The Real Reason Behind China’s “Zero-COVID” Policy
The Real Reason Behind China’s “Zero-COVID” Policy Authored by Kit Knightly via Off-Guardian.org, Most of the Western world is no longer in lockdown, some vaccine mandates are being loosened, mask wearers are distinctly the minority everywhere you look. For now at least, and for want of a better phrase, we have largely “gone back to normal”…except, you know, now with a totally broken economy, more centralised financial power, dozens of alarming precedents set up for future deployment and millions upon millions of people injected with poison under false pretences. But on the lockdown front at least, we’re normal…mostly. Lockdowns are quickly becoming one of those embarrassing things that were only ever supported by other people, like wearing flares or voting for Thatcher. Politicians are feverishly passing the buck back and forth, claiming to have never wanted lockdowns in the firstplace. …but not in China. As the rest of the world “lives with Covid”, people in Chinese cities are still subject to dystopian levels of control and surveillance. Up to and including being welded inside their own homes. Why? Well, we can certainly rule out a few mainstream “explanations”: We know it’s not because Covid is a real disease or uniquely dangerous in any way whatsoever. The data has spoken on that. We know it’s not because lockdowns work to protect the health of the public or prevent disease outbreaks. The data has spoken on that too. We know it’s not because the Chinese government holds the lives of their citizens as more precious than their Western counterparts. And we know it’s not because they were the victim of some bio-engineered viral attack by the West. That idea was always absurd. …so what’s the real explanation? Well, there are really several answers to that, all of which come back to our old
