Since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, China’s behavior has been . . . opaque. Unhelpful. Suspicious. The Chinese Communist Government may have been involved in the creation of the virus, but, if so,
- it was likely created with the help of Fauci and U.S. taxpayers, and
- could have been deliberately or accidentally leaked to the Wuhan population. In any case,
- the lack of transparency early on meant a worldwide spread of the contagion.
That latter neglect may be especially galling to all of us outside of China, but it was no comfort inside China either, since as the disease hit the Chinese their leaders quickly resorted to nazi-like tactics. Most specifically, the government stuck to a Zero-COVID policy, which was astoundingly cruel and totalitarian.
That policy has been shown to have zero efficacy. “As many as 37 million people are contracting COVID-19 in a single day in China,” The Epoch Times informs us, “according to leaked minutes from a meeting of the country’s top health body confirmed by multiple news outlets.”
What’s gone wrong? Well, “the regime’s stringent zero-COVID policy has left the Chinese public with little natural immunity against COVID-19’s highly contagious Omicron variant, which appears to be spinning out of control in the country.”
Alas, both in China and in the West, the notion of natural immunity was evaded. America’s government-funded experts have discouraged discussion of it, and the Chinese rulers thought it more important to prevent any form of spread. Hence totalitarian lockdowns.
All pointless, now, as hospitals and morgues are flooded with COVID patients from a weakened populace.
Is this just human stupidity? Or is it something more sinister?
This is Common Sense. I’m Paul Jacob.
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2 replies on “The Zero Tolerance Policy That Failed”
Stupid or sinister doesn’t matter now. (I vote for sinister.) The damage has been done, much of it self-inflicted by the government and bureaucrats and health care providers who prevented real investigation of the virus’s impact almost from the start. Legitimate questions and suggestions that there might be better ways to handle the pandemic were not just suppressed. People who voiced concern saw their livelihoods threatened. As a result, most government health directives are now distrusted or even ignored. Distrust of government is a cancer that will spread because no harm will come to those who did us great harm, starting with Dr. Fauci..
In my view it is democide.