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Lockdowns spark resistance even in China
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BEIJING – Residents left starving inside makeshift quarantine centers fashioned out of shipping containers. Businesses forbidden from selling goods – even online. A baby reportedly tested for COVID 74 times. These are some of the stories emerging from Ruili, a southwestern Chinese town famed for the quality of its jade. Situated on the border with Myanmar, Ruili has been battered by three successive lockdowns in the last year, pulling the town of about 270,000 people into the center of a fiery debate online about who must shoulder the costs of China's zero-COVID policies. Online, thousands of Ruili residents have begun posting descriptions of the conditions they face and desperate messages for help. The response? An even greater volume of online vitriol from fellow Chinese citizens who believe the rigid quarantine policies are worth the human cost. "I feel like our entire city has been abandoned by the rest of the country," said a jade trader surnamed Wang. He wanted to use only his family name because he fears state and online retribution: "I do not feel like I am living in China right now." |
That's one way to slow down covid.... starve out anyone who gets it.
I recall in 2020 that the PRC was welding shut the metal doors on apartment complexes in Wuhan where covid patients resided. Wonder what THEIR vaccine mandates look like... your choice, shot in the arm or shot in the head :rolleyes: |
Originally Posted by rickair7777
(Post 3319153)
That's one way to slow down covid.... starve out anyone who gets it.
I recall in 2020 that the PRC was welding shut the metal doors on apartment complexes in Wuhan where covid patients resided. Wonder what THEIR vaccine mandates look like... your choice, shot in the arm or shot in the head :rolleyes: |
Wasn’t NPR the same “news” organization giddy to the point of onanism over the “Arab spring”? How’d that work out? (I’d list a dozen others, but yawn).
NPR is a state level propaganda machine, nothing more. Has been for decades. Like Pravda in the 70s-80s, useful in its own way to know what you’re “supposed” to be thinking about things. For the linked story “Covid is out there…it could be resurgent at any second, a deadly pandemic reblossoming in the land of the Orient…mandatory vaccines, masks, lockdowns are for your own good…” China is opaque as it gets anyway; there used to be a few decent reporters working out of Hong Kong, wouldn’t know where to look now, but you’d have to start with a native born Westerner fluent in Mandarin and English at the very least. They’re few and far between. |
Originally Posted by av8or
(Post 3319180)
some of the comments on here have only been a couple steps removed from that.
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Originally Posted by DeltaboundRedux
(Post 3319271)
Wasn’t NPR the same “news” organization giddy to the point of onanism over the “Arab spring”? How’d that work out? (I’d list a dozen others, but yawn).
NPR is a state level propaganda machine, nothing more. Has been for decades. Like Pravda in the 70s-80s, useful in its own way to know what you’re “supposed” to be thinking about things. For the linked story “Covid is out there…it could be resurgent at any second, a deadly pandemic reblossoming in the land of the Orient…mandatory vaccines, masks, lockdowns are for your own good…” China is opaque as it gets anyway; there used to be a few decent reporters working out of Hong Kong, wouldn’t know where to look now, but you’d have to start with a native born Westerner fluent in Mandarin and English at the very least. They’re few and far between. |
Originally Posted by rickair7777
(Post 3319311)
I also look at FNC, because sometimes they do cover breaking news that the MSM won't touch until it develops more.
It's not that CNN/MSNBC/NPR make things up, it's that they suppress. |
Originally Posted by rickair7777
(Post 3319311)
I also look at FNC, because sometimes they do cover breaking news that the MSM won't touch until it develops more.
Originally Posted by GogglesPisano
(Post 3319323)
This is exactly why I went back to watching FNC last year during the "mostly peaceful protests." All news organizations slant one way or another. But some will report facts that the other side chooses to ignore.
It's not that CNN/MSNBC/NPR make things up, it's that they suppress. But when I started to pay more attention to it, what you guys reference seemed to be true. FNC would be covering things that weren't even being mentioned on the others. As far as "not that making things up", that's a hard one to be absolute on. As an example, Don Lemon and Brian Stelter on on CNN have, shall we say, not been reporting with that much integrity... ...not that many do, depending. But those 2 are off the rails. |
Originally Posted by GogglesPisano
(Post 3319323)
This is exactly why I went back to watching FNC last year during the "mostly peaceful protests." All news organizations slant one way or another. But some will report facts that the other side chooses to ignore.
It's not that CNN/MSNBC/NPR make things up, it's that they suppress. |
Originally Posted by Flyfalcons
(Post 3319836)
The Nick Sandman thing was completely made up. Among other fabrications.
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