China’s plan for tackling Covid is looking stupider and stupider.
Welcome to China Uncensored, I’m Chris Chappell.
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Especially if you want to go online to learn about what’s happening with Covid in China.
Even though the rapid spread of Omicron is making it nearly impossible to contain, the
Communist Party keeps going for a zero-covid policy, because they refuse to back down.
This article says, “Health is the most important indicator of a happy life.
Health is the number 1, and other things are the zeros that follow.
Without the one, more zeros are meaningless.”
Not too long ago media reports across both China and the West were applauding China’s
pandemic prevention.
It was called China’s version of freedom in a Topsy-Turvy Pandemic World.
People said China’s Zero Covid policy holds lessons for other nations.
But now China’s Zero-Covid policy is looking more and more like a gambling addiction.
You’re losing more than you’re winning.
And your inner voice tells you you’re probably going to lose everything.
But maybe if you just keep going, you’ll get lucky?
Your family and friends are all worried about you, China.
And they would tell you so—if they weren’t scared you’d arrest them.
Take Shanghai, which we did a whole episode on last week.
China deployed 2,000 People’s Liberation Army soldiers on top of armed police to control
the borders in Shanghai.
Yes, you heard me right, soldiers and armed police.
I feel like they heard the phrase “fight the virus” and then took it way too literally.
That’s a pretty stupid way to stop Covid.
Of course, they’re not really there to control Covid.
They’re there to control people.
In addition, China is sending administrative personnel to Shanghai to enforce the lockdown.
“Local Internet sources in Shanghai claimed that there may be tens of thousands, or even
100,000 people from all over the country helping Shanghai.”
Yay!
The Communist Party has sent people to help!
Help...Communist Party style.
Like ripping people out of their homes to do PCR testing.
Or pinning people down to do PCR testing.
Remember, when they tackle people on the street, it’s for their own safety.
The same with chaining up people’s doors to make sure they don’t leave their apartment
building.
Or just soldering the doors shut for a long-term solution.
And to prove just how much authorities are helping, they’re making sure to document
heartwarming good deeds like giving out groceries.
Staged, but heartwarming.
And while most people aren’t allowed out of their homes, you need to make exceptions
for volunteers who are especially patriotic.
So on the one hand, you’ve got brutal authoritarian measures for controlling people, and propaganda
videos to frame it as “helping”.
And on the other hand, you’ve also got just plain dumb.
Like swabbing the floor tiles to test for Covid.
And disinfecting the escalator.
That one escalator step definitely doesn’t have Covid.
Authorities have even begun doing Covid testing on
Cats...who are now definitely plotting the destruction of the human race.
Pigs...just in case they spread it to other Communist Party officials
Chickens...in case Covid is transmitted through pecking
Fish...yes, fish.
At this point why not?
and even abalone...because they shouldn’t be so…shellfish.
At this point I wouldn’t be surprised if half of China’s GDP is just people testing
non-humans for Covid.
Now for some reason, people in China are becoming more and more vocal about the Chinese Communist
Party’s ridiculously stupid Covid policies.
But police are here to refute those rumors.
It’s all about keeping people healthy, not about silencing people and controlling information.
Remember: Health is number one.
Everything else is zero.
This past week there was a trending story of a baby being stabbed to death during a
PCR test.
And the police ran their investigation.
Spoiler alert, they said whoever posted the story was a liar and punished her for it.
Police and volunteers are now going after anyone who speaks out of line on Chinese social
media.
Attention Floor 23 Resident No. 2006 We are the Jilin County Police
You have been reported as the leader of the WeChat group chat, where you posted improper
dialogue, on top of being suspected of insulting public security workers.
Due to all of these illegal behaviors, we are required by law to notify you that you
must correct your speech in the group chat.
Cooperate at once, and please, pick up your phone.
And here’s an entire brigade coming after a Shanghai resident who posted on social media.
What did you post online earlier today?
I didn’t post anything.
Then they barge into his apartment and accuse him of having been kicked out of a WeChat
group for saying something wrong.
I feel like the stupidest thing about that whole encounter though...
is the guy holding a cigarette with his mask on.
Anyway, when this latest wave of Covid began in March, the Chinese Communist Party began
punishing local officials who failed to control it.
Because according to state-run China Daily, China’s “dynamic clearing policy”—that
is, strict lockdowns to stop the spread of Covid—saves lives.
“Had the US and European countries adopted the same approach as China from the very beginning,
millions of lives would have been saved and the rampant spread of the virus would have
been brought under control much earlier.”
And no one cares more about saving lives than the Chinese Communist Party.
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