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The China Syndrome

Guest Post by Alex Berenson

Xi Jinping’s quest for zero Covid has turned Shanghai – China’s wealthiest city – into a 25,000,000-person prison. No one seems to know exactly why.

Shanghai’s Covid lockdown – now in its third week – has gone bad.

How bad?

We can’t be sure. Chinese censorship has reached levels woke bluechecks can only dream of. But posts and videos, like this one from last week, have leaked out. They paint a picture of a giant city under extraordinary pressure, its 25 million inhabitants locked in apartments and struggling to keep their refrigerators and pantries stocked.

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The Shanghai Catastrophe: Lockdown Ideology at Its Most Extreme

Via Brownstone Institute

By Jordan Schachtel

Highlight the hundreds of millions of victims of communism, and its advocates are known to try to rebut the evidence by claiming that real communism has never been tried.

As an extension of this debate, the global Public Health cartel, whose advocates relentlessly pursue totalitarian solutions to attempt to stop a virus from spreading, are known to defend their lockdown advocacy by claiming that real lockdowns have never been tried. When faced with the reality that lockdowns have failed everywhere they have been tried, the lockdown advocates push back by claiming that such lockdowns are not up to their Pyongyang Standard of authoritarian rule.

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