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Kit Knightly
\n OffGuardian<\/p>\n
Most of the Western world is no longer in lockdown, some vaccine mandates are being loosened, mask wearers are distinctly the minority everywhere you look.
\nFor now at least, and for want of a better phrase, we have largely \u201cgone back to normal\u201d\u2026except, you know, now with a totally broken economy, more centralised financial power, dozens of alarming precedents set up for future deployment and millions upon millions of people injected with poison under false pretences.<\/p>\n
But on the lockdown front at least, we\u2019re normal\u2026mostly.<\/p>\n
Lockdowns are quickly becoming one of those embarrassing things that were only ever supported\u00a0by other people<\/em>, like wearing flares or voting for Thatcher. Politicians are feverishly passing the buck back and forth, claiming to have never wanted lockdowns in the firstplace.<\/p>\n \u2026but not in China.<\/p>\n As the rest of the world \u201clives with Covid\u201d, people in Chinese cities are still subject to dystopian levels of control and surveillance. Up to and including being welded inside their own homes.<\/p>\n Why?<\/p>\n Well, we can certainly rule out a few mainstream \u201cexplanations\u201d:<\/p>\n \u2026so what\u2019s the real explanation?<\/p>\n Well, there are really several answers to that, all of which come back to our old friend the fake binary.<\/p>\n If you accept that the Covid \u201cpandemic\u201d was in fact a global psy-op, carried out by most of the governments of the world working in concert at the behest of supra-national financial, corporate and political interests, then it\u00a0de facto<\/em>\u00a0follows that any apparent differences in approach or attitude between those co-operating governments serve a role in the narrative.<\/p>\n In short, someone has to play \u201cthe bad guy\u201d.<\/p>\n In this case, China\u2019s brutal \u201czero-Covid\u201d approach allows the Western governments to claim the \u201cmoderate\u201d label simply by virtue of not being so cartoonishly \u201cevil\u201d as China.<\/p>\n Of course, this works in both directions.<\/p>\n \u201cThe West\u201d can say to their citizens,\u00a0\u201clook how brutal China\u2019s lockdown was, we would never go that far, because we care about your rights\u201d<\/em>. It is \u2013 and here\u2019s that phrase again \u2013 a fake binary.<\/p>\n Each side serves as the good guy in their own narrative, and the bad guy in the other, and in that fashion they actually support each other whilst corralling each other\u2019s dissidents into a controlled \u201calternative opinion\u201d.<\/p>\n In\u00a0The Guardian<\/em>\u00a0two days ago, the now-ubiquitous Devi Sridhar\u00a0actually defended China\u2019s \u201ctough decisions\u201d<\/a>\u00a0on Zero Covid, coming at it from the angle that China has to be that harsh\u00a0because their vaccines don\u2019t work as well as ours do<\/em>:<\/p>\n China\u2019s population has a lower vaccination rate, with vaccines that appear less effective, than in most other countries. And many people don\u2019t have any immunity gained from a previous infection either. If China gives up on containment and allows a large wave of infections, the country will take a huge loss of life given current vaccination levels<\/p><\/blockquote>\n The entire column is really just a way of shilling\u00a0\u201csafe and effective\u201d<\/em>\u00a0mRNA vaccines (as well as other agenda we\u2019ll deal with below):<\/p>\n Rising concerns about the low effectiveness of the non-mRNA Chinese vaccines were also a concern: studies indicated that protection faded fast and was undetectable after six months [\u2026] China takes, it needs to improve its vaccines. But to do this it will need access to mRNA technology, and this has been stuck at an impasse. Moderna has refused to transfer its technology to Chinese firms for manufacturing, instead eager to sell directly to a large market. China has instead worked to develop a homegrown mRNA vaccine but this has caused delays in rollout [\u2026] China need to get mRNA vaccines to the biggest priority groups quickly<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Again, the twin-sided narrative.<\/p>\n The West says,\u00a0\u201csee, we don\u2019t need these brutal lockdowns, because we\u2019ve got magical vaccines\u201d<\/em>, with the inevitable unspoken corollary of this being\u00a0\u201cwe\u2019ll need to go into lockdowns if you don\u2019t get vaccinated enough\u201d\u00a0<\/em>.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, China gets to lay the blame for their own lockdowns on Western selfishness,\u00a0\u201cthe only reason we have these lockdowns is the mean selfish Western companies won\u2019t share their technology\u201d.<\/em>\u00a0This neatly turns ALL pro-Chinese voices in Western alternate media voices into pro-vaccine voices too.<\/p>\n Lockdowns do not work to halt the spread of diseases and, before 2020, were never suggested or used in that manner.<\/p>\n Then, in the spring of 2020, almost every world government seemingly simultaneously took the unprecedented decision to go into lockdown to fight Covid. To justify this the mainstream narrative was in need of some evidence lockdowns work.<\/p>\n Enter China.<\/p>\n Over and over and over again you will read apparent \u201ccondemnation\u201d of China\u2019s lockdowns alongside the qualification of their supposedly low Covid death numbers.<\/p>\n In mainstream sources, the clear implication is left unspoken, but prominent alternative voices are happy to say it out loud:\u00a0\u201cThese lockdowns may appear unethical, but they saved millions of lives.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n Since ALL Covid \u201ccases\u201d are entirely the product of PCR testing programs, and ALL \u201cCovid deaths\u201d are subject to ludicrously tortured definitions, we can conclude China\u2019s Covid statistics are a contrivance designed to sell the idea that lockdowns actually work.<\/p>\n More than just lockdowns, an undercurrent of the pandemic narrative has been a softening of the public attitude to authoritarian governence in general, usually through compliments to China.<\/p>\n As early as March 2020 we had \u201cexperts\u201d on Channel 4 praising China\u2019s approach, we had Neil Ferguson lamenting the UK government\u00a0didn\u2019t have the power to follow China\u2019s gameplan<\/a>, we had western news outlets claiming China had\u00a0\u201ctriumphed\u201d over Covid<\/a>.<\/p>\n The message was clear, and not at all subtle:\u00a0\u201cMan, obviously having no regard for individual rights is bad, but that approach really does seem to work, doesn\u2019t it? Clearly, we would never do that, but you can\u2019t deny it\u2019s effective, can you?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n That messaging still carries on today, and it has nothing to do with China\u00a0per se<\/em>, and everything to do with the slow-burn legitimisation of tyranny by virtue of the ends justifying the means.<\/p>\n To sum up, China\u2019s \u201czero covid\u201d approach forms a vital piece of the overall pandemic narrative, working in conjunction with Western governments as a deliberately stark contrast:<\/p>\n Perhaps most importantly, the supposed difference works to corral and control public debate.<\/p>\n Traditionally leftwing critics of Western capitalism are forced to defend vaccines and lockdowns by their ideological loyalty to China.<\/p>\n Conversely, right-wingers have China\u2019s \u201csocialist\u201d practices to point their fingers at, whilst praising Western capitalist pharmaceutical innovation for saving us from the need for tighter lockdowns.<\/p>\n Each side is controlled by their ideology, not realising their loyalties are being used to position them inside the permissible spectrum of opinion.<\/p>\n All the while, both sides claim the virus is real and dangerous, both sides use the same PCR tests and both sides shill vaccines made by the same companies. The superficial \u201cdifferences\u201d serve only to sell their many points of agreement.<\/p>\n In other words, the divide over Covid tactics is as real as the fight over Ukraine. It all serves the same purpose, promoting the great reset and the global technocratic government. A system neither communist nor capitalist, but absorbing the worst vices of whilst purging the virtues.<\/p>\n Zero Covid is just China working as the other side of the scissors.<\/p>\n\n
1. HEEL VS FACE<\/h4>\n
\nMeanwhile, China can say\u00a0\u201clook how lax and disorganized the West\u2019s Covid response was, we would never be that careless, because we care about your health\u201d<\/em>.<\/p>\n2. PROMOTING VACCINES<\/h4>\n
3. FEEDS THE LIE THAT \u201cLOCKDOWNS WORK\u201d<\/h4>\n
CONCLUSION<\/h4>\n
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