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You’ve heard many explanations for the cascade of Covid lockdowns in 2020. You’ve never heard this one. (And it’s fascinating.)

Guest Post by Alex Berenson

Did an earthquake in Italy in April 2009 help fuel the catastrophic overreaction to the coronavirus 12 years later?

China started the Covid lockdowns.

But Italy spread them worldwide.

On February 22, 2020, as the coronavirus receded in China, Italian authorities closed several towns, making Italy the first Western country to quarantine its citizens.

Nine days later, Italy closed its schools. Then, on March 9, it announced a national lockdown, testing “what a democracy can do during peacetime,” the Washington Post wrote.

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Italy began moving before the British epidemiologist Neil Ferguson had created his terrifying projections that Covid would collapse health care systems. (Ferguson loves a good disaster, or at least a good disaster prediction – in 2005, he promised 200 million bird flu deaths.)

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How China Locks Down Over 1 Billion People

Via Mercola

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Story at-a-glance

  • The official policy in China is aimed at zero COVID cases in the country. They have locked down over 1 billion people to stop the spread of a virus from a family of cold viruses known to have an animal reservoir
  • This means to achieve zero COVID China must kill every living animal, close all borders to people moving into or out of the country and change crews for all imports and exports on planes, trains and trucks to completely isolate the people
  • The goal is likely not zero COVID since one government adviser told a reporter, “eventually everyone will have to live with the virus.” In the meantime, people are starving in their homes, their pets are beaten to death, food is being thrown away and adults and children are being force vaccinated in their homes and on the street
  • Roughly 26 million Shanghai residents, 1 out of 3 of whom are elderly, have been unable to go to the store or get medication starting March 28, 2022, and if they test positive, they are forced to quarantine in metal cubicle cities without temperature control or running water in their hut

Official Chinese policy is aimed at zero COVID cases, infections or deaths in the country.1 To that end, they locked down more than half of the country’s largest cities,2 including 26 million people in Shanghai.

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Beijing Under Partial Lock Down As Virus Death Toll Tops 900; More Than 40,000 Infected

Via ZeroHedge

Summary:

  • Virus death toll hits 902, vastly surpassing all of  SARS (813) in only three weeks
  • The number of global confirmed cases hits 40,553 in China (40,171) and offshore (382)
  • WHO Director-General warns “we may only be seeing the tip of the iceberg”
  • Exiled Chinese billionaire says true death toll closer to 50k, 1.5 million infected
  • New cases confirmed in UK, Spain, Singapore
  • Passengers aboard ‘Diamond Princess’ warn authorities aren’t doing enough to protect them – and others
  • Officials in Shenzen say they won’t block Foxxconn factory reopening
  • Cruise ship quarantined in Hong Kong allowed to leave after 4 days

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