Hello everyone, this is Klaus.
Previously, we've mentioned a writer named Liu Liu,
who, after Wuhan’s lockdown, penned the TV drama "Together" to praise China’s efforts.
After Shanghai was closed, she visited the city’s fangcang shelter hospitals,
and exclaimed that in the fight against COVID, China put the rest of the world to shame,
never thinking that one day she would get a taste of tyranny herself.
Her patriotic parents were loyal to the party and obedient to the government.
They stayed home for 17 days and never went outside for groceries.
They only went downstairs to get tested for COVID.
But they still got infected in the end,
and were about to be forcibly removed from their home.
The old couple cried, not wanting to go.
New COVID variants’ incubation periods are getting shorter and shorter.
The incubation period of the Delta strain is about four days.
The Omicron strain can usually be detected two days after entering a host.
That is to say, if you’re COVID negative for several days in a row,
and you’ve stayed home and not come into contact with anyone,
then it’s impossible for you to get infected.
It makes no sense to get tested on a daily basis when you're already confined to your home.
The old couple were confined at home for 17 days and only went outside to get tested.
So they only would’ve been infected during the tests.
There are other cases like this.
There is a neighborhood in Shanghai with zero positive cases.
The area was in lockdown. No residents could enter or leave.
Medical workers were conducting door-to-door tests
every single day until the area had positive cases,
at which point everybody in the neighborhood was forcibly removed.
The aim of the test is, seemingly, to produce positive cases on purpose.
In some places, people even get tested multiple times a day.
Miao Xiaohui, vice president and director of the epidemic division at Shanghai Changzheng Hospital, said,
“Testing twice a day completely goes against the most basic scientific common sense.”
China likes to conduct nationwide mass testing these days,
whether it's rainy or sunny, and large crowds gather in one place to get tested,
making social distancing impossible to maintain.
You have to take off your mask to get tested.
But the medical staff are well protected by airtight PPE.
China’s technology is so advanced that it has invented sample collecting robots.
But... Excuse me, what does this remind you of?
China calls it “pitching a tent to protect medical workers". Very subtle.
Medical workers are protected. All right. But you get tons of people to lick this thing?
Why do people have to get tested together without protective gear?
Also, China’s COVID testing has reached the point of absurdity.
They’re doing it on sheep, on fish, on dogs, etc.
They’re even forcing it on someone whose whole body is in plaster and who can’t walk.
There are news stories about volunteers carrying the infirm elderly out of the house for COVID testing,
about medical workers traveling by boat to an island to get a 99-year-old man tested there.
These medical workers have set foot on what otherwise would’ve been a COVID-free island.
However, such stories are always framed by China's state propaganda machine as inspiring tales full of positivity.
Many people, fed up with propaganda, refuse to get tested.
Many people put a sign on the door saying that they’ve self-tested negative
so they refuse the neighborhood’s mass-testing.
Wang Sicong, who has been banned online, once wrote,
“I will never go downstairs to get tested again.”
Some residents, emboldened by Wang’s post, have rioted,
forcing the neighborhood committee to agree to antigen self-tests.
In fact, nowadays, people outside of China can get tested at home.
Each family can receive free antigen test kits regularly.
Most of these test kits were made in China,
and their accuracy rate is as high as 95%.
According to a report by Xinhua,
China exports billions of test kits a year, generating tens of billions of dollars in its export trade.
However, China does not allow its people to use low-cost and convenient test kits,
and chooses the expensive and time-consuming PCR test instead.
In addition, many places have completely stopped selling medicine
for common cold, fever, coughing, viral infection, etc.
This is to prevent COVID patients from treating themselves at home.
Even those who are COVID positive-turned-negative
have to be taken to a shelter hospital and locked up with COVID positive patients.
Soon these negatives are positives again.
It is clear from all of this that
there is nothing scientific about China’s epidemic prevention.
China is even intentionally letting the virus spread, creating man-made disasters.
But why is China doing this?
There is a saying that was very popular in Mao Zedong's time,
“Overcome difficulties. If you don't have difficulties, create them.”
I believe many of you have heard that before.
If you truly understand this saying,
you will understand why China does not want the pandemic to end now.
Many people think that Xi Jinping is stupid.
Yes, in the eyes of the country and the people.
But in terms of protecting the tyrannical regime and his throne,
Xi Jinping is very smart.
Xi Jinping has always emphasized the importance of
defending the central party and maintaining non-stop political struggle.
If you have difficulties, fight them; if you don't, create them and fight them.
If you have enemies, fight them; if you don’t, create them and fight them.
If there is a pandemic, fight it; if there isn’t, create one and fight it.
Above is the communist party’s way of thinking. Since the day it was established, the Chinese Communist Party
has always diverted internal conflicts via non-stop political struggle.
In its early days, Wang Ming, the General Secretary of the CCP Central Committee, was defeated.
Later, the Kuomintang was defeated. Would China be peaceful after that?
No, immediately began the purge, the anti-rightist crackdown, the Cultural Revolution, etc.
Even if there were no external enemies, internal enemies had to be forcibly uncovered,
so that internal conflicts could be diverted.
Launching one political movement after another,
leaping from one victory to the next victory,
the communists have tortured the people non-stop, and the people have grown used to it.
Xi Jinping knows that very well.
Despite his “zero policy” being questioned by society,
on May 5, Xi Jinping once again set the tone,
“We will insist on the dynamic zero policy and resolutely oppose all
who dare to distort, doubt or deny our country's epidemic prevention measures.”
He was blatantly daring you to rebel against him,
daring people to go against the central party and himself.
Only by not giving up the “zero policy”, creating and then fighting a pandemic
can we move “from one victory to another”,
can China exclaim that it has won again and keeps on winning.
In the past two years, since the start of the outbreak, the CCP has seen clearly that
the pandemic can be used to numb the people, trick them into believing in China’s system,
make the Chinese people more patriotic, and greatly increase the authority of the government.
The “zero policy” is a test of the Chinese people's servility and their bottom line.
This virus is indeed a great benefactor to the Chinese Communist Party!
Besides, Xi has a more realistic reason for the “zero policy”: the 20th National Congress.
Undoubtedly, with the “zero policy”, Xi has tightened his grip on the whole country.
China’s already meager rule of law has been completely destroyed.
The pandemic has become an excuse for arbitrary arrests, an excuse for forcible entry into people's homes.
Censorship has also reached a new level.
Even the NPC deputies' proposals on epidemic prevention have been censored online.
The Ministry of Public Security, the CCP’s sword, has been cleansed by Xi Jinping
and completely replaced with his own people.
Thanks to the COVID measures, the MInistry has gained even more power.
They can not only delete posts online, but also break down doors and arrest people.
Xi Jinping is now firmly holding all the guns.
Given the circumstances, the pandemic is unlikely to end until after the 20th National Congress.
China's epidemic control has reached the level of a military takeover.
A change of government is always the most unstable time for a regime.
There wouldn’t be a better reason for a de facto military takeover than epidemic control.
It looks like the Chinese will have to “enjoy the lockdown, consider themselves lucky and be secretly happy” until the end of the year.
All right, time to hear your comments.
In our last video, we talked about how China’s big reveal of IP locations backfired.
Netizen cl mark said,
“Those who smear foreign countries are in China, but those who say China is good aren’t.”
Netizen Zhang Ziyan said that “fawning over foreigners” was a wrong expression,
and that “despise the poor, love the rich, worship the elite” would be more accurate.
I think that’s a very good point.
People worship and aspire to be things better than themselves, of course.
But China often likes to play word games, “China” and “the West”, “internal” and “foreign”, etc.,
to hide the fact that China is inferior to other countries in many ways.
Finally, netizen Big Mountain Ape shared with us,
“Real prisons, detention centers, detox centers, etc. are not very bad.
After all, they are official institutions, with a complete system in place.
On the contrary, places like quarantine sites and shelter hospitals
are makeshift, so the conditions there are worse than a prison’s.”
That makes a lot of sense.
Well, that's it for this video.
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