Posted on 04/24/2022 7:26:52 PM PDT by blam
Hopes that the CCP might be easing its Shanghai lockdown were dashed this week as authorities loosened restrictions for manufacturers and others businesses, while mostly keeping restrictions on residential areas intact.
Instead of winding down restrictions in Shanghai, authorities are now scrambling to suppress an outbreak in Beijing which they believe may have been spreading for as long as a week. The capital city reported 22 new local cases on Sunday, its highest daily tally this year.
While the number of new cases would be considered inconsequential anywhere else, authorities have placed part of Beijing under high alert, cancelling classes in a middle school where cases were detected, with the shutdown expectected to last for at least a week.
As authorities mobilized to try and curb the spread with mass testing, which has helped to scare locals into bracing for a lockdown, spurring sudden runs on grocery stores and other businesses.
After masstesting was announced for the central Chaoyang district, photos of empty grocery store shelves flooded social media.
Chaoyang is the biggest district in Beijing and is home to nearly 3.5 million people.
Stock up, Beijing today. After mass Covid testing was announced for the central Chaoyang district this afternoon. pic.twitter.com/OPq1NhrJiT
— Tong Bingxue 仝冰雪 (@tongbingxue) April 24, 2022
Locals will be required to take three PCR tests during the coming week.
Anxious vibe in #Beijing Chaoyang area where 4 mn people (incl me & my family) worry a lockdown is coming. Mass testing for everyone & long lines + empty shelves at stores. Officials assure a ‘stable’ food supply but we’ve been stockpiling for days. @NBCNews (vid @freddufour_DOP) pic.twitter.com/c0RbfKXsmn
— Janis Mackey Frayer (@janisfrayer) April 24, 2022
On Friday, the city pledged to make “every effort” to deal with provide adequate food supplies, but truck drivers have already been hindered by multiple checkpoints and virus tests, leading to long waits.
But Beijing isn’t the only Chinese city facing Shaghai-style lockdowns. City leaders met Saturday evening in Hangzhou, a technology hub best known to westerners as the home of Alibaba, to discuss how they plan to respond after more than 100 new cases were detected in the city since Tuesday.
In other COVID news, Bloomberg reported Sunday that Foxconn’s factory in Zhengzhou, situated in the Zhengzhou Airport Economy Zone that hosts Foxconn’s iPhone City campus, will continue operating despite the surrounding city facing an indefinite lockdown.
It goes without saying that a major lockdown in Beijing would have a massive impact on China’s economy, which has seen growth shrivel in the face of the lockdown in Shanghai.
Why people wait until the emergency is upon them to act is way beyond me.
The warning signs have been there for years now.
When do we get to disconnect from this insane asylum of a country?
Out of control government.
Only if you are not prepared.
Communist China
It really wasn’t that long ago that this would not have been the case.
Everyone in Beijing should converge on Tiananmen Square and see what happens.
Saw it all the time in FL every time a hurricane came. Store shelves wiped out in one day, one day before it made landfall. TP, water, beer, plywood. LOL
It is okay China.
You only need a couple of weeks to flatten your curve...
Or something
When are the Chinese people gonna say FU?
OK, here’s the question — HOW LETHAL ARE THE INFECTIONS IN CHINA?
My gosh, we’ve had Omicron and the BA.2 subvariant for months and record number of people being infected in the USA but our hospitals are hardly being burdened.
How do we know that there are record number of infections? Because we have tens of millions of households being sent Covid test kits by the Feds.
One example -— I tested positive last March and did not even exhibit any symptoms ( unless a scratchy throat is considered one ). I would not even know that I had Covid if I never used the test kit. I tested NEGATIVE five days later.
How many millions of folks in the USA has similar experience to mine?
Its still too early to release the mandatory mail in ballot variant
“Scramble To Stockpile Food, Essentials”
Notice that the spontaneous response to the threat of a presumably deadly disease is to prepare for the deadly consequences of government coercion. So which is really the greater danger?
No kidding.....NOW??? They’re JUST NOW ‘scrambling’ to stockpile???
After all that the CCP has put them through???
The time for scrambling was at least two years ago.
China would crack.
China pulled this before, and we believed it and they stole an election... It’s a con.
Currently, all information leaving China is CCP propaganda to keep the China Virus 2019 going.
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