Shanghai residents are screaming to be let out of their apartments

As we all know, China has a zero tolerance policy when it comes to Covid. Any cluster of cases results in entire cities going into lockdown. Shanghai is of course a massive city. I can’t imagine the tension being built up there.

it’s interesting to see how different governments deal with Covid. Some have a zero tolerance policy while others have no changes in their way of life. Here in America we are in between.
 
So they just starve the population ???

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Peter Gozintite said:
I will probably never visit China. Probably no countries that you can be held guilty until proven innocent. The Chinese government be wildin'
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Same, which sucks because I'd love to see Beijing or the Great Wall but no chance in hell I'd go there now.
 
The whole zero Covid thing is such a weird turn to me. They clearly were lying/under-reporting numbers before and now going this drastic? Completely overcompensating maybe not out of their own guilt but knowing the rest of the world sees them as guilty and want to save face in some way?
 
That is an ass fucked nightmare!

China just being China. They are so lucky that the latest spike waited until after the Olympics, just like Putin.

It’s pure madness.
We’ve all had bad colds here the last few weeks. Two home COVID tests were taken and said negative. But, I don’t know. There has been some case climb locally, lots of students and teachers going down. Feels like a spike. And the only one in this whole family that hasn’t even had a sniffle….my daughter who is the only one to get the booster so far (needed it for travel).

If this is the latest strain….well….it wasn’t a simply couple day cold, but it wasn’t much worse than that.

That’s hardly something to lock 12 million people in their home for.
 
Peter Gozintite said:
I will probably never visit China. Probably no countries that you can be held guilty until proven innocent. The Chinese government be wildin'
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I had to visit China (well, pass through Chinese customs on route to Thailand) with a passport that had my name spelled wrong and differently than on my plane ticket. Through a little trickery, and some shithouse luck, I was able to forge through. I mean literally forge as in I had to kinda/sorta forge my own signature. To make matters worse, this was during the time a couple of years ago when two Canadians were being held as spies.
 
steelerssb said:
The whole zero Covid thing is such a weird turn to me. They clearly were lying/under-reporting numbers before and now going this drastic? Completely overcompensating maybe not out of their own guilt but knowing the rest of the world sees them as guilty and want to save face in some way?
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Haven’t they been doing this since January 2020 though?
 
I’d like to travel the Silk Road and meet indigenous peoples and mongols.

CGina is rich with history and eco culture.
 
broncosmitty said:
Haven’t they been doing this since January 2020 though?
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I know they've SAID zero Covid but I always kinda figured that just involved heavily cooking the books, not going to these extremes. If I remember correctly, Wuhan during the first ever outbreak is the only city to get this level of lockdown (could be wrong on that).
 
Peter Gozintite said:
I will probably never visit China. Probably no countries that you can be held guilty until proven innocent. The Chinese government be wildin'
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i had to go to China for business. I was only there a couple of days (Guangzhou) and the company that asked me to come had a driver (who was dressed in a sort of military uniform) pick me up at the airport and for 2.5 days this guy literally stayed in the car outside my hotel for most of the time.

I stayed at a nice hotel very close to the US embassy (Westin I think) and on the last day I said to the driver that I wanted to walk around the park which was across the street from my hotel. He said he would go with me but I told him I wanted to walk it by myself. He just grunted and let me go but he was never more than a couple hundred feet away bc he followed me.

The first thing that struck me about this park was there were cameras everywhere. I mean like every few feet there was a camera mounted on a pole. The next thing I noticed was how clean the place was. No graffiti or even a scrap of paper on the ground. Guangzhou is a huge city of about 13M people (at least at that time) and this place was immaculate.

anyway, I walked around the park and then on my back to the hotel I walked along the street which brought me by the US embassy. As I got to the embassy I saw several 3 person teams of Chinese police stopping everyone who tried to go into the embassy. I didn’t try to go in but one of these teams stopped me (probably bc I was American). At first they spoke to me in Chinese but when I said I didn’t speak Chinese they switched to English. They demanded to see my passport which I knew enough to carry with me. However, before I could produce it my driver (who had been following me the entire time) came running up and started yelling at them in Chinese. Their demeanor changed immediately and the officer wouldn’t even take my passport as I tried to hand it to them. My driver just said “you can put that away and leave”. TBH I hesitated bc I wasn’t sure what to do but eventually I just left. To this day I have no idea what he said to them.

It’s an incredibly different way of life for them
 
steelerssb said:
I know they've SAID zero Covid but I always kinda figured that just involved heavily cooking the books, not going to these extremes. If I remember correctly, Wuhan during the first ever outbreak is the only city to get this level of lockdown (could be wrong on that).
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they’ve done this level of lockdown several times in some very big cities.
 
steelerssb said:
I know they've SAID zero Covid but I always kinda figured that just involved heavily cooking the books, not going to these extremes. If I remember correctly, Wuhan during the first ever outbreak is the only city to get this level of lockdown (could be wrong on that).
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I don’t trust any numbers from communist countries. I know China doesn’t count asymptomatic cases as confirmed cases. But I thought Shanghai was getting high case counts by the time they were locked down? Idk. Zero tolerance seems impossible unless you are an island.

I remember the initial wave of wtf is this, when we saw people running down streets and being dragged into vans by people in hazmat suits. Then Wuhan went on lockdown.

And during the Olympics I feel like Mike Turico told me there were like 25 million Chinese on lockdown. Maybe I just bridged it all together, idk.
 
Like I said, in hindsight, we should have just let Japan take over China in WW2
 
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