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Communist Chinese Dictator Xi Jinping Is in Grave Danger
If you have been following the news lately, you might be aware of the dire news out of mainland China, and its most vital city, Shanghai. Since early 2020, the Communist Chinese have had a “Zero Covid” policy on the mainland and in Hong Kong. This policy involves attempts to stamp out any outbreak of Covid infections, anywhere in the land, by instituting targeted lockdowns and mass testing, to find, isolate, and stop infections. If you believe the media, Communist China has been incredibly successful with this strategy, and they boast of their very low infection and death counts. They also boast of their home-grown vaccines (which have been shown to be relatively ineffective).
This year, that strategy has started to come apart. In Hong Kong, the entire multi-million population territory has been subject to lockdowns as their case numbers increase, due to the rapid spread of the Omicron virus. The Communist Party initially left it to local authorities to stop the spread, but began to intervene once it became apparent that interventions were failing, and deaths mounting. Those interventions have failed.
The situation in Shanghai is especially dire. The Communist Chinese are discovering what the rest of the world has been aware of for many months, that the Omicron variant spreads like wildfire, and cannot be stopped by any means known. It infects even those who have been “vaccinated and boosted”; the only saving grace being that symptoms are generally mild, and most everyone infected recovers. We are now hearing stories out of Shanghai, of residents locked into their multi-story apartment towers and forbidden to leave. We see press stories about people screaming from their apartment balconies that they are starving, unable to replenish their food supplies. Below is part of an article in the Epoch Times:
After four days of trying to order food online to no avail, a man of about age 30 from Shanghai’s Yangpu District called the police. The sealed-in resident wanted to know if he would get fed if he charged out of his residential compound and got arrested for breaking quarantine rules.
His food purchase placed through the local neighborhood committee six days earlier had never arrived, and the hunger was giving him stomach cramps, he said.
“The neighborhood committee told me to ‘endure,’ I have endured four days. All that’s edible is gone except for water,” he told the police in a call, the recording of which he later posted online. “Every evening, when I tune in to the news at 7 p.m., all is portrayed as peaceful and well and brimming with a sense of security. I don’t know about this security.”
But the police’s answer dashed any hopes for a food source. Even if he got arrested, they would just send him right back home, the officer said, noting that the police station couldn’t accommodate him either.
The man’s desperate attempt to fend off starvation represents a microcosm of the suffering experienced by many residents in Shanghai amid a lockdown that the communist regime has imposed, insisting that it’s the key to containing a surging Omicron outbreak. Residents in some districts have been sealed inside their homes for more than a month.
City authorities only started easing lockdowns on April 11, under mounting pressure. But the hardline policies have crippled the city’s economy and wreaked havoc. In the Chinese financial hub that’s home to 26 million people, feelings of hunger, frustration, and desperation are taking hold.
The Chinese Communist Party’s greatest fear has always been social unrest. Since the very beginning, the government has tightly controlled its people’s access to information; giving them leeway to make a living, travel about the country, and even study abroad, but heavily curtailing any dissent. The Chinese censors are well-known to be extremely active, up to and including taking down social media posts that contain “forbidden” words and concepts in real-time. All tyrants fear their own people, because they know that there are more of “the people” than the tyrants, and if the people reach a breaking point and turn on their government, they almost always win, regardless of casualties.
So the Covid situation, where Xi Jinping is so heavily invested in his Zero Covid strategy, has him and the CCP on a knife-edge. With his torturous lockdowns, the beginnings of starvation in a modern city, and information being spread on their own internal media, Mr. Xi is in the process of creating that which he fears most. The conditions imposed on the Chinese people cannot endure for long without uprisings. And the CCP knows how easy it is for a mob to turn deadly. That’s why they shut down demonstrations when they occur, and why they have forbidden any mention of 1989’s Tiananmen massacre.
Knowing that the spread of Omicron cannot be stopped once unleashed, I wonder how long it will take to spread to Beijing. Because it will. And then, what will Xi Jinping do? This information has spread as fast as the Omicron variant, and there is now no way for Xi to keep the world from knowing what is going on in his country. I hope that it is the Chinese/American Covid Virus that brings down the Communist regime in China. It will be a just punishment.
[originally posted at RushBabe49.com]
Published in Foreign Policy
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Well, now you see? I think they’re probably wrong, but I bring it up because I still keep it in my list of possibilities to rationally consider. It is possible, and there are people capable and crazy enough to be motivated to do it, and the Chinese say it was not them that released it. But the Chinese tend to lie about everything.
The medical doctors here at Ricochet disagree.
Yes, I am looking forward to something the doctors on Ricochet can agree upon. :)
I think the docs would agree that the vaccines do greatly reduce the risk of serious symptoms, that the reported incidence of serious side effects has been low, that immunity/resistance provided by vaccines is less lasting than that of naturally acquired immunity, and that the vaccines do not prevent further spread. I think that on account of that being the state of the data and science so far and the docs tend to do science.
I am open to the possibility that the testing and reporting of vaccine adverse effects may be skewed or that there may be longer-term issues but the available numbers don’t establish that (yet).
“low” is a subjective descriptor. I think the reported side effects have been alarming “high”, but I set my expectation based on other common vaccines.
I agree that the Covid Vaccines seem to have higher complications than other vaccines bur they still seem pretty darn low.
Just heard Dr. Jay answer a question about VAERS reporting and vaccines at the Hillsdale Leadership Seminar this morning. He’s vaccinated and he thinks it’s important for older, vulnerable people (for whom it definitely reduces the death rate and hospitalization rate), but should be optional for everyone else. He thinks it’s important for VAERS information to be out there, but it isn’t as useful as controlled studies.
My personal anecdotal experience of knowing 100’s of people directly and indirectly through church, gardening, music, work, and a large extended family with easily 80% of them vaccinated is zero deaths and zero serious reactions to the vaccine. Zero. Still don’t know about long term, but zero reactions so far.
Unlike COVID itself which killed people (before vaccines were even available to be blamed) and put many in the hospital with symptoms identical to what the vaccines supposedly cause (blood clots, myocarditis, etc.). It’s not that things reported on VAERS are untrue, it’s that, as Dr. Jay said, it’s impossible to say definitively the vaccines were the cause.
There are other reasons for younger people to be wary of still-largely-untested vaccines. For example, Even if the vaccines do sometimes result in infertility etc, that’s not something old people need to worry about.
Right, I’m not in favor of the young being vaccinated (other than my own 20-somethings with serious health conditions), especially children. Certainly not mandated. Natural immunity is their friend (and as Doc Jay said, “it’s real.”).
But, if all the reports of adverse vaccine responses were causative, I would have expected to hear some anecdotes in my broad, mostly vaccinated social circle by now. There are none. And no one I’ve discussed this with is able to give personal anecdotes either. All of which makes me think adverse reactions are rather rare, though not impossible. Every medical intervention has the potential for someone to react badly.
In terms of infertility, it could take some time yet before data is really available. There might be some self-selection involved there too, as I suspect/expect that people who were more likely to get vaccinated may have already been less likely to want/have children. It might take a lot longer if the bigger problem were to turn out to be that vaccinated people have children who may themselves be less fertile. We wouldn’t find out about that for another 15 years or more.
I know I don’t want to bring a child into this world with covid.
Wouldn’t newborns/infants have the best future with it already existing? They basically grow up with natural immunity.
It was intended as a joke. I wrote and rewrote it trying to make it readable with no Rs or Ls but gave up.
“I know I don’t want to bwing a chiode into this wood wiff covid” just didn’t work.
For three generations (since the Pill) young couples have been saying that for one reason or another — starting with the threat of nuclear war, then global cooling, then overpopulation, then global warming — that bringing a child into this world was a unfair to their children. Now it’s the virus.
Unlike the timeless lament of H.I. McDunnough: “Edwina’s insides were a rocky place where my seed could find no purchase.”