The Chinese city at the heart of the Covid pandemic has been plunged back into lockdown as more than 800,000 people in Wuhan have been told to stay at home until the end of the week. The Mail has more.
Authorities have reintroduced the draconian restriction – even though the city is only recording around 25 cases a day. At least 200 million people in 28 cities across China are living under lockdown curbs, such as stay-at-home orders, mass testing and shop closures.
China today logged 1,000 cases for the third day in a row – a tiny figure compared to standards in other countries. Beijing’s brutal ‘Zero-Covid’ approach has seen it plagued by aggressive restrictions for almost three years now, leaving people quarantined for months at a time. Other nations that originally pursued the economically-crippling regime have resorted to living with the virus, which is much milder now than when the pandemic began.
Statistics from Oxford University-backed research platform Our World in Data show that China logged 1,412 infections on October 26th, up 51% in a week.
However, the figure is tiny in comparison to the nation’s 1.4billion population. It means just 0.76 cases are being logged per million people.
For comparison, European nations are living restriction-free despite recording hundreds of cases [per million]. Rates are highest in Germany (781), followed by France (612) and Italy (553). The U.K. is registering around 120 positive tests per million people, while rates are similar in the U.S. (108). However, the figures are highly swayed by how many people are being tested in each country per day – with nations that test fewer people reporting fewer cases.
As of October 24th, people in 28 cities in China were subject to varying degrees of lockdown measures. Wuhan, where Covid was first detected in late 2019, logged 20 to 25 new infections per day this week.
One Wuhan resident said: “I don’t know what to do. If we can still survive living like this then I suppose that’s what we’ll do. When we see these news stories about Covid, we now feel a bit numb. We feel numb to it all. We feel more and more numb.”
Officials have also banned the sale of pork in parts of the city, according to images and posts on social media, after one case was linked to the local pork supply chain.
A wet market in the city is thought to be the source of the Covid outbreak. Several workers and shoppers at the Huanan Seafood Market came down with the mystery flu-like virus. However, some believe the virus leaked from the nearby Wuhan Institute of Virology, which was working extensively on bat coronaviruses at the time.
Meanwhile, Guangzhou, China’s fourth-biggest city by economic output, imposed restrictions on further streets and neighbourhoods as people were told to stay in their homes. Other large cities including Zhengzhou, Datong and Xian have implemented new curbs in response to local outbreaks. In Beijing, the Universal Resort theme park was shut on Wednesday after one visitor tested positive for the coronavirus.
Utter madness.
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A white middle aged man must be guilty of something – that’s enough for the totalitarian left.
You already said it. White, middle aged, man….
Insisting on “diversity” by colour/sex/religion/sexuality etc will obviously lead to tokenism.
Is it racist to say so?
No, it’s just common sense
Why must cricket players clean up their language? Should they perhaps best be forced to remain silent unless a political tribunal has decided that a particular utterance they were informally planning to make would be acceptable? There is no such thing as a right not to be belittled by other people the state ought to enforce when the targets were certain kinds of people. As a matter of politeness and more generally, manners, people shouldn’t verbally abuse others intentionally. However, they’re wont to do this nevertheless and in most cases, say, referring to someone from Wales as sheep shagger, this is not something the courts would or should handle.
People aren’t always nice to each other. That’s a fact of life other people, who certainly also weren’t always nice to others, will have to cope with.
Indeed. Why is the term “Paki” unacceptable whereas an Australian referring to Brits as “pommies” is just banter?
In Oldham the Pakistani community refer to their cousins the Bangladeshis as ‘deshies.’ When I first heard deshies I had to have it explained to me.
The Pakis hate the Deshies and vice versa.
Obviously a bit of inter-cultural banter is acceptable. I doubt I could use Paki or Deshi and not risk a visit from plod.
Which just shows us that “anti-racism” is being used as a cover for an attack on our country, or what’s left of it.
Without a doubt tof and blatantly.
An attack on the majority, white part of the country
Agree. For example, take a look at Parsi jokes, which frequently depict Gujeratis as the English depict the Irish or South Africans depict the Boers. The context varies, the core of the jokes is the same!
Damn right.
Bloody sick of this policing of language.
Yes it’s like the dreaded ”N” word that is OK if that word applies to you and you own it, using it to talk to others who also claim it as their own. Anybody else calling a person that and they’d get knocked out! LOL Context is everything. Which brings me on nicely to this fabulous act, which sums it up in a humorous way I think.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVN_0qvuhhw&ab_channel=TimMinchin
The answer to your question is quite simple. ——–“Diversity” is not about getting all races together and removing discrimination etc. ———-It is about one thing only —-“Less White People”
Time to highjack this place with some next level nano-weirdness once more. Yes it’s Spartacus again with their latest installment of what our future looks like if we all sit back and allow humankind to be augmented. So if you want to know more about ”smart dust” or the use of ”neuralnanorobots” then read on;
”All of the tech necessary to reduce mankind to a state of absolute, irreversible technological slavery is being actively researched and there are numerous published papers on it, many of them in open-access journals.
By conducting searches with various keywords, like Internet of Bodies, Internet of Bio-Nano Things, intra-body nano-networks, Smart Cities, nanotransducer BCIs, biodigital convergence, synthetic biology, bionanotechnology, and so on, you will pull up paper after paper of literal mad science. Implantable tracking devices, methods to manipulate the membrane potentials of cells remotely, ways to self-assemble logic circuits and molecular Turing machines inside people’s bodies, and so on. These are not mere hypotheticals or flights of fancy. Test articles have been engineered and experiments have been conducted, with success.
It would be easy to write this all off as a result of simple scientific curiosity, were it not for the fact that insane billionaire Neo-Malthusians and anti-humanists of every stripe, as well as their WEF sycophants evangelizing about Net-Zero and Smart Cities, are grinning like Cheshire cats while openly spouting ethical monstrosities.
Smirking psychopaths are sitting in front of us on stages, fingers steepled, insinuating that they plan to use these technologies for blatantly immoral social control, menticide, and the reengineering of humans into their own personal pleasure-animals while they make themselves into literal gods using the same tech.”
https://iceni.substack.com/p/the-unrecognized-threat-of-human
I miss Danny Baker who was always very entertaining but got sacked by the BBC because of one “misjudged” joke he posted on Twitter – a picture of a couple holding hands with a chimpanzee dressed in clothes, with the comment “Royal baby leaves hospital”, shortly after the birth of Harry and Meghan’s son.
I think the only misjudgement was in not realising that his joke would be misconstrued as “racist” by some people lacking a sophisticated sense of humour, including the powers that be at the BBC, when it wasn’t in any real sense racist, it was absurdly beyond racist, and it was a joke!
Nevertheless, despite Danny Baker apologising, the BBC sacked him, the same organisation that never sacked Jimmy Savile.
It shouldn’t be forgotten that Azeem Raffiq was found guilty of using racist language insulting to Jews.
In other words he’s got form.
Oh, but he’s not white so that’s OK then.
“It has been both difficult and upsetting to hear about the painful experiences which Azeem has described over the past three years.”
You limp wristed idiot. Sympathy went out the window on reading that paragraph. Thereafter Vauggan persists in talking the same woke language has his accusers.
I have zero sympathy.
That was the reason for the comment I wrote: This is all about who did or didn’t say something, while everybody, including Will Jones, is taking the Dis is a fery zerious madder! BS at face value. There’s absolutely nothing wrong with being of the opinion that there are more XY people living in one’s neighbourhood than one happens to be comfortable with. I’ve read interviews with Indians saying the same about Poles, ironically also, because Poles are racist to us! [despite we belong into this country while they certainly don’t !!1]. And insulting someone by referring to him as token black man (or sheep-shagging wanker, fwiw) is nothing but an insult targetted at a particular person. Depending on the context, this can be regarded as bad behaviour. But it could as well be a perfectly appropriate retort. And there certainly shouldn’t be official tribunals trying to regulate bad behaviour of adults. This would literally be a nanny state.
Exactly. I think we’re just poles apart from people who think that they have the right never to be offended by anything.
I tend to see feeling offended as a character flaw – if someone’s criticism of you is justified, suck it up and better yourself, if it is not justified why would it bother you?
I just don’t want to be on the same planet as these people.
Probably because of the hat….
One rule for Vaughan, another for Lineker. Whither the BBC? As this rate wither the BBC.
Hopefully
Mr Vaughn, tell the BBC to stick their job where the sun don’t shine. Who wants to work for this embarrassment of an organisation anyway? Except cretins like Lineker.
Vaughan is pathetic. He mouths all PC palaver like a good apparatchik hauled into a Soviet court. Listen, mate – you were on the sharp end of a race hustle. You know it, everyone knows it, have the balls to say it.
In other news, BBC Diversity and Hurty Feelings Executive stated that ex Azov Brigade Ukrainian Trans Adviser will be joining Match of the Day. His conviction for torturing POWs he asserts was incorrect and did not reflect his lived experience.