China anti-lockdown protests spreads
Largely away from the mainstream media glare, the Chinese covid bio-security state has finally started to show some cracks.
Discontent against the Chinese government's strict “zero covid” policy has been rising in the communist dictatorship country. What has catapulted this simmering anger into a full-blown protest is the deadly fire at an apartment complex in Urumqi, the capital city of Xinjiang. According to reports, the fire claimed at least ten lives and injured 9.
According to reports, the access to the apartment building had been welded shut by the authorities as part of Xi’s covid mitigation strategy.
The protests quickly turned anti-CCP and leader Xi Jinping. Hundreds of Chinese citizens in Shanghai streets chanted, “Step down, Xi Jinping! Step down, Communist Party!” The blank placard sheets have become a powerful cry of defiance.
A man could later be seen berating the crowd for their protest.
"One day you’ll pay for everything you did today," he said in videos seen by Reuters.
"The state will also have to pay the price for what it has done," people shouted back.
As a large-scale outbreak of covid infections spreads across China, the protests have also spread to various parts of the country, including dozens of university campuses. ‘We need democracy, rule of law, and freedom of expression!’ chant students at Tsinghua University in Beijing, Chinese president Xi Jinping’s alma mater; call for an end to lockdowns and mass testing gathers steam on social media.
China, some experts believe, has a majority of its citizens unexposed to the virus due to harsh lockdown measures of the Chinese Communist Party.
What is alarming in this background is that many academics, intellectuals, public health experts, and leaders of the “free world” had recommended and almost implemented the same Chinese-style mitigation strategy for the rest of the world. These individuals, so far, have escaped unscathed from any accountability.
These CCP-style measures did not work in the US, thanks partially due to our Second Amendment rights. But folks would remember that in India, entire housing societies were sealed shut in Mumbai, Delhi, and other metro cities at the mere detection of a single “positive” case.
The risk of covid had a demographic gradient right from the beginning. Even among the most vulnerable, the IFR was less than 1%.
Covid infection in healthy people pre-vaccine faced from Covid-19 was exaggerated in many countries, including India. This gross exaggeration created a kind of hysteria, fanned mainly by the rich and educated, not seen in decades.
I hope to see some accountability in the free world as well.