Haunted Mansion for even more ghosts.
Guests were trapped inside until they tested negative.
How many guests? Here’s another example of how Zero Covid works. Someone who was at
Shanghai Disneyland tested positive after already leaving the park. As a result,
almost 900 people were quarantined. And more than 67,000 people were tested.
You can see why Chinese people are terrified of getting caught in one of these snap lockdowns.
In September, at a Shanghai Costco, people had to flee the store to avoid lockdown.
And back in August, customers at an Ikea in Shanghai did the same thing.
Which must have been terrifying… especially for the guy who was there
with his girlfriend and begging to leave for four hours already.
Of course the Communist Party understands people’s fears. That’s why when an airport
went into lockdown in Yunnan Province at the beginning of October, the Covid guards came out
with guns to prevent people from leaving. People were shouting, are you going to kill us all?
Personally, I wouldn’t test the Communist Party on that one.
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Today’s question comes from Xinnie the Pooh: “Why is it so hard to talk some sense into China/CCP?
Can't the entire world do anything to stop this mess? I know that UN is essentially owned by CCP,
but still, it's 1.4 billion lives they are screwing with, after all.”
First of all, great name, Xinnie the Pooh. But this is also a really important question.
Why can’t we talk sense into the Chinese Communist Party? Any rational government
wouldn’t want to blow up its own economy and turn its people into enemies...right?
Then again, if the CCP were rational, I’d be out of a job.
And not just the Zero Covid policy that seems irrational. You’d think the CCP would
understand that it stands to benefit from fighting climate change. The pollution in China is insane.
And I feel like many people in Western governments or in think tanks look at
the CCP this way. Surely the CCP wants to be a part of the rules-based international order,
because it's in the CCP’s own interests.
Yes, that all sounds rational. But the CCP’s behavior—especially its Zero Covid policy—shows
that it’s not rational. At least, not according to what Western governments think is rational.
The Chinese Communist Party is rational when it comes to one thing:
staying in power. It will do whatever it has to for that.
So treating the CCP like a normal government is wrong.
That’d be like trying to teach a great white shark to sit, shake, and rollover.
The CCP is a Marixst Leninist regime that thrives off struggle—douzheng.
Communists believe struggle is what drives society forward. So while normal people think we can all
get along when we find shared interests, the CCP just sees that as an opening to attack.
Thanks for your question and your support, Xinnie the Pooh.
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