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China-Japan-Koreas
Chinese city of 13 MILLION people is shut down for a week to avoid Covid 'explosion' after just 18 cases are recorded
2022-07-06
The gift that keeps on giving.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • Businesses, schools and restaurants in Xi'an to close for one week

  • New lockdown imposed after just 18 cases were found since Saturday

  • China again tries to impose a zero-Covid policy on it's 1.4 billion citizens

  • New lockdown thought to be driven by the fast-spreading Omicron variant

  • Xi'an is a historic city of 13 million and home to the famous Terra Cotta Army
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Posted by:Skidmark

#3  my theory for why CCP is over reacting is that Xi Jinping is 69, has some immunity compromising issues and is scared
Posted by: Lord Garth   2022-07-06 10:30  

#2  Cats, dogs, ferrets, fruit bats, gorillas, pangolins, hamsters, mink, sea otters, pumas, snow leopards, tigers, lions, hyenas, hippos, giraffes, tree shrews and whitetail deer can be infected with and have tested positive at least once for the virus.

Omicron is suspected to have jumped from man to mouse, evolved and then jumped back from mouse to man.

This lock down makes as much sense as melting down tools in backyard furnaces to increase the production of worthless metal slag.

"Zero Covid" looks like one of the bouts of self-destructive fanatical madness that are typical for Chinese Communism.
Posted by: Elmerert Hupens2660   2022-07-06 10:05  

#1  Shanghai, Beijing order new round of mass COVID-19 testing
Posted by: Skidmark   2022-07-06 09:11  

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