Shanghai’s Covid Lockdown is a Human Rights Atrocity
Where is the WHO? Where is Dr. Tedros? Where is the illustrious Bill Gates? Their silence is a warning to us all.
Hey, all of my five subscribers! Sorry, I’ve been busy fighting the man, for reals. And have you noticed all that talk about the World Economic Forum and Davos lately? Hmmmm, I like to think I started the trend way back when, when I called Davos Man the scourge of the earth and created an entire Substack to promote the idea that the Chinese Communist Party is adored by the Davos Universe; they’re merely wokefying it for you. In fact, this is why the Eurocrats and all the Patron Saints of the Covidian Church are silent on Shanghai. Remember…silence is violence! (Yes, that only works for global corporate and government-sponsored social causes.)
Here’s my two renminbi, published in a newspaper near you, and by Inside Sources today. (Though they uploaded an unedited version. Here’s the real one below.)
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When will the hallowed multilateral institutions of Western democracy call out China for its merciless human rights violations in Shanghai, one of the world’s most famous, if not beloved, cities? Where is the esteemed Dr. Tedros of the World Health Organization? Where is Bill Gates, the man who once said China was a Covid fighting exemplar? Where are these people?
If there is one thing you should know about China it is this – whatever the Chinese Communist Party does to its people, you can count on the C-suites and jet-setting philanthropist class of the Western world to be quiet. The more harm they cause, the deeper these guys bury their heads in the sand. But imagining if they were not such a bunch of beta boy cowards allowing the Chinese to be some God-awful societal experimental lab rat, they would say that what they see happening in Shanghai disgusts them and no Western nation should copy them.
What’s happening?
Shanghai is on lockdown. It is, in fact, the city’s first full-fledged, Wuhan-style lockdown. In 2020, they had closed schools and work-from-home policies, but no one was locked in their homes with mandatory testing. There were no lines as long as a Six Flags roller coaster ride on July fourth weekend to get an 8-inch cotton swab stuck up your nose. That didn’t exist. It does now.
Some 26 million people are barricaded in their homes.
If your kid is sick, they are sent to a quarantine center. If you test positive, too, you can join them. If you have pets at home, they will be left to starve. “Public health authorities” – now some of the most despised people on Earth – especially in China – round up dogs and cats left alone to cull them. People are seen in social media posts screaming from their apartment windows.
Shanghai is a hell hole. Shanghai is emblematic of what two years of Covid policies have done to the souls of millions – punished them, destroyed them, humiliated them. Hated them.
The Port of Shanghai – the world’s largest -- is technically open, but there is no one to work. Expect supply chain problems in the weeks ahead and more inflation here at home.
China’s “zero Covid” policy is D student level public health management. Many in the West think China did great against Covid, with all its masking and lockdowns, and obedience.
According to Johns Hopkins University, only seven people died of Covid in Shanghai. If you believe only 7 people died of Covid in Shanghai over the last two years, then you think it makes sense for China’s public health officials to close a global city like Shanghai in order to save approximately 7 more lives.
Will the social contract between the “Shanghainese” and the Chinese government be torn asunder? It is hard to know. I suspect the CCP can’t possibly keep Shanghai on lockdown for much longer. Wuhan was locked down for nearly a month. Shanghai is going on week three.
What we do know is that the WHO and our own Center for Disease Control will never say Shanghai’s actions are not the way to fight disease. Their silence should be taken as a sign. They are watching to see if this “works”, so they can do it, too.
Remember, lockdowns were first Made in China.
I believe there is a reason the policy and agenda-setting institutions are quiet about Shanghai. They don’t want the CCP to look bad. There is a reason for that.
The Western establishment loves the CCP model – from its economic management to its social management. They’re just “wokefying” it for their educated audiences at home.
If they are successful, I suspect one day you will see New Yorkers screaming from Chelsea to Harlem, “let us out of here”, as the local “experts” with Masters degrees in public health from storied universities, slaughter their dogs and send their PCR-positive 10-year-old to the local Holiday Inn to recover from a disease that has a 0.001% chance of causing them harm.
Shanghai is suffering. Who will admit it?
Surely not those who wish to one day emulate it.
>> But imagining if they were not such a bunch of beta boy cowards allowing the Chinese to be some God-awful societal experimental lab rat, they would say that what they see happening in Shanghai disgusts them and no Western nation should copy them.
This isn't simply because they're cowards- most of them aren't. They're silent because they're cynical, unprincipled profiteers that have gotten insanely rich doing business in China and the atrocities of the PRC simply don't directly harm their elite spaces yet.
They are people who chose to do business with tyrants, thieves, and monsters. They're silent first and foremost because they're fine with their choices.