Public health: It's what Shanghai craves!

Locking up 25 million people is a very healthy and rational thing to do!

A grateful citizen receives badly needed medical assistance

Greetings, internet friends.

Earlier this week, your humble Moscow correspondent asked if we could have a little chit-chat about what was going on in China.

So… what is going on in China? Public health. Lots of impressive public health.

Admittedly, we were a bit skeptical at first. But now we understand that putting 25 million people under house arrest—forcing many Shanghai residents to rely on government handouts in order to feed themselves—is a wise, caring, and very healthy thing to do.

Probably you are thinking: “but I thought lockdowns were depraved and anti-human?” Not when China does it. China is different.

Sanitary & very necessary “quarantine” facilities

First of all, you need to understand that the Chinese government would never treat its people like caged animals unless it had a really, really good reason. It’s now 100% obvious that Shanghai has been attacked with an extremely deadly bioweapon, forcing authorities to take extreme measures to keep everyone safe and healthy.

We know this is true because the makeshift “quarantine” centers in Shanghai are extremely sanitary and have been specially designed to stop the spread of deadly pathogens.

UnHerd recently interviewed a Ukrainian lady who was taken to one of these pristine health facilities (a giant expo center) after she received an “abnormal” COVID test result:

She shares a “stall” with a random stranger. No walls, no door. It’s a giant room with thousands of cots. Don’t worry though, she gets to go outside when it’s Testing Time.

Also: she doesn’t know when she will be allowed to leave.

About as hygienic as a music festival.

There are no showers. This is how the inmates—sorry, “grateful citizens who have been lovingly shielded from the Virus”—clean themselves:

Public health.

More public health. And laundry?

Remember: this is a high-tech and very necessary “quarantine” facility that is keeping people safe and healthy. It would be totally irresponsible to even suggest otherwise.

In fact, quarantined citizens are so grateful for being shielded from the Virus that they have started to hold impromptu parades:

新聞看點 @MuYangLee_XWKD

上海方艙醫院遊行示威

There’s really no reason to complain about being forced to live in an expo center cubicle. You’re safe. You’re healthy. You get to go outside when it’s Testing Time. You receive three free meals a day. You don’t know when you will be allowed to leave, but you don’t need to know. This is true bliss. This is everyone’s wettest dream.

There is plenty of food for everyone!

There are many irresponsible news reports and videos purportedly documenting how Chinese authorities are struggling to provide food to 25 million people who aren’t allowed to go outside.

This is outrageous! There’s plenty of food for everyone:

新聞看點 @MuYangLee_XWKD

上海人的物資都去了哪裡?

方舟子 @fangshimin

上海某小区一栋楼总共发了这点菜，楼长想法给住户平分。

And here are some Chinese people, beaming with thanks and gratitude, as they collect their daily food ration:

新聞看點 @MuYangLee_XWKD

上海浦東航頭鎮發生了騷亂！由於當局不給外地人發放食物、物資，引發外地人集體暴動，開始動手搶奪東西。

Ken Eto @OTR444

Situation in #Shanghai with food shortages apparently has people looting supplies. #covid19

Michael Smith @MikeSmithAFR

The situation in Shanghai is scary. Reports of millions struggling to feed themselves, elderly unable to access medicine, videos of small riots breaking out circulating on social media. Many households relying on inadequate govt food deliveries.

Winston Sterzel @serpentza

The human cost of this awful lockdown is unfathomable, people are being driven to the brink, the mental health cost is immeasurable, this man sums up how many are feeling at the moment

Military deployed for extra health and safety?

The PLA has reportedly arrived in Shanghai to ensure everyone stays extra healthy and extra safe.

Byron Wan @Byron_Wan

🔻 PLA has allegedly moved into Shanghai to help with pandemic control. 1/n

谢万军 2.0 @xie_wanjun

上海街头惊现大批军人。

MORPHEOUS @WilliamsonRonw

CHINA 🇨🇳 PLA at Shanghai Expo centre to manage shanghai quarantine for covid-19 lockdown @narendramodi @PMOIndia

MORPHEOUS @WilliamsonRonw

CHINA 🇨🇳 PLA arrives to help out in Shanghai Covid-19 lockdown… @narendramodi @PMOIndia

With the help of the military, this insidious western bioweapon will finally be defeated.

On Friday, Xi Jinping defended the very healthy measures being taken in Shanghai.

“Against the background of the COVID-19 pandemic that rages across the world, we have put first the health of all participants, adhered to the policy of preventing the coronavirus from re-entering the country to cause a new epidemic, and strictly implemented the prevention and control measures,” the Chinese president said.

What comes next? More testing, of course. And then maybe certain areas of the city will be “managed” differently, depending on determined “risk levels.”

China Daily @ChinaDaily

Shanghai will conduct a new round of citywide #COVID_19 screenings, an official told a press conference on Saturday morning. Based on the test results, the city will manage different areas according to the risk levels.

chinadaily.com.cnShanghai to conduct new round of citywide COVID-19 screeningShanghai will conduct a new round of citywide COVID-19 screenings, an official told a press conference on Saturday morning.

Wonderful healthy health

These are amazing and joyous times, friends. Truly we are blessed to live in an age when our governments spare no expense to keep us all so safe and so healthy.

Jared T Nelson @Jaredtnelson

Day 22 of my Shanghai Covid lockdown As we feared yesterday, we have new restrictions Before we were allowed to leave our building (but not community) to get deliveries - no more; now we are not allowed out of our apartment door

Alice Su @aliceysu

As seen on Weibo: Shanghai residents go to their balconies to sing & protest lack of supplies. A drone appears: “Please comply w covid restrictions. Control your soul’s desire for freedom. Do not open the window or sing.” m.weibo.cn/status/4755028…

Neil Ferguson's Calculator™ @ProfessorFerg10

Boris talking up lockdowns again, Schwab wagging his finger over vaccines, the insane crackdown continues in Shanghai... all for a virus that now has a lower IFR than the flu. No, something really stinks right now. Sinister.

Neil Ferguson's Calculator™ @ProfessorFerg10

In Shanghai right now, people testing + for Covid-19 are transported to camps for an indefinite period of time, with no indication of when they can return. I long for the days when we could look on at such authoritarian madness, confident that nothing like that could happen here.

There are so many haters and doubters who question the benevolence of our omnipotent leaders. What is wrong with these people? Trust the Plan. We are being taken care of.