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Elizabeth Hart's avatar

Remember the reports of people being sealed in their homes in China? The precedents for lockdowns and restrictions around the world...

Interesting to look back on that now, see for example:

- Sealed in: Chinese trapped at home by coronavirus feel the strain, Reuters, 23 February 2020: https://www.reuters.com/article/world/sealed-in-chinese-trapped-at-home-by-coronavirus-feel-the-strain-idUSKCN20G0AY/

Some videos:

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0K0YFQ8Ww5A

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggr06iCYPMA

- https://www.scmp.com/video/china/3176355/residents-locked-inside-homes-wires-and-bolts-due-covid-19

It's incredible to think back on all this now, the biggest psyops in history!

Absolutely mortifying to think how people were sucked in by all this z-grade movie scenario that has caused such deliberate destruction in our societies.

And China must have been complicit in it...who was coordinating all this, the actual perpetrators pulling the strings?

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Jessica Hockett's avatar

Great reminders, Elizabeth. Will add to this post or post as separate entry.

I agree there is a precedent aspect, but the message to "the West" from the perpetrators is also "No matter what your government does to you, it's not doing what China is doing to its people."

Was China doing what these stories and videos depict?

As you say, China is complicit, at least.

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Elizabeth Hart's avatar

Re "but the message to "the West" from the perpetrators is also "No matter what your government does to you, it's not doing what China is doing to its people.""

Remember I'm in Australia...

It was bad here. 'No Jab, No Job' to 'No Jab, No Life' was widespread across the country.

Melbourne was the lockdown/restriction city of the world - here's an example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XE1cj7vjuyY

Here's a story about a block of flats that was locked down: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/jul/04/we-thought-we-were-australian-melbourne-tower-lockdown-lives-on-in-legacy-of-trauma

And: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-07-24/melbourne-public-housing-tower-covid-lockdown-compensation/102640898

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Jessica Hockett's avatar

Yes. "Down Under" was a different story.

Lockdowns worked in Australia, NZ, Germany, and Japan! No excess death - even negative excess in the case of Australia and NZ.

What's the explanation for that?

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James Jones's avatar

great!!

"the Old Boss has returned as the New Boss."

Pete Townshend nailed it 55yrs ago:

"meet the new boss; same as the old boss ......."

"and the men who spurred us on; sit in judgement of all wrong; they decide and the shotgun sings the song ....."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDfAdHBtK_Q

(listen with volume turned up)

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Jessica Hockett's avatar

Yep! ("Teenage Wasteland" is still The Who's best song though!) :)

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James Jones's avatar

we can agree to differ!!

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TNK's avatar

Baba O'Riley ;-)

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Jessica Hockett's avatar

Can we talk about the real title of "Don't Stop Believin'"? :)

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Jessica Hockett's avatar

You got me. Well done!

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Michael Carter's avatar

Will the people who perpetrated all this own up to what they did? Will the MSM ever do an honest report on all that happened, who was running the show, who benefited,etc? We keep getting little bits from various authors like you JH. I honestly think the money is so great that things like the graft in the NGO's, the lying about covid, and backroom billionaires scheming will never be brought to light. I'm in that age group that could live a year or two or 10 or 15 so I'm guessing the best I will get is an occasional glimmer of non-mainstream reporting , like JH, but no courtroom drama of Fauci, Bourla, etc telling the world what really happened and being prosecuted.

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James Jones's avatar

"he’s backed by a much louder chorus singing from the ‘China Virus’ songbook"

yup; we noticed the volume is being turned up;

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James Jones's avatar

like that story where your mate sets off a firecracker in the corner; everyone turns around to look; and you quietly help yourself to a wallet or two .......

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Thomas V's avatar

I've given a lot of thought and research on China and their response. Despite my Panda article suggesting otherwise, I've come to the conclusion that China did not lockdown in the sense that we in the west think, not even in Wuhan. At least not in 2020. And I am unable to see any evidence that China was complicit to fear mongering or promoting lockdowns.

Here are a few links and reasons:

1. https://www.cdc.gov/museum/timeline/covid19.html#Early-2020

It's the WHO that said Wuhan was locked down. Not the Chinese.

2.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7219722/

This article examines the response in China up until may 2020, and suggests:

1. The main government response: "a large-scale, multilevel health education campaign was implemented in China."

2. "Chinese citizens followed the hygiene recommendations of health authorities very well"

3. Some travel restrictions were implemented in Wuhan. See Table 6.

4. "With daily decreases in the number of new cases, we conclude that Chinese measures to curb the spread of COVID-19 has been effective."

In other words, the point of the article is simply (and as expressly stated in the conclusion): "China’s emergency management of SARS was heavily criticized in 2003, and the Chinese government has improved its epidemic response capacity since then." There is no hint that the population was locked down, mistreated, or induced to panic. What this article does suggest is that China pounded a flea to death with a sledge hammer just to make certain they weren't criticized again.

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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hxCbD0SVVIk

This is a news cast by WION made in 2020. Note the host plays 5 or 6 viral videos, all supposedly coming out of China. It seems that the news is here promoting hysterical fear of covid, while the CCP was trying to minimize fear (by denouncing the videos and offering more reasonable explanations of their contents).

For instance, in the video of trucks spraying, there were people on the streets, showing both that there was no lockdown, and that the spray wasn't toxic.

4.

http://en.qstheory.cn/2020-04/23/c_465709.htm

26 March 2020 speech by Xi Jinping at  the Extraordinary G20 Leaders' Summit. Xi advises 4 things:

1. "improve information sharing."

2. " a collective response for control and treatment at the international level."

3. "develop science-based and proper control and treatment and minimize cross-border spread."

4. "I want to call on all G20 members to take collective actions - cutting tariffs, removing barriers, and facilitating the unfettered flow of trade."

The fourth point (worrying more about trade than covid) was the emphasis).

His idea of "control and treatment" was never stated but we may assume he was in favor of their own "successful" response, meaning personal hygiene  and possibly some travel restrictions. One would be hard pressed to find any supporting evidence that Xi was stirring up fear and panic, or promoting the crazy lockdowns that subsequently happened around the world.

A detailed time line of events in China as published by the CCP is here:

https://china-cee.eu/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Fighting-Covid19-china-in-action.pdf

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Thomas V's avatar

In early 2020 President Xi addressed the CCP about covid. His lengthy speech (which I read and studied, but have lost the link to it) makes clear that:

1. China was never locked down.

2. Wuhan had a few travel restrictions.

3. New year celebrations were lengthened so as to keep a few places closed a little longer.

4. His goal was to increase production and consumption of goods within China.

5. A major priority was promoting calm and confidence among the population.

It was this speech and that it was published openly, that convinced me that China was not behind either the covid panic or the ludicrous lockdowns.

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Jessica Hockett's avatar

Thanks; I have some thoughts and will come back to this after the Easter holidays.

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Pete Ross's avatar

"Meanwhile, we also want to call for data sharing. When you are talking something about global public health, data sharing is everything. We now have new techniques, technologies, and science there, but if we didn’t share data, the data would hide in your drawers, which wouldn’t help."

George F Gao | Global Health Must Go Global

https://www.ghd.pku.edu.cn/English/News/15ee82f7f48e4bf28c58378d42e4f2fe.htm

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Thomas V's avatar

Thanks for sharing that link to George Gao's speech. Very interesting. Here are a few key quotes:

1. "I was involved in discovering the virus SARS-CoV-2 from the beginning. After 10 days, on 10th January 2020, China CDC released the genome sequence of SARS-CoV-2 in GISAID. Everybody in the world started to work on the vaccine development because you had this data available on the key site. Within one week, we got everything."

2. "we, the world, were not awake and didn’t realize the virus was so serious and clever."

3. "from the very beginning, when we had this prototype virus isolated from Wuhan, it was so pathogenic that we could not do the “Herd Immunity” strategy then."

4. "Bill Gates claimed something about the prevention control for the next pandemic and what we can do together in his recent paper."

5. "I was involved in the “EVENT 201”."

6. "Think about why we have so many viruses. Why is it global? That is due to human behavior change, climate change, and ecological changes. It’s a really big event."

7. "we published the data and shared the data in The Lancet entitled “A novel coronavirus outbreak of global health concern” with Dr. Chen Wang and Peter W Horby from Oxford and Frederick G Hayden from Virginia. We four knew something together on 24th January 2020, as written in the Lancet, that this coronavirus, a novel corona, could be a global health concern."

8. "In 2016, I was asked by a journal called Trends in Microbiology to write a review, there I claimed something about coronavirus- “it is likely not a matter of if, but when, the next recombinant CoV will emerge and cause another outbreak in the human population.” "

9. "I wrote a book called “Influenza Virus: An unavoidable enemy” published in 2018."

Here are my thoughts on the above 7 points:

1. His claim that once the sequence was published the world could start working on a vaccine is very troubling. He of all people should have known that sequences are at best mathematical summaries and therefore not suitable for vaccine development.

2. The only things "clever" about covid is that it knew where to strike to maximize global fear, and it knew not to strike until governments responded to it.

3. His claim that in early 2020 covid was too pathogenic to allow for a herd immunity strategy in China is simply laughable nonsense. The data from China in early 2020 reveal both that deaths were negligible gligible and that covid was not spreading. See: https://pandata.org/revisiting-china-did-a-pandemic-really-start-in-wuhan/

4. Why in the world would this educated virologist give any lip service to an uneducated and non scientific man like Bill Gates?

5. Did his involvement in Event 201 make him predisposed to worry? Or does it make him an accessory to a crime?

6. We have so many viruses because of climate change - a global hoax? Isn't it more reasonable to conclude we know about more viruses because we're studying them more? And because the technology to sequence them was only recently developed?

7. He claims that by Jan 24 he and others knew the expected virus was here? From what evidence? 0.000003% of China was infected? And 17 people died? Absurd

8. Did it ever occur to him to ask if it's possible for a recombinant type virus to cause a pandemic?

His accomplishments and expectations may have led this man down a path of bias and blunder. But I am hard pressed to accept that. Seems more plausible that this man lied in his speech. I suspect George Gao must be a complex product of education, funding, political pressure, and mythology.

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Stephen's avatar

Kinda gets you thinking that maybe everything we've been told about communist this or that is maybe worth questioning? The Cold War was a bigger psyop than Covid, at least interms of duration.

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Jessica Hockett's avatar

It's all worth questioning - which doesn't mean everything is made up or lies from start to finish

There was no pandemic though!!

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Stephen's avatar

I was putting it softly. We should assume that everything in our heads about Marx, Stalin, Lenin, Mao, communism, the USSR, China, is propaganda until a studied investigation shows otherwise.

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Jessica Hockett's avatar

We should believe evil is evil.

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Pete Ross's avatar

All propaganda to keep the people from running away to live in Russia & China ...

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Stephen's avatar

Or to keep them from just doing what labor use to do - strike, and what consumers use to do, boycott, or ultimately become ungovernable.

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Pete Ross's avatar

Colour Revolution Now!

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Pete Ross's avatar

And North Korea too!

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Turfseer's avatar

Before the social distancing circles were drawn, before the stickers, the dashboards, the mandates, and the masks — there were videos. Collapsing bodies in Wuhan. Sirens. Bolted doors. The whole world watched China’s “lockdowns” unfold like a dystopian stage play.

Jessica Hockett reminds us that this was no organic panic. It was narrative seeding. The psy-op that primed the globe for what came next. A global compliance pageant.

And what better way to honor the utter madness that followed... than with a full-blown satire? Welcome to America’s Got Covid! — where fear is talent, obedience is art, and the science is always right.

https://turfseer.substack.com/p/americas-got-covid

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Elizabeth Hart's avatar

What do you make of this Jessica?

Comes up after typing Covid.gov into a search engine, this White House site: https://www.whitehouse.gov/lab-leak-true-origins-of-covid-19/

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Elizabeth Hart's avatar

Yes, this must be challenged big time.

It must be exposed - what exactly was the evidence used to justify the dystopian ‘Covid’ response? I’m not falling for the ‘lab leak’…

Whoever is ultimately behind all this, the Five Eyes and Bill Gates carried out the plan…and betrayed the world’s people…

https://substack.com/profile/23420438-elizabeth-hart/note/c-110116084?utm_source=notes-share-action&r=dxzbq

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