Word that Covid is actually not worth panicking over took 2 years to reach Bill Gates; it still hasn’t reached China’s communist rulers:

Shanghai authorities were tightening the city-wide COVID lockdown they imposed more than a month ago, prolonging into late May an ordeal that China’s capital Beijing was desperate to avoid by turning mass testing into an almost daily routine. …

In a video shared widely on Chinese social media, police in hazmat suits argue with residents who were told they needed to be quarantined after a neighbour tested positive.

“This is so that we can thoroughly remove any positive cases,” one of the officers is heard saying. “Stop asking me why, there is no why. We have to adhere to national guidelines.”

There is no why. If only the Democrats had someone who could explain Covid policies so succinctly.

The prolonged isolation and fear of being sent to quarantine centres, which sometimes lack showers and other basic conditions, have caused widespread frustration, even altercations. …

Businesses that remained open were not seeing many clients as people did not want to do anything that might bring them near infected people and force them into quarantine.

Note that it isn’t Covid they fear; it is their government’s authoritarian overreaction to Covid.

“North of us are malls and offices that have been sealed, and their apps might mark them as close contacts if they came,” said a barber surnamed Song, referring to the mobile monitoring software all residents must use.

Think how safe we will be when the Department of Homeland Security applies similar technology to keep tabs on us — assuming the shaved gerbil in charge at DHS isn’t doing it already.

Last week the authorities threatened action against critics of the zero-COVID policy.

Misinformation about the wisdom of government Covid policies must be suppressed for the sake of public health. That’s what we have Nina Jankowicz for.

On a tip from Anonymous.

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