Category: lockdown

‘It Doesn’t Make Sense,’ Experts Trying to Explain White Lungs in China

While the official data from China reports mild disease and low mortalities surrounding the latest COVID-19 outbreaks, Chinese social media is awash with reports of “white lung,” a form of pneumonia often seen in moderate to severe disease. Anecdotal accounts of deaths after infections, and overwhelmed hospitals and morgues, have flooded Weibo and Chinese short-form video…


Concerning Reports of White Lungs in China, Experts Weigh In

While the official data from China reports mild disease and low mortalities surrounding the latest COVID-19 outbreaks, Chinese social media is awash with reports of “white lung,” a form of pneumonia often seen in moderate to severe disease. Anecdotal accounts of deaths after infections, and overwhelmed hospitals and morgues, have flooded Weibo and Chinese short-form video…


Shanghai Overwhelmed by Record-High Daily Emergency Cases and Funeral Home Overloads

Residents of Shanghai, China’s largest city of 25 million people, were caught off guard by the sudden reopening of the city after a prolonged lockdown and enforcement of zero-COVID measures. Reports indicate that the number of COVID cases in Shanghai continues to mount and is at a record high, and the crematoriums and funeral providers…


How China Changed its Zero-COVID Policy to a ‘Zero Non-COVID’ Policy

Commentary “Zero non-COVID” is the name that people in China are calling the regime’s new pandemic management policy. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has aggressively pushed the whole country towards an all-COVID-positive state. China’s annual rubber-stamp legislature is usually in session during the month of March. It is widely expected that the coming session will…


China’s COVID Chaos a ‘Horrible Indictment’ of US Leadership for Emulating CCP Lockdowns: Former White House Adviser

If the world can learn one thing from the COVID chaos in China, it is that “locking down does not work,” said healthcare policy adviser Dr. Scott Atlas. “We don’t even know really the extent of the harms to their population that they inflicted by locking down but we know anecdotally that there were massive…


Pandemic Worker Regrets the Easing of the Lockdowns in China

Zhao Lei (pseudonym) has worked as an epidemic control worker wearing white protective clothing since June. Beijing’s sudden easing of COVID-19 prevention measures meant he was terminated from his job. To him, the preventive volunteer job was a temporary but quick way to make money. Zhao said he wanted to continue doing the job for…


How an Occupied Twitter Ruined Countless Lives

Commentary From the beginning of the COVID panic, it felt that something was very wrong. Never had a pandemic, much less a seasonal pathogenic wave, been treated as a quasi-military emergency requiring the upending of all freedoms and rights. What made it more bizarre was how alone those of us who objected felt until very…


China’s Zero-COVID Policy a Shield for Windfall Revenues for Local Governments, Gene Companies

News Analysis Two crucial pillars of the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) zero-COVID policy, intensive testing and lockdowns, have formed a huge chain of interests that have depleted the state treasury and sacrificed people’s livelihoods, according to China expert Henghe. Since the beginning of December, China has lifted its zero-COVID restrictions and a new wave of the epidemic…


Pandemic Gave Rise to Government Surveillance, Abuse of Emergency Powers: Former Medical Ethicist

COVID-19 policies such as lockdowns, masking, and vaccine mandates were not just a method to control the outbreak of an infectious disease but were, in reality, a novel paradigm of governance that utilizes a declared state of emergency, said a former medical ethicist. These policies laid the groundwork for the rise of the biomedical security…


China’s Tax Base Drastically Reduced by Three Years of Zero-COVID  

China’s three-year “zero-COVID” approach has devastated the nation’s economy and fiscal revenue, and seriously diminished its tax base. Looking at the scale of the impact of zero-COVID on China’s economy, Zhang Tao, an economist serving China Construction Bank’s financial markets department, admitted in an article published on a Chinese tech company’s website Sina.com on Dec. 9 that…