COVID-1984

Epidemic-prevention workers in protective suits stand outside a residential compound that is under lockdown in Beijing on Nov. 28, 2022. Thomas Peter/Reuters

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In the Xi Jinping empire, the Wuhan virus (COVID-19) has undergone a three-year mutation. Instead of the Omicron with which all mankind is to coexist, it is COVID-1984—a kind of high-tech dictatorship never seen before, the monstrous spawn of the virus and internet technologies.

The Xi empire has finally achieved a “communist health code system” within the Great Red Firewall—a system of universal surveillance formed ostensibly for epidemic control. If you reject it, you cannot survive in China. 

History will remember:

• Jan. 23, 2020: Wuhan lockdown.
• Nov. 24, 2022: Xinjiang fire.
• Nov. 26, 2022: Shanghai protest.

Jan. 23, 2020: Wuhan Lockdown

On that day, all local bus, train, plane, subway, and boat transportation services stopped operating. Nearly 10 million residents were repeatedly ordered not to leave. Nonetheless, all international customs services and flights abroad stayed open as usual for several weeks. Thus, hundreds of thousands of passengers from the infected areas were able to fly all over the world.

Passengers wearing protective masks sit as they wait for their flights at Tianhe Airport in Wuhan, in China's central Hubei Province, on May 29, 2020. Hector Retamal/AFP via Getty Images

Nearly everyone forgot that simple fact. No Western leader ever mentioned it to the Virus Emperor Xi, nor did the former German chancellor who, not long ago, just couldn’t wait to get into the vaccine business in China. Why did the Chinese regime keep all customs and foreign flights open on Jan. 23 even as hundreds of thousands of People’s Liberation Army (PLA) troops were deployed to seal off Wuhan and Hubei Province?

According to the World Health Organization, the number of deaths caused by COVID-19 between 2020 and 2021 was about 14.9 million worldwide. The United States is at the top of the list. Unfortunately, I did not find the death toll in China in this “expert report” published in multiple languages and widely quoted in the media.

Nor did I find the cause of all these deaths; for example, where did the virus come from? Why did the bat coronavirus, which has survived in nature for over 50 million years, choose this moment to reach the human body? And why did they choose human bodies in Wuhan?

However, the national policy of epidemic prevention, nucleic acid testing, and dynamic clean-up at any cost began at that moment. This is the great battle that Chinese Communist Party (CCP) General Secretary Xi Jinping personally ordered and commanded. Xi ordered that the Wuhan closure model must be implemented in every detail.

For nearly three years, tens of thousands of Chinese cities and towns, both large and small, have been sealed off. As a result, many people went hungry or were even starving. But His Majesty Xi, who had lived through the famine of 1959-1962 when 40 million people were starved to death, did not care. Xi knew that even in those days, the CCP remained firmly in control, and Mao Zedong remained the great leader.

Nov. 24, 2022: Xinjiang Fire

On that day, a fire broke out in a high-rise building in the Jixiangyuan neighborhood of downtown Urumqi, the capital of Xinjiang. The city had already been closed for over 100 days to prevent the spread of COVID. Sealing off residential buildings left no way for the people inside to escape. The door of their housing units had been locked from the outside. Outside the building was an epidemic control fence and a metal retaining wall. The firefighters and their trucks were unable to break through the barrier. According to the Chinese official announcement, 10 people were burned alive, and nine others were seriously injured. However, some survivors confirmed that at least 40 died in the fire.

News of the tragedy spread throughout China on social media, sparking widespread outrage. By this time, almost three years after the closure of Wuhan, hundreds of millions of Chinese had their own experiences of being “Wuhanites.” For hundreds of millions of Chinese, words like dynamic zero, mask, nucleic acid, detection, isolation, health code, pop-up, report, surveillance, warning, deletion, control, detention, disappearance, starvation, and beating became household words. That list of words goes on and on.

But human beings are human beings, not domesticated animals to be slaughtered by their masters. As news of the Xinjiang fire spread, Patrick Henry’s cry, “Give me liberty, or give me death,” resounded in over 50 major cities across China that had repeatedly been closed for epidemic control.

A young woman stood quietly in the center of a university campus while everyone held sheets of white paper. Everyone has had similar experiences of “not being allowed to speak” or “being deleted, warned, blocked, and canceled.” Everyone asked themselves: “What have I done to be treated like this?”

Nearly three years ago, hundreds of millions of people mourned Dr. Li Wenliang, the whistleblower physician whom the authorities called a rumor monger. Today, countless cities and university campuses mourn the victims of the Xinjiang fires. These same people mourn for themselves and their futures in the depths of their alienation and despair.

Chinese students and their supporters hold a memorial for Dr. Li Wenliang, who was the whistleblower of the CCP virus that originated in Wuhan, China, and caused the doctor’s death in that city, outside the UCLA campus in Westwood, Calif., on Feb. 15, 2020. Mark Ralston/AFP via Getty Images

They ask themselves: “If one day my building catches fire, will I end up the same way? Oh, Communist Party, oh, Xi Jinping, are we not submissive enough as a people? You are so domineering that you seal off the cities and buildings as long as you like. Yet we endured it. We endure. We obediently allowed ourselves to be taken from our homes and dormitories and centrally locked down in improvised quarantine facilities. We had no money, we were going crazy, we were starving, and we were dying of disease. Yet we endured it. We endure. We even endured it when your isolation transfer bus crashed on a dangerous stretch of highway, killing 27 of our compatriots. But why are we being treated so badly?”

Nov. 26, 2022: Shanghai Protest

On that day, the people of Shanghai, holding sheets of white paper, broke through police barricades set up on all sides to assemble at Urumqi Middle Road to commemorate our compatriots who died in the fire.

Police officers confront a man as they block Wulumuqi street in Shanghai on Nov. 27, 2022. Hector Retamal/AFP via Getty Images

“Down with  Xi Jinping!”

Prior to that shocking roar that history will surely remember, a Chinese citizen posted this message under the sign on Urumqi Middle Road:

Friends of Urumqi I love you all I love you all as much as I love this place Like loving my family Shanghai, November 26, 2022

The police came in wave after wave. Many people were crying, not because they were afraid nor because they were about to be arrested and beaten. It was because they had seen that message.

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