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More News From Hong Kong, Where ‘Zero Covid’ is Still the Official Policy

by Toby Young
20 February 2022 4:00 PM

We’re publishing a second dispatch from our anonymous Hong Kong correspondent, this time focusing on two recent reports in the local media. Together, they present a picture of a city that is gradually being crushed under the boot of Communist dictatorship.

Your readers may be interested in a further update on Hong Kong? At a time when most other countries are either removing or at least reducing Covid regulations and requirements, why is Hong Kong moving in the opposite direction?

I attach one notice and two articles from today’s South China Morning Post newspaper:

The above notice is the diagramatic instruction, English version, to all 7.5 million Hong Kong residents about how ‘Dynamic Covid’ is to be implemented from today.

The two articles include the following:

(President) Xi instructed Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor and her team to mobilise all available forces and resources and take all necessary measures to ensure the safety of residents and the stability of society, according to reports splashed on the front pages of the Beijing-backed newspapers Wen Wei Po and Ta Kung Pao.

He demanded the Hong Kong Government take primary responsibility for the fight against the virus while ordering the central Government departments and Guangdong province to promptly address Hong Kong’s requests. His forthright tone has clearly demonstrated Beijing’s worries and its dismay about Hong Kong’s response.

Making public his instruction is significant on several levels. The first aspect is to impress on the Hong Kong Government the need to take more decisive actions to contain the outbreak; the second one is to stiffen the spines of local officials in dismissing the thinking behind, and lobbying for, the policy of living with Covid – favoured by many residents including civil servants at a time when the rest of the world has opened up; the third one is to remind officials of the need to bury their differences and get 100% behind China’s dynamic Zero-Covid policy.

And like truckers the world over, our truckers have their problems too:

After enduring strict COVID-19 measures that kept him from seeing his wife and friends for more than two years, cross-border Hong Kong truck driver Liu Kun-ming has made the painful decision to shut down his transport company.

“I want to get out as soon as possible,” said the 53-year-old who has been transporting goods from mainland China to Hong Kong for more than two decades. “It’s hopeless and there’s nothing much I can do.”

He said he could no longer stomach the “inhumane” measures imposed by mainland officials on cross-border drivers, with the recent outbreak of the Omicron variant making conditions worse for many truckers. Despite Liu and his mainland wife having a home in Shenzhen, he has been confined since the pandemic began in early 2020 to a designated hotel for drivers provided by mainland authorities and subject to strict rules while at work.

These measures could mean drivers being confined inside their trucks for six to seven hours, said a 60-year-old Hong Kong driver surnamed Cheung.

“We cannot open the vehicle door or have proper meals, so we can only eat bread and biscuits,” said Cheung, who has been a driver for more than 30 years. “If you leave your vehicle without permission, your licence can be revoked.”

If a driver needed to use the toilet, he must drive over to officials present and ask permission, he added.

It appears from other articles that people are avoiding taking a Covid test. Apparently, this is because if they test positive they have to be isolated immediately. As you can imagine, we are all quite shocked at this very selfish reaction and expect the Government to do something about it!

Today it has been announced that China has sent a work team to construct, in two weeks, a makeshift 10,000 bed isolation facility with the potential for building a further three. They will be used to house asymptomatic Covid-positive residents. Apparently, this is preferable, and more controllable than using hotels. At the same time, plans are being advanced for the compulsory mass testing of 7.5 million residents, with three tests each over the period of the next month.

Safe and happy days in Asia’s World City!

Tags: DictatorshipDynamic CovidHong KongZero Covid

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
3 years ago

What a way to have to live.

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Rowan
Rowan
3 years ago
Reply to  huxleypiggles

Coming to a place near you?

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Amy Pierson
Amy Pierson
3 years ago
Reply to  Rowan

HELLO GOOD NEW

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Lockdown Sceptic
Lockdown Sceptic
3 years ago
Reply to  huxleypiggles

Canadian trucker: ‘This is going to be a long road’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZdG28QJDvA
Fox News

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Fingerache Philip
Fingerache Philip
3 years ago
Reply to  huxleypiggles

Not even an existence.

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True Spirit of America Party
True Spirit of America Party
3 years ago
Reply to  huxleypiggles

I wouldn’t really call that living at all. Just existing, and barely so.

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BS665
BS665
3 years ago

Stoke Communism to avert a snifflette.

Oh, God.

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A passerby
A passerby
3 years ago

I’ll try reverse psychology this time, it sometimes works on my grand children.

Stick with the program, it may take years but it’ll be worth it!

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cornubian
cornubian
3 years ago

I’m glad you acknowledge that different degrees of ‘covid’ measures are in fact different degrees of communism.

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Moist Von Lipwig
Moist Von Lipwig
3 years ago
Reply to  cornubian

Communism is the ideology of Marx and Engels, it yas nothing to do with bankers.

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ElSabio
ElSabio
3 years ago
Reply to  Moist Von Lipwig

Nothing to do with bankers…?

Marx moved to London in 1849. While Marx was authoring Das Kapital in the British Museum reading room, his famous cousin, Lionel de Rothschild, conveniently, was MP for the City of London (1847-1868 & 1869-1874). The Rothschilds (Marx’s third cousin by blood) and other Jewish finance syndicates were very prominent in promoting “Jewish emancipation” and Masonic, liberal and Protestant ideas which took hold of society at the start of the 19th century.

The idea of Marx as a Rothschild shill was raised as a concern by his contemporary rival in the First International, Mikhail Bakunin in 1869,[18][19] who was not even aware of the fact that Marx and Rothschild were cousins. Bakunin wrote presciently: “This world is now, at least for the most part, at the disposal of Marx on the one hand, and of Rothschild on the other. This may seem strange. What can there be in common between socialism and a leading bank? The point is that authoritarian socialism, Marxist communism, demands a strong centralisation of the state. And where there is centralization of the state, there must necessarily be a central bank, and where such a bank exists, the parasitic Jewish nation, speculating with the Labour of the people, will be found.”

–Mikhail Bakunin, Profession de foi d’un démocrate socialiste russe précédé d’une étude sur les juifs allemands, 1869.[18]http://en.metapedia.org/wiki/Karl_Marx

http://fourwinds10.com/siterun_data/history/zionism/news.php?q=1429885201

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Moist Von Lipwig
Moist Von Lipwig
3 years ago
Reply to  ElSabio

Given that Marx proposed the negation of economics, your claim is rubbish.

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Moist Von Lipwig
Moist Von Lipwig
3 years ago
Reply to  ElSabio

You conflate a central bank with free banks.

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Matt Mounsey
Matt Mounsey
3 years ago
Reply to  Moist Von Lipwig

I kind of agree with you, but the current system of fractional reserve banking in tandem with the central bank, allowing both to create money from credit is insane and unsustainable, don’t you think?

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Annie
Annie
3 years ago
Reply to  ElSabio

Please detail the evidence for the claim that the French Revolution was funded by bankers.

Last edited 3 years ago by Annie
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cornubian
cornubian
3 years ago
Reply to  Annie

Look it up yourself!!!

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RW
RW
3 years ago
Reply to  Annie

Realistically, almost everything is funded (to the degree that it’s funded) with money coming from a bank. 🙂

It’s probably best to ignore Americans who simply don’t understand that they’re the only ones who believe states are inherently evil. Their’s isn’t so old yet. They’ll get over it in a few hundred years.

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cornubian
cornubian
3 years ago
Reply to  Moist Von Lipwig

Communism, and communist revolutions, have nothing to do with bankers – are you being serious?

Shortly after the French Revolution (which was funded by bankers), a central bank was created with its banker shareholders given exclusive rights to print money – much like the Fed today. Of course, those that control the credit of a nation, and charge interest on that credit, eventually control the nation. Likewise in Russia, after Wall Street bankrolled Trotsky and Lenin, the same financial elite began investing heavily in a Russia where the labour force had been dispossessed of any rights.

French revolutionaries were inspired in part by the writings of professor Adam Weishaupt, who had founded a secret order and revealed his most radical plans to only his closest confidents. Weishaupt suggested that mankind would best be served by eliminating monarchical rule, destroying the church, repealing all law, forbidding ownership of property, crushing patriotism and dispensing with nation states. If everyone was equal, he argued, there would be no competition, envy would cease to exist, conflict would end and mankind would live in eternal peace.

This fantasy utopia is what our youth are being taught to believe in today.
Some years later this very same radical program was honed by Engels and Marx into the Communist Manifesto.

The basic tenets of the Communist Manifesto are: 1. Destruction of Christian values, 2. Destruction of the family unit, 3.Abolition of national borders. 4. Elimination of separate nationalities. 5. Confiscation of private property. 6. Elimination of inheritance and the establishment of a One World Government run by appointees. In such circumstances, all of the worlds’ wealth would be harvested into the effective ownership of one very small group of powerful plutocrats at the top.

As it happens, these ‘communist’ objectives mirror the exact same aims of ‘the Illuminati’, ‘the Davos set’, ‘the Bildeburg group’, ‘the bankers’, ‘the Elite’, ‘the globalists’ or whatever else you chose to call the powerful forces at work who are self evidently pushing, in one form or another, for a One World Government.

Anyone who says the bankers have nothing to do with communism has no understanding of history or politics. For the bankers, world-wide ‘communism’ is a strategic objective

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bfbf334
bfbf334
3 years ago
Reply to  cornubian

And Wall Street financed the Nazis via Switzerland (even after the US entered the war) “military industrial complex” as President Eisenhower called it.

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Moist Von Lipwig
Moist Von Lipwig
3 years ago
Reply to  bfbf334

Nazis were socialists and still are.

National socialism, being a form of socialism, makes economic calculation impossible by abolishing the market and market prices.

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Moist Von Lipwig
Moist Von Lipwig
3 years ago
Reply to  cornubian

Your post is unserious gibbering.

You essentially deny man has a mind in your flatulent outburst.

A central bank is Marxist, a plank of the Communist Manifesto, the very existence of a central bank is irrational.

By contrast, a free banking system of the kind Scotland had for two hundred years is rational, free markets are rational.

As Ludwig Von Mises demonstrated, socialism makes economic calculation impossible by abolishing the market and market prices. Since Communism is a form of socialism, it follows that Communism makes economic calculation impossible by abolishing the market and market prices

Your claim that banks desire the negation of economics is moronic.

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DodosArentDead
DodosArentDead
3 years ago
Reply to  cornubian

This is not just communism. This is a very special kind of communism. This is a series of 4 short 10 min videos. Absolutely horrendous. Coming to a place near me and you and you and you in the very near future!

https://m.theepochtimes.com/episode-1-war-on-the-human-spirit-the-dark-origins-of-communism_3947877.html

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Nessimmersion
Nessimmersion
3 years ago

Testing

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CynicalRealist
CynicalRealist
3 years ago
Reply to  Nessimmersion

Wouldn’t it be easier to just use a coin?

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Arum
Arum
3 years ago
Reply to  Nessimmersion

fortune cookies are American not Chinese

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stewart
stewart
3 years ago
Reply to  Arum

So is COVID..:-)

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kate
kate
3 years ago

A friend of mine has just written this song for the truckers. Listen and share!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAFk5T4eqQM&t=56s

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DodosArentDead
DodosArentDead
3 years ago

Doesn’t even scratch the surface of what’s going on. See the daily updates by this brave Chinese soul.

https://mobile.twitter.com/songpinganq

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DodosArentDead
DodosArentDead
3 years ago
Reply to  DodosArentDead

…and another… the updates about what is going on in China are quite literally mind blowing!

https://mobile.twitter.com/songpinganq

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Cecil B
Cecil B
3 years ago

More fake news

The Queen cannot have covid

You cannot get covid if you have been jabbed, President Joseph Biden told us this

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BS665
BS665
3 years ago
Reply to  Cecil B

He forgot to tell you he was lying.

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stewart
stewart
3 years ago

I can usually come up with a theory in my mind for pretty much anything. But I have literally no clue how China exits zero-covid.

They jabbed everybody ages ago and stuck with the zero-covid approach knowing full well the jabs did f. all.

So they can’t take the ‘pretend the vaccine has saved us’ vaccine route out that the western world is taking.

Admitting they screwed up is not an option. The CCP is like a divine entity that can do no wrong.

They can’t throw someone under the bus because Xi Jingpin has been the front for the China response taking the early credit.

They can’t let Hong Kong go their own way because it would show rhe rest of China up.

And the isolation will only work so long before the Chinese start getting passed off that the rest of the world has moved on.

They are so, so screwed.

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DevonBlueBoy
DevonBlueBoy
3 years ago
Reply to  stewart

And don’t they deserve to be screwed? Being in thrall to Chairman Xi’s amazing leadership?!!

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RW
RW
3 years ago

Xi has backed himself in a corner here: As he’s the genius leader of China whose so-called philosophies and grand ideas pupils have to memorize, he cannot possibly admit that he’s been doing nothing but inflict needless suffering and major economic harm on his country by assuming that he really knew everything better than everybody else and trying to prove that he was the real Canute and that the tides would obey to him. Sooner or later, this will very likely end with a sword falling onto him and then, China will both live with COVID and live without Xi.

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Mike Oxlong
Mike Oxlong
3 years ago

I see a fourth jab is being offered within weeks for the elderly and immuno-supressed. No doubt it will then move down the age groups!

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DanClarke
DanClarke
3 years ago

Pathetic response to nothing more than a cold

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jingleballix
jingleballix
3 years ago

HK has seen about 214 deaths in 2yrs.

Why so low?

Absolutely nothing to do with masks and isolation………because of prior immunity to coronaviruses gained in the 2000s.

Yet this farce is being perpetrated.

All about politics – because of the 2019 troubles, Beijing wants everybody jabbed, and everybody on the social credit system……CONTROL.

AND THE WEST IS APING CHINA.

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David Beaton
David Beaton
3 years ago

CCP Fascism. ….that’s what they secretly want here ..if they can get away with it..

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John001
John001
3 years ago

An appalling scene in which the speaker of the Canadian parliament pretends not to hear an MP’s question which anyone who watches the clip can hear loud and clear. Whatever you do, don’t under any circumstances mention the Great Reset or WEF or you’ll be ‘cancelled’ like this MP

https://youtu.be/LENRhxcwe8Y

It looks as if over half the Canadian cabinet owe their allegiance to Mr Schwab.

What about the UK?
 

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CovidiotAntiMasker
CovidiotAntiMasker
3 years ago
Reply to  John001

A revealing clip, the question deftly batted away as misinformation, it would no doubt get short shrift in the UK commons. Schwab’s young global leaders won’t entertain conspiracy facts.

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AndyPandy
AndyPandy
3 years ago

God help them.

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True Spirit of America Party
True Spirit of America Party
3 years ago

I bet so many people in Hong Kong wish they were still part of the British Empire now.

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Lockdown Sceptic
Lockdown Sceptic
3 years ago

Matt Le Tissier – football’s voice of reason over the jab
Kathy Gyngell 
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/matt-le-tissier-footballs-voice-of-reason-over-the-jab/

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