It’s easy to be duped by the mainstream media’s coverage of China, but it’s important to realize that information originating from the Chinese regime is never intended to inform the public about what’s actually going on. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) promotes disinformation to serve the sole purpose of furthering its own agenda.
In fact, in communications that are only available in Chinese, the CCP openly defines the official Chinese media as government-sponsored information.
The Failure of the CCP’s ‘Zero-COVID’ Policy
While the CCP pretended that its draconian “zero-COVID” policy kept the virus in check and the death rates down, people living inside communist China have told The Epoch Times that this is not the case.We believe that throughout the pandemic, people have been dying in record numbers from untreated viral infections, bad reactions to the vaccines, and the CCP’s anti-human policies that were supposed to contain the virus.
The Chinese Regime’s Pulling Its ‘Official Data’ out of Thin Air
Joe Wang, one of the authors of this article, got his hair cut at a Chinese barbershop in Toronto the other week. The barber has friends and family members who live in China. She talks to them every week or so on the phone. When her friend’s father died, there was a long wait to get the body processed. Her friend resorted to bribing the director of the crematorium with a large sum of money to jump the queue so his father could be properly buried.The director told the bereaved son that he would cremate his father separately, instead of with several other bodies, which is what the crematorium has been forced to do for a long time now because so many people have been dying.
It’s impossible to believe any of the official information coming out of China. Death numbers are far from accurate. In fact, the CCP pulls these numbers out of thin air.
Burned Alive
Two and a half months ago, in late November, the citizens of China and people around the world finally realized that the CCP has been taking things too far.As the blaze continued spreading upward, residents burned alive, their screams audible to people on the floors below them.
These victims of the fire, many of whom were well-to-do, could not leave their building, and no emergency technicians could get to them.
Why? Because the regime had locked them in, and firefighters were not even able to approach the building due to lockdown barricades.
Controlling People by Dehumanizing Them
In the aftermath of the fire, the world rightly saw the totalitarian excess that exemplifies the CCP’s dehumanizing approach to controlling the people of China.Western media has reported that the Chinese people’s protests caused the regime to finally back down on its draconian zero-COVID policy and afford the Chinese people a reprieve from lockdowns.
But we believe that the CCP’s decision to reverse course did not have much to do with the protesters. Rather, the protests gave officials an excuse to stop a failing policy. And if there is, indeed, a surge in COVID-19 cases and deaths, that will allow the CCP to blame the protesters: “See? You wanted us to open up. We did. Now look what happened!” It will also give the regime a way to continue to hide the real data—that hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of innocent Chinese people have died under “zero-COVID”—and have a justification for the lower census numbers that are sure to be recorded this year.
You Can’t Lock Out a Virus
People in the West passed through lockdowns much more comfortably than the Chinese people. In most countries, people were able to go to the grocery store and shop online, and many managed to continue working, from home.In comparison, the large-scale imprisonment of the entire Chinese population, which started before the Western countries’ policies and has continued long after, has been utterly brutal.
SARS-CoV-2 is an endemic coronavirus that could no more be contained or eliminated than the common cold.
Chinese People Deserve Freedom
Simmering anger at the CCP is widespread inside China, and the people have also spent decades trying to protest the Party’s unreasonable, inhumane, and intolerable edicts, often with less successful results.The fight for access to accurate information and ways to express themselves without censorship is daily and ongoing in China.
The Omicron variants are spreading in China now. These variants are more contagious and less lethal, centering their activity in the nasal area rather than the lungs.
We aren’t in the same situation as we were in January 2020. Many have been exposed. We have effective treatments. The variants are less virulent. And we understand much more about the virus than we did three years ago.
The Chinese people have suffered for far too long. They deserve accurate, science-forward information about COVID-19, and they deserve freedom from the tyranny of the CCP.