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It's very important to examine China's role in the global lockdown debate. This article is well sourced, verified, and concise. I encourage you to share it an
by just-juan-post 6y ago
It's very important to examine China's role in the global lockdown debate.
This article is well sourced, verified, and concise. I encourage you to share it and discuss it.
China’s Global Lockdown Propaganda Campaign
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/china-covid-lockdown-propaganda https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/china-covid...
Something from the middle of the article to get your attention:
> In March, Chinese state media began describing the strategy of “herd immunity”—allowing the coronavirus to spread among the young and healthy—as a violation of “human rights,” an Orwellian formulation given that lockdowns are essentially a blanket suspension of rights.
> Initially, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson also opted for herd immunity. But on March 13, suspicious accounts began storming his Twitter feed and likening his plan to genocide. This language almost never appears in Johnson’s feed before March 12, and several of the accounts were hardly active before then. Britain locked down on March 23.