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Disney Closes Shanghai Resorts as China Struggles to Contain Covid Outbreak

by Toby Young
21 March 2022 3:32 PM

Disney has closed Shanghai Disneyland, Disneytown and Wishing Star Park as China records its biggest COVID-19 outbreak in two years. MailOnline has more.

Disney said: “Due to the current pandemic situation, Shanghai Disney Resort, including Shanghai Disneyland, Disneytown and Wishing Star Park will be temporarily closed from Monday, March 21, 2022.

“We will continue to monitor the pandemic situation and consult local authorities, and will notify guests as soon as we have a confirmed date to resume operations.”

China is fighting its biggest wave of locally transmitted COVID-19 cases since the outbreak was first reported in Wuhan in early 2020.

The case numbers, despite showing a slight increase from the previous day’s 1,737, are still relatively low compared with other major countries, including the U.S. where 6,623 cases were reported on Sunday.

But authorities in China are enforcing a ‘zero tolerance’ strategy that has resulted in access to some major cities being suspended, while Changchun and Jilin in the northeast began another round of citywide virus testing following a surge in infections.

Jilin tightened anti-disease curbs, ordering its two million residents to stay home, after 1,542 of the 2,027 Chinese mainland infections on Sunday were reported in Jilin province, where Changchun and Jilin are located.

Meanwhile, the southern business center of Shenzhen allowed shops and offices to reopen after a weeklong closure.

Shanghai, which has a population of 24 million people, has avoided a citywide shutdown but appealed to the public to stay home and has launched a city-wide testing programme which has seen dozens of residential compounds sealed off for the last 48 hours.

Yet another nail in the coffin of the zero-Covid policy.

Worth reading in full.

Tags: DisneyShanghai

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steve_z
steve_z
3 years ago

“Yet another nail in the coffin of the zero-Covid policy.”

But Devi Sridhar wrote a book about where everyone went wrong (not early enough and not hard enough presumably)

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Hopeless - "TN,BN"
Hopeless - "TN,BN"
3 years ago
Reply to  steve_z

Par for the course. She’s one of Schwab’s “Young World Leaders”, along with Trudeau and some other not-so-young half-baked tyro despots, and it thus follows that everything she comes out with is so much ordure.

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stewart
stewart
3 years ago
Reply to  steve_z

And by all accounts the WHO is working on a treaty to remedy that exact problem so that “next time” they can go in early and hard.

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Rogerborg
Rogerborg
3 years ago
Reply to  stewart

Are these the accounts from anyone credible? I’ve asked to see the receipts on this one before, and the evidence didn’t support the claim.

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ImpObs
ImpObs
3 years ago
Reply to  Rogerborg

EU council: https://archive.ph/j0O0e

actually it’s the WHO infographic, EU council only published it

more links in here: https://corbettreport.substack.com/p/globalists-release-timeline-for-health

Last edited 3 years ago by ImpObs
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Hopeless - "TN,BN"
Hopeless - "TN,BN"
3 years ago

Not surprising. I was waiting for something to be sent to me from China, but the shipment tracking came to a full stop. Further enquiries with the China end informed me that the carrier’s business and warehouse had been locked down by the provincial government, for an initial period of 10 days, or perhaps longer.

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TheyLiveAndWeLockdown
TheyLiveAndWeLockdown
3 years ago
Reply to  Hopeless - "TN,BN"

or someone is desperately trying to FUBAR global trade.

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DevonBlueBoy
DevonBlueBoy
3 years ago
Reply to  TheyLiveAndWeLockdown

A welcome re-appearance of ‘FUBAR’; it’s been away for far too long!

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marebobowl
marebobowl
3 years ago
Reply to  TheyLiveAndWeLockdown

Exactly.

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crisisgarden
crisisgarden
3 years ago

I just simply don’t believe any aspect of this story. China has a Covid crisis because the CCP wants or needs a Covid crisis. The Chinese leadership is too smart and too savvy to cause economic damage because of a relatively minor outbreak of a now exceptionally weak and insignificant respiratory virus. They’re playing the same games now as the West has been playing for two years.. Why?

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RW
RW
3 years ago
Reply to  crisisgarden

Because they’re not smart and savvy. On average, people are pretty stupid and they are doing stupid stuff all the time. This includes people whose only relevant skill is CCP-internal politics. Xi has boxed himself in with his Zero COVID strategy. He can’t admit that it was a stupid idea which was bound to end in a dismal failure, hence, he has to press on.

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stewart
stewart
3 years ago
Reply to  crisisgarden

It’s not a small point that China does not really have a national health service. If people need medical attention on mass, they have no where to go.

My default position on China with regards to COVID from day one was that if the population required mass medical attention the CCP was going to be found out for the con job it really is.

The hospitals built in a few days, the armies of people in hazmat suits, it’s all smoke and mirrors. They can do that at a relatively small scale. But they can’t deploy that sort of thing across the country. Not even in their wildest dreams.

So any disease that causes a substantial uptick in those requiring medical care will expose a system in which medical treatment is paid out of pocket and only really available for the well to do. And even for them the system would be badly stretched.

It would basically be a catastrophe for the CCP.

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marebobowl
marebobowl
3 years ago
Reply to  crisisgarden

Because they are part and parcel of the great reset. What were they promised or paid?

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Old Bill
Old Bill
3 years ago

Disney world and the covid scamdemic seem to have an awful lot in common to my mind.

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TheyLiveAndWeLockdown
TheyLiveAndWeLockdown
3 years ago
Reply to  Old Bill

One of them is a place with lots of rules and uniformed people spouting things only children could believe and the other is Disneyland.

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Rogerborg
Rogerborg
3 years ago
Reply to  TheyLiveAndWeLockdown

My understanding is that the Magic Kingdom is a happy hunting ground for ruthless predators, and that the harm done to their child victims is hushed up.

So, yes, same-same.

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Emerald Fox
Emerald Fox
3 years ago
Reply to  Old Bill

Xi has a ‘special relationship’ with Disney.

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Richard Austin
Richard Austin
3 years ago

Well, if you create a virus and not a way of stopping it, you get no Mickey Mouse. What kind of idiots create a bug and do not know how to stop it? The Chinese and Tony Fauci.

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marebobowl
marebobowl
3 years ago
Reply to  Richard Austin

The Americans were involved in this bioweapon.

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Marcus Aurelius knew
Marcus Aurelius knew
3 years ago

NOT. AGAIN.

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stewart
stewart
3 years ago

The zero-covid policy is one that regards the population like a herd of cattle and the state is like the farmer. In such a society, your body is not yours, it belongs to the state and it can test you, isolate you, vaccinate you at any time it decides. You are quite literally a slave of the state.

And that is what our overlords aspire to for us as well.

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Rogerborg
Rogerborg
3 years ago

Last I checked, these “health” measures are being imposed in provinces and newish cities with a high proportion of Cantonese and Hakka speakers, and mobile migrant workers.

I’d suspect this may be their ruling class reminding uppity vassal groups that all comrades are equal, but Mandarin comrades are more equal than others.

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J4mes
J4mes
3 years ago

Have they got round to locking down chickens yet?

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Martin Frost
Martin Frost
3 years ago

Zero Covid was always a pipedream. Interesting that those who have practicised it the hardest are experiencing the biggest waves now. What are these authoritarian leaders seeking to prove exactly? That their strategy will work if only it is applied long and hard enough? 40 years to eradicate smallpox and it still emerges from time to time. Personally I blame the reverence accorded to this handful of fringe scientists (aka as THE science”) by a fawning media. For christ sake most of them are not even qualified to comment on these issues.

Last edited 3 years ago by Martin Frost
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civilliberties
civilliberties
3 years ago

May as well go to the doc and get a prescription for deja-vu

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
3 years ago

That’s another downer. Well it would be if I was planning on going to China and Disney land. Fortunately I’m planning neither, so I couldn’t give a F.

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David Beaton
David Beaton
3 years ago

Disney closing? Lucky Chinese!

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Cristi.Neagu
Cristi.Neagu
3 years ago

They’re getting ready to release a new virus upon the world, mark my words.

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Lockdown Sceptic
Lockdown Sceptic
3 years ago

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Perhaps Europe shouldn’t have planned their energy future around the rantings of a truant teenager?
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3 years ago

Closing Disney land? 3 hearty cheers for the disease, or rather the reactionto it! ANYTHING that adversely affects the crass Disney franchise can’t be all bad.

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