Exactly three years ago, the first known covid cases were spreading quietly in Wuhan, the city of 11 million in central China that would become ground zero for the pandemic. A month later, in January 2020, the government placed the whole city under lockdown; people were allowed to leave their homes to buy groceries only every few days. This first covid lockdown was in place for two-and-a-half months, but its impact lasted far longer. The Wuhan response worked — caseloads and deaths dropped — and it became the model for China’s infamous “zero-covid” strategy to control the pandemic.
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People in the Chinese manufacturing hub of Guangzhou clashed with white hazmat-suited riot police on Tuesday night, online videos showed, the latest in a string of protests that escalated over the weekend over stringent Covid-19 lockdowns.
The clashes, which follow protests in Shanghai, Beijing and elsewhere, erupted as China posts record numbers of Covid cases daily and health officials, including in the southern region around Guangzhou, announced a slight loosening of the curbs.
Mainland China’s biggest wave of civil disobedience since the 1989 Tiananmen protests comes as its economy sputters after growing at breakneck rates for decades.
That era of prosperity was fundamental for the social contract between the Communist Party and a population whose freedoms have been dramatically curtailed since President Xi Jinping took power 10 years ago…….
Now, Whole China is a Prison, It’s people is Prisoner
“Since 2017, the WIV has engaged in classified research with the Chinese military and has a history of safety concerns at their high-containment laboratory,” the letters to the NIH and NSF asserted. The letters added that, in 2021, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) indicated EcoHealth provided $1.1 million to the WIV over 10 years from 2009 to 2019.
In America, if you murder someone, the police are going to break into your house and arrest you. In China, if you don’t take your daily covid test, the police are going to break into your house and arrest you. This is not a joke. That’s actually what’s happening. October 2022
At some point, the global community will have to treat Zero Covid as the human rights atrocity that it is and put significant pressure on China to stop. Chinese citizens have rights.
在某些时候,国际社会将不得不将零疫情视为人权暴行,并向中国施加巨大压力以制止。 中国公民有权利。
At some point, the global community will have to treat Zero Covid as the human rights atrocity that it is and put significant pressure on China to stop. Chinese citizens have rights. pic.twitter.com/hrIJ6cxSw5
New ‘Zero Covid’ lockdown in China sparks panic-buying as terrified Chengdu residents frantically scramble to stock up on food – after shutdown was imposed on 21 MILLION people following just 157 new cases
Researchers have begun tracking a newly identified virus in China, with dozens of cases recorded so far.
The novel Langya henipavirus (LayV) was firstdetected in the north-eastern provinces of Shandong and Henan in late 2018 but was only formally identified by scientists last week.
The virus was likely transmitted from animals to humans, scientists said, and Taiwan’s health authority is now monitoring the spread. The researchers tested wild animals and found LayV viral RNA in more than a quarter of 262 shrews, “a finding that suggests that the shrew may be a natural reservoir”. The virus was also detected in 2% of domestic goats and 5% of dogs.
As the world slowly starts to recover from the COVID-19 waves & attempts to understand monkeypox, a new virus has now hit China. According to Chinese media, the Langya henipavirus (LayV) has infected 35 patients in two provinces with mostly mild symptoms.https://t.co/eKMQrVl8Zvpic.twitter.com/ofYIvc9EyE
While the Chinese Communist Party virus, which causes #COVID19, is still putting some Chinese cities under lockdown, a new #Virus has been detected in the country.
In many parts of China🇨🇳 lockdown, it's drones watching you ( make sure you stay in your home ) and informing you that it's time you go downstairs to take your today's Covid test. The end pic.twitter.com/WFAx8lhRzY
#china's Sanya City in Hainan Island (home of PLAN base w/ nuclear submarine) with 2021 GDP CN¥ 647.52 billion (US$100.39 billion), after 3 year battling Covid, today it is under a city-wide lockdown due to out of control epidemic, leaving uncountable homelessness on the streets. pic.twitter.com/3kFBH1fm12
Lockdown in China's 🇨🇳 countrysides Every house's door locked up by wires. Drones patrolling in the sky to surveil the farmlands, prohibit farmers working on their fields. If you got caught, you will get detained 15 days pic.twitter.com/CVcH0dlcSi
China’s latest draconian #Lockdown hits #Hainan Province, stranding 80,000 people on vacation. In the vacation town of #Sanya, tourists are paying thousands of dollars out-of-pocket for a “forced lockdown order.”
China🇨🇳, a giant prison. The wall fence with barbed wire to prevent you escape from lockdown. You can only go out of your apartment compound from the checkpoint gate where you have to pass through facial recognition cameras and scan your green QR codehttps://t.co/pf1ANzypVIpic.twitter.com/KllQVPSwKy
Lockdown in China🇨🇳 Happening at least 50 cities now Police scoring the whole city to arrest those who dare to don't stay at their homes. pic.twitter.com/99wVvuTi71
China is the only country in the world to have an industrial-scale organ trafficking practice that harvests organs from executed prisoners of conscience. This practice is known as forced organ harvesting.
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has acknowledged using executed prisoners as a source of organs to supply China’s medical transplant centers until 2015. But mounting evidence indicates that China continues to use prisoners—specifically prisoners of conscience—for forced organ harvesting. Moreover, the U.S. government takes Beijing’s denials of such reports at face value, while the American transplant sector collaborates freely with China in trainings, educational exchanges, research, publications, conferences, and other partnerships.
The Origins of COVID: All Evidence Points to a Cover-Up
Evidence points to SARS-CoV-2 being the result of a lab leak, and that Dr. Anthony Fauci, Harvard researchers, China, the mainstream media, the World Health Organization and tech companies all worked together to cover it up. U.S. Right to Know has published a detailed timeline of the cover-up.
The research, published online Tuesday by the journal Science, shows that the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market was likely the early epicenter of the scourge that has now killed nearly 6.4 million people around the world. Scientists conclude that the virus that causes COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2, likely spilled from animals into people two separate times……
‘Overwhelming’ evidence in search for Covid-19 origins: ‘BULLSEYE’
Even cases that weren’t directly linked to the market were found to live in close proximity of the market, co-author Michael Worobey, Professor and Head of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Arizona, said.
“This is a clear indication that they were infected as the virus moved from the market into the local community surrounding the market,” he explained.
China has continued to get to grips with the COVID-19 pandemic. Overnight a district on 1 million people in the city of Wuhan has been put back in to lockdown with strict measures being put in place. These kinds of measures have dented the economy, business confidence, and people’s willingness to travel.
As China holds firm in its zero-COVID approach, discrimination against those who have tested positive is rampant. Some even find themselves homeless and jobless. Now, the government is trying to tackle the stigma, but it won’t be easy.