Spiked- China has tested lockdown to destruction
Now it’s finally over. China’s testing booths are being dismantled. In Beijing you will no longer need to show a negative PCR test on your smartphone to enter the supermarket, catch the bus or exercise in the park. In Shandong province you won’t need one to buy cough drops – once a marker of suspicion that your family might have Covid. Those who do catch Covid may be allowed to self-isolate at home instead of being carted to the quarantine centre. It’s unclear how complete the relaxation will be. But what is now certain is that the viral genie cannot be squeezed back into its bottle.
But wait there’s more…
China first. Given how long and how zealously Zero Covid was pursued in China, one can only conclude that President Xi and the CCP genuinely believed in their strategy. Zero Covid wasn’t a bluff to fool other nations into adopting catastrophic policies. Rather, it was expected to demonstrate the CCP’s superiority over the virus-riddled world beyond the Middle Kingdom. Xi’s conference address supports this interpretation. As does the lack of contingency planning for its failure. Let me stress, this is about the CCP and Xi, not China itself. The CCP owns this failure. Many decent Chinese doctors and scientists have long disapproved of Zero Covid, but they know it is unwise to criticise the emperor openly.
Read the whole thing.
Purely to save fuel from the massive increase in prices…
It also clears much backlogged shipping.
A song comes to mind for Xi & his honchos pushing the ZeroCovid: Drop It Like It’s Hot by Snoop Dogg ft. Pharrell
Jokes aside, Xi & CCP are evil but not stupid: they understood that things were escalating + there was a huge bleed/image fiasco so of course they dropped it.
Not to mention that another Tiananmen Square would be devastating to their image, much less their long term grip on power.
“…to demonstrate the CCP’s superiority over the virus-riddled world…”
The Medical Industrial Complex Cold War.
Tangentially related to Covid oppression…a Canadian MP is dead!! I’m sure he was one of the good ones who fought against our own Covid oppression.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/jim-carr-death-1.6683004
He had cancer before Covid. But I believe tend to believe a lot of our parasite class got the shots. Simply because, they’d save their families, then friends and the circle grows exponentially. They are already payed off with great government jobs….they don’t deserve anything more….
Lieberal? Wah.
Same over here.. A political shit show where the most caring moron wins.. Our broke assed hospitals finally got a soapbox.. Our media finally got its MAGA antidote.. Our government got to spend like drunken sailors.. Losers, malcontents, Karen’s and the mentally ill all got to be part of the in crowd.. Yes, big government was going to cure the common cold.. Read that line again and tell me where you fit into that picture..
It was all for nothing.. The people who pulled the plug deserve to burn.. Everything failed except the people who said no and they got a kick in the head for that..
Poll spotting
https://www.richmond-news.com/polls/do-you-believe-the-chinese-government-has-influence-over-politicians-in-canada-28120
Too bad about missing zero COVID but at least they nailed zero freedom. Well, I suppose I could go to jail for saying that, and I won’t even have to leave the country, they seem to be set up here too.
Xi was afraid of an actual coup.
The measures will come back.
And it was all a ruse. Meant to suck in the imbeciles in power in the West. Tempting them back to the lockdown bandwagons. It’s still working in California.