From Jeff Childers

Back in 2017, Xi Jinping said Marxism would be the foundation for a healthy China, since “medicine has a great deal to learn from Marx”.
But Karl Marx was a moron; his “groundbreaking” book ‘Das Capital’ is indecipherable gobbledegook. For years the fact that nobody could understand him was taken to be evidence of Marx’s genius, until everybody admitted his book just doesn’t make any sense.

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Here is Jeff’s take on the present China Syndrome

China currently seems to be going through a massive covid wave. I say “seems” because U.S. corporate media and the federal government widely and publicly disbelieve the official Chinese government-reported statistics, which only reflect a modest wave.

All of a sudden, you can’t trust anything China says.

Yesterday, the UK Telegraph posted an article titled, “China’s Covid Nightmare Is the Final Proof: Lockdowns Were a Total Failure.” It begins by noting that “We will never know how many people are dying of Covid in China.” Allegedly, government-regulated mortuaries require relatives to sign a standarized form to release the corpse, a form which pledges “I guarantee that the deceased __________ did not die of Covid, and I will be fully responsible for any false claim.”

The games the Chinese are playing with their covid numbers has infuriated Team Lockdown. How dare they cook the numbers like that! It’s all wrong, they should be INFLATING the covid deaths, like the CDC does! Stupid Chinese.
As bad as Marx was at economics, he had NO reason to be gassing on about public health. The Chinese experience seems to be proving that. Still, if Karl Marx were alive, they’d probably have him running the NIH.

As the Telegraph article describes in great detail, China’s covid story is more about the pigheaded stupidity of Marxian, centrally-planned lockdowns, which were already known to be a bad idea BEFORE the recent government-produced pandemic. China’s over-the-top draconian lockdowns, literally welding people into their apartments, probably cost millions of lives and incalculable losses of economic productivity.

Even worse, locking their country down so tightly only delayed reckoning day. Instead of flattening the curve, it wound the curve up like a tightly-coiled spring, and now that the lockdowns have ended, the spring has sprung, the curve has exploded, and millions more may die from covid absent effective early treatment, which appears just as unavailable to the Chinese as it was to everyone else.

? The Hill ran a story this morning headlined, “Nearly Half of Passengers From China to Milan Have COVID: Italian Officials.” Italy, which promptly began requiring tests from Chinese travelers, announced that 38% of passengers on one flight into Milan’s Malpensa Airport tested positive for covid, and 52% of those on a second flight were positive.

It’s framed as a scare story: fully vaccinated Italians are supposed to be terrified of all these covid-infected Chinese visiting their country. But WHY is it so scary? What about all their jabbedy-jabbed “protection?” Why not just grab another booster, and go about your business?

Reviewing the various headlines this morning about the Chinese outbreak, one senses corporate media doesn’t quite know what to do with the story yet. Personally, I am waiting for this headline, which feels like it must be coming soon: “It’s Time to Face Facts: The Vaccines Failed.”

? Meanwhile, Joe Biden, who called President Trump’s China travel ban racist and “xenophobic,” is on the job. The Hill ran a story yesterday headlined, “US To Impose New Restrictions on Travelers From China Amid COVID Outbreaks.” The U.S. already requires foreign travelers to have at least two doses of the safe and effective vaccines, but is now adding a testing requirement, since the safe and effective vaccines are so very very effective.

You can’t make this stuff up. Remember when they said you would need the vaccines to travel internationally? Haha, suckers. We’re back to tests.

Anyway, the situation is apparently so urgent that, unlike the Italians who already started testing, the U.S.’s Chinese travel testing requirement doesn’t start for a week, by which time any new covid variant circulating in China will be fully delivered to spike-tolerant Americans and, like everything else the Biden Administration does, the testing requirement will just be performance theater.

One bright spot: the new testing requirement can be waived with proof of recovery from a prior covid infection more than ten days before travel. NOW natural immunity is better than a test. So the Chinese credit for natural immunity, unlike Americans, who never did. But hey, I guess it’s progress.

The real story, which the Hill completely missed, is how fully and finally the vaccines have failed. What was the point of the jabs if you can’t travel internationally with them? How is China’s covid surge any different from any other country having a new covid wave, like fully-vaccinated Japan, which is facing its second-highest covid wave and highest covid death numbers?

At least Japan had the vaccines. It would have been so much worse.

Finally, and most importantly, why should Americans be fearful, when jabs are available at every pharmacy and major grocery chain in the country? Not to mention the new and improved bivalent booster shot, Paxlovid, and Molnupiravir, which are all freely available, having been prepaid by taxpayers. Aren’t we “protected” yet?

Ironically, while China’s Marxist government just stopped requiring its citizens to show proof of a negative test to move around inside that country, now all the western countries are imposing tests on those same citizens to travel OUTSIDE the country. It’s a de facto lockdown. We’re locking the Chinese back down.