Guest Post by Martin Armstrong
People are starving in Shanghai. The screams heard in the disturbing video above are due to more than mere frustration. China placed millions under a strict lockdown that was initially supposed to last for five days. As cases allegedly spread, China extended the lockdown indefinitely under their zero-COVID tolerance policy.
Those who prepared for a five-day lockdown are now rationing what food and water they have left. The tap water is not necessarily safe for consumption, and people have begun to boil water if they have the means to do so. According to my sources, people living within communities rally together to buy bulk food orders when possible for a premium. China is offering a closed-loop system for some workers, who must live at their job site for the remainder of the lockdown.
Therefore, workers are in short supply, and demand is extremely high. Hungry citizens typically log on to food delivery apps early in the morning and usually only have a few minutes to place their bulk orders. The food they receive is carefully rationed as the next meal is not guaranteed.
The barter system always emerges in times of disaster. People are trading with one another where possible, although they are forbidden from actually leaving their residences. No one is permitted to visit relatives or check on the elderly or disabled. Worse, people are unable to access medical care or prescription drugs. The government continues to provide rationed food, but its rollout has been so ineffective that most simply do not have access to food.
China will allow its people to die from dehydration and starvation to protect them from a virus with a negligible death rate. This is how revolutions begin.
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There is no rational explanation for these actions. Choose your conspiracy theory.
Eugenics!
People fell for those videos out of China that showed people dropping dead in the street and Chinese officials welding people in apartment buildings early in the Covid virus panic, and now people are falling for videos alleging Chinese officials are forcing people to stay inside without access to food or anything else.
Like the alleged atrocities in the Ukraine our media claims are happening, sorry, I don’t believe anymore. It’s all lies. The West is burning to the ground as our leaders destroy all that was good about our countries so you’ll excuse me if I don’t care about China or the Ukraine. People didn’t buy into the Ukraine good, Russia bad so we need to go to war narrative so TPTB are ramping up the Covid fear narrative yet again.
Indeed, the “lockdowns” in China were meant to “set the stage” for atrocities in the west. For all we know, nobody was really locked down, but it made good “justification” for doing it here. We’ve got mid-terms coming up, and lots of pissed off Americans going to the polls will undermine their planned repeat of the truckloads of fake absentee ballots plan. Some are actually calling for the same kind of bullshit in western nations, saying that China and Shanghai are the models of what everyone should do….as if ZERO Covid is actually achievable (if there even is a virus, etc.).
Frankly lots of videos of people breaking through and hopefully breaking heads might actually inspire more of the same in other countries. Hopefully its a trend.
But but muh social credit score…
The Chinese people need to take to the streets in huge numbers and throw the bums the hell out.
That’s putting it mildly.
Tucker’s monologue yesterday was about Shanghai. He said the lockdown was about crushing freedom. Shanghai, he said, is the most open-minded city in China, and among the richest, and this quest for more liberties must be stopped. Hence, the lockdown.
He also said this is yet another preview of what may be coming to Amerika …. as this covid-fear bullshit is far from over, since mid-term elections are coming up, and covid horseshit will again be used to garner millions of fake votes. Indeed, the Dems are already saying Putin (Putin!!!!) is preparing to interfere in the midterms!
I think Tucker is correct.
Amazing isn’t it? American politics constantly prattle on about how America is the strongest, best, mightiest, wealthiest, most moral blah blah blah yet PUTIN is able to subvert our elections?
Now, how could that even be possible? Electronic voting connected to the internet.
Amazing how many people still have their heads stuck up their asses.
Not sure I believe any of it, at this point.
A very low number of videos, showing very little, and impossible to verify or refute for non-Chinese speaking/reading audience.
Metallicman, who lives close by, writes nothing of any problems there – and last post of his was from today.
Scroll down to “Sigh. Americans.” (He is putting in cooking recipes and videos, to throw off the Bots.)
I don’t believe it AT ALL. There’s no way 26.5 million are complying and there’s no way a city that big can function without hordes of necessary workers moving about at the least. We’re in the twilight zone of absolutely nothing believable on media and the ability to create ANY kind of video or photo out of thin air completely indistinguishable from reality from the ‘humans’ to the dust on the table.
Maybe. I hope not.
However this is a psych war with fear being the main weapon. Now the headlines are about food shortages.
All good propaganda contains some truth.
I’m even beginning to doubt the AIDS/injection connection. Fear. It serves their purposes too well.
Somebody even quoted Fox News here. Weird.
Tucker for president coming up.
I put Faux News right up there with the rest of their friends at the mainstream media.
Tucker is pretty much the only person on Fox worth quoting (especially since they kicked Judge Napolitano off forever). But even he speaks in a restrained manner that gives way too many the benefit of the doubt.
Question: Why do we believe this narrative when we don’t believe the Ukraine/Russia narrative coming from the same sources?
I don’t know.
Because we’ve been told how oppressive communist regimes are and how conformist the Chinese are?
Because, although our gov’t has been taken over, and we are fighting inflation, perversion, and oppression, we can take some small pleasure in the fact that at least WE are not locked in our apartments and starving (yet)?
Because we don’t know any better? (Competing narratives on Covid and Ukraine, but not on Shanghai?)
I suspect that we are in for major upheavals in society due to the fact that there is no one and nothing that can be trusted any longer. I mean, seriously, you cannot trust your Media, Internet, Gov’t (at all levels), Banks, Doctor, Lawyer, Teacher, Cop, Boss, Customer, Religious Leader, Charity, Manufacturers & Suppliers, Neighbors, Significant Others…etc.
Is there really any institution that can claim any credibility at the moment?
Does not seem to be. What will that do in the long run?
Not fallin’ for that again. Me being forced to clean my plate as a kid ’cause “people are starving in china”.