China’s biggest city has been plunged into lockdown amid the highest level of cases since the early weeks of the pandemic. The Telegraph has more.
Shanghai will lock down its eastern half – known as Pudong and including the main international airport and financial district – for five days of testing beginning on Monday, the government said. It will be followed by a similar lockdown of its western side, known as Puxi and featuring the historic Bund riverfront, from April 1st.
The metropolis of 25 million has in recent days become the leading hotspot in a nationwide outbreak that began to gain pace in early March.
Although recent case numbers remain insignificant in a global context, they are China’s highest since the first weeks of the pandemic, which first emerged in the city of Wuhan in late 2019.
China’s National Health Commission on Sunday reported more than 4,500 new domestically transmitted cases – down by more than 1,000 from the previous day, but still far higher than the double-digit daily tallies usually seen over the past two years.
Millions of residents in affected areas across the country have been subjected to city-wide lockdowns.
Shanghai, however, had thus far avoided a full lockdown, with officials saying it was imperative to keep the eastern Chinese port and financial hub running – for the good of both the national and global economies.
But with case counts climbing, the city government said in a public notice that the two-part lockdown was being implemented “to curb the spread of the epidemic, ensure the safety and health of the people” and root out cases of infection “as soon as possible”.
The announcement said buses, taxis and the city’s extensive subway system would also be shut down during the lockdown.
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I am no longer convinced that lockdowns were a cynical ploy, by the CCP, to drag the world down. 2+ years on and China is still ensconced in self-destructive terror while most of the rest of the world moves on.
Do you know where we are moving to?
If not, don’t bother looking – not a pretty sight!
We’re supposed to be moving towards the situation where already supposed to be firmly locked into as this turned out to be untrue and – like the corona-politicians – global conspiracy theorists are never proven wrong by unexpected cirumstances, they just update their theories and act as if they never had predicted anything different.
Rubbish! Do some serious research.
When was the last time you heard our politicians and the unfree media admit to getting it wrong?
“Conspiracy theorists” try their best to create logical counter-narratives when it becomes obvious the mainstream narrative is a lie.
These theories should of course be treated with caution, but the success rate has probably been at its highest level ever over the last two years.
I haven’t got a clue what you are on about.
Klaus Schwab wrote a book about the New World Order FFS.
What are you talking about? No one needs to be a conspiracy theorist, it’s all out in the open.
The WEF is a serial-publisher of pointless tomes supposed to resonate with whatever they believe the Zeitgeist to be.
This clown is so over rated. Do you honestly believe that every company in the world, every person in the world can be controlled by some clown? When will this fraud give up his pipe dream? Ask anyone in the business world. They don’t even know who he is.
Moving to not locking down anymore.
So what is all this Agenda 2021 talk of ‘Resettlement Camps’ all about then?
Do you honestly believe this? I have yet to hear one lawyer, one judge, one investment guru, one, mathmetician, one epidemiologist, one scientist mention
. Live in the present. That is all we have.
Glad to hear this. The “truths” often thrown about by those on this site are sometimes just as bad as what the government says, often with almost identical language. Compare
”People are refusing the vx that will keep them safe. It’s very sad.”
”People are queuing like lemmings for the juice. It’s very sad.”
Communism and other totalitarian ideologies do promote balderdash as science.
Lovely satirical use of ‘ensconced’.
Theatre!
the photo at the top says it all – “hazmat” suits with open faces and no gloves.
Fake – for Western consumption ( they know we are gullible and stupid as we have plainly demonstrated over the last two years!).
Whitty has probably called in some new images to “stoke the Fear” – the Chinese always oblige – as they did in early 2020. -it worked a treat!
One shot of a “hazmat” and they run for their masks and hide under the table!
At dawn.
Yes covid was theatre and now the ukraine/Russia “crisis” with impending fuel and food shortages is theatre. All perfectly preventable with the flip of a switch. Just a word from zelensky or Biden would stop it in its tracks. But like the experimental biologicals, it was allowed to run its course til every last cent was wrung out of it by BIG PHARMA, test kit manufacturers, mask manufacturers. There are many companies, especially in the USA still to make a buck on the Ukraine “crisis” so they can’t let it go just yet, but they will, just in the nick of time.
Someone should urgently inform the Chinese that South Africa dismantled its complete Corona infrastructure in December due to medical experts considering it not fit for purpose and no value for money and that no recognizable issues with the health and safety of its people emerged because of that. Also, that Labour controlled councils in England, in particular, Reading, are meanwhile using billboard adds to beg people to test themselves if they have so-called Corona symptoms and to go into voluntary isolation should the test result be positive.
They’re (the people living in China) running the real risk of turning into something like COVID Disneyland in the not too distant future, with visitors shaking their heads in astonished amusement about the medieval seeming supersitions this would-be world power is really built upon.
The Chinese are only doing what Gates has asked them to do – keep Covid alive to push the vax!!
I’m not sure about the UK, but China definitely doesn’t do what Bill Gates tells/asks them to do
Gates is well known to be a great admirer of China and its methods.
I sort-of understand that people are fascinated by the idea of someone being a billionaire, however, even compared to a fairly small state, Gates is an insignificant bit player. Also, China developed its own Corona vaccine.
As a ‘bit player’ Gates will soon, under a new treaty, be in charge , through GAVI and the WHO, (which he bankrolls), of UK health policy decisions and the “mandating” of Vaccines globally – some “bit player”!
The UK has a yearly tax revenue which is about 6 times as large as Gates supposed net worth and the UK budget is even larger. In other words, the UK government spends more than 6 times the supposed net worth of Gates per year. Every year. And the UK is not the most prosperous of the so-calle G7 states.
It would make no difference. I’m waiting for a consignment of rare earth products from Shanghai (I’m afraid our prodcts need rare earths, and almost all the processing is in China these days), which have been manufactured but cannot ship because no one is allowed into the factories to dispatch them.
Of course, I’ve gently pointed out the madness of lockdowns and how that the Shanghai economy will grind to a halt (never mind our production line, which needs the rare earths) if this goes on, but it is like talking to a brick wall. I’m told that we don’t understand: China is a big country with a huge population, and so we must trust the CCP government is doing the right thing so that things will not get worse.
Lockdown mania is alive and well in China.
And here’s the latest:
The way I see it is – whenever China wishes to increase pressure in its ongoing trade war against US (e.g. because the West is not allowing it to rub shoulders with old friend Putin), a lockdown happens. And “incidentally” a lot of “unfortunate” delays for the container ships – only to protect public health of course. In the grand scale of things it’s probably a good tradeoff for China to “suspend” their economy like that for a few days – if the West suffers a lot more as a result. Just like those Russian soldiers, Chinese citizens are just collateral damage.
China was the first to lockdown and it looks like the folly of its actions will be replicated by other countries who chose to go down the suppression route. Communist ideology finds it very difficult to admit error. As Eastern Europe proved they just carry on until the whole precipice comes tumbling down. Even more concerning is the number of politicians, scientists and civil servants who clung to the zero covid ideology until enough people began to fight back. We came very close to losing most of our freedoms. Never again.
Indeed, never again. Zero COVID is a pipe dream, and China is now learning that lesson the hard way.
The dream of eradicating a virus like the coronavirus will fade but never disappear.
It will be like communism that looked defeated in 1990, but actually retreated into the dark corners of academia to fester and is now bursting out again in the form of health mandates, climate policy and rabid wokism.
Zero covid insanity will resurface in the future in some new form. Wait and see.
But how do we deal with it?
To the contrary, China is showing the world that it will either become like China or get nothing out of China.
This brings up another point which ought to be worthy of being considered for the Corona inquiry: To which degree did Chinese funding of academic institutions, trade unions and political parties like Labour or SNP correlate with vociferous support for China-style corona politics? If (and I’m pretty certain that this would be the case were it to be investigated) such correlations can be found, what safeguards can be put into place to prevent foreign and potentially hostile powers from buying themselves the policies they want to be implemented in a certain country.
In former times, something like this had been considered treason.
WEF – invented by Kissinger and the CIA – Schwab was in it from day one – early 1970s, . Objective: ensure that Europe ( first through the EEF later the WEF) is dominated by the US to ensure the picking of new leaders. and directing of social, economic and military policy in line with US objectives.
China has swallowed the ‘plan’ and merely implemented all the oppressive social control measures advocated by Schwab quicker than the West!
It’s a bit suspicious that any attempt at discussing Chinese politics in this context (any attempt I remember) immediately ends up being buried under this old story despite its advocates have just thoroughly discredited themselves by silently shelving all their wrong predictions which have been with us since some time in 2020.
One could almost assume this was a Chinese disinformation campaign.
The Chinese are complicit, but not the main players in this – they have their own global agenda – for the dark heart check out the background and convoluted role of Fauci and his key collaborator Peter Daszak – the picture gets much clearer.
Once again RFKJ’s book ‘ The Real Anthony Fauci “is essential reading.
It doesn’t appear to be any easier for so-called democratic countries to admit error.
The motto of this appears to still be, do not test. A positive test does not mean you are ill and could therefore continue to work …… unless your controllers say you can’t.
They’ve got that covered with the vax passes. You can either be vaxxed or show immunity obtained from prior infection demonstrated of course with an official test.
In some places like Germany it has been impossible to conduct normal life without a vax pass. So the incentive to test for those who didn’t want the jab was huge.
The result? An epidemic of infections among the unjabbed.
The people who concocted all this are absolute monsters.
There is still some hope for Germany. The lunatic health minister who used to be loved and respected by the moronic majority seems to have fallen into disgrace even with his fans, simply through comparison of other European countries and the record high infections despite the “measures”. Even the last idiot seems to be waking up.
I see derisive comments about masks in the Spiegel online forum – and hardly any attacks on the corona critics or the unvaccinated, which used to be a favorite pastime of the comments a few months ago. It seems that the German media, for whatever reason, have been also given instructions not to censor the criticism as they used to. A great outcome would be if the crazy health minister was sacrificed by the chancellor and given the boot. But chances for that are low based on his previous support.
“The people who concocted all this are absolute monsters.”
Well, there’s no-one going to remove them from their positions, so expect more of the same!
They command – and you do as they say!
Boris and the Tories have killed far more British people than Islamic terrorists have.
Boris and the Tories are far more of a threat to the welfare of British people than Putin is.
Labour are as different to the the Tories as Pepsi is to coca-cola.
Yet the mong voters will carry on supporting them.
Boris has clearly been sent to be the Nemesis of ” The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland”
Total eclipse?
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”Plunged” into lockdown. Plunged. Such a silly word, which the MSM likes to throw about gleefully, along with “uptick”, “we must be cautious”, “circuit breaker”, and one I just can’t get out of my head: Saint Boris’s “squeeeeeeeeeeeeze the brakes”.
Cheap hyperbole – gutter press values!
Not just hyperbole – also a suggestion of a higher force rather than an intentionally provoked outcome.
They are a ‘higher force’. Any bother and they’ll send the Police round. You will do as told.
Anyone heard about the nightmare “Resettlement Camps” discussed by Iain Davis?
How long until “we’ve tried freedom, but it unfortunately has not worked” from the government? And a lot of told you so‘s from the covidian fanatics?
To fair that photo could just be three covidians getting ready to pop to the shops.
Theatre
Reminder to all mask fanatics: which nation has highest masks compliance? You guessed it, China (Hong Kong is #1 if counted separately). Guess whose being ravaged by Covid?
I remain hopefully that a quality, proper scientific research paper will be done on masks, incl the diff kinds. If I’m wrong and masks do show a noticeable impact, I’ll support their use. But given basic engineering (things 10-100x more porous than virus can’t stop said virus), I don’t see that coming. But we need this so when the next variant comes along and a Labour govt (bc the Tories will sink from inflation and idiocy) mandates them 100% or the time in all places for all ages, we will need actual science. Until then, the magic amulet crowd will prosper.
Why would any country mandate lockdowns when they don’t work? What country can afford to shutdown again? Omicron getting weaker and weaker and weaker. Stupid britain let 40,000 care home workers go. So all those people in hospital who are ready to leave cannot be sent out because…..there are no staff to look after them. Oh dear. The stupidity just keeps getting worse.
oh yeah don’t forget to get your fourth jab despite the fact that it is completely ineffective, and unsafe. Hey who cares the clowns are running the show now. Shanghai just one more example of the stupid gene.