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Dear Peter, thank you for your thorough documentation on China's zero Covid Policy. As you know, China has a very long history, dating back to the 21st C, BCE. They also have developed an amazing TCM (Traditional Chinese Medicine) practice that is over 5,000 years old). I myself have benefited from their acupuncture, cupping, Moxibustion, herbs etc. for over 30 years. TCM is widely practiced alongside Western Medicine.throughout the country. The Chinese are not crazy. Perhaps they know something about Covid that they have not revealed and this is why they are willing to take such draconian measures, even putting their economy in jeopardy to stop its spread. Possibly there are reasons not being revealed. TCM charts of the body have organs and points not recognized (or discovered in Western medicine). Again, perhaps there is a reason, as of yet unrevealed. Just a thought.

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TCM is frequently a valid approach to the healing arts, particularly in the realm of herbal treatments and similar naturopathic approaches. (Side note: a good chunk of the pharmaceuticals used in western allopathy are not nearly as safe or as effective as advertised--on average at least two drugs that receive full FDA approval are withdrawn EVERY YEAR because of safety issues and toxic side effects).

However, the draconian mass quarantines and lockdowns imposed in Wuhan, Shanghai, Shenzhen, and elsewhere in China are not an application of TCM--at least, not as I apprehend TCM generally. Moreover, whether conceptually grounded in TCM or western allopathy, the data on the lockdowns is unequivocal on this one salient point: they do NOT stop the spread of COVID. TCM does not recommend perpetuating an healthcare practice that is shown to be ineffective.

Finally, as the videos from Shanghai and elsewhere have shown, the Chinese people themselves are not choosing lockdown of themselves--it's being imposed on them by a totalitarian CCP that has of late been resurrecting the Maoist assaults on Chinese traditions by vilifying the "Four Olds" (old ideas, old customs, old culture, old habits).

If anything, the lockdowns are as much a repudiation of TCM as they are a repudiation of sanity.

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"I am doing this for your own good." whack whack.

"This hurts me more than it hurts you." whack whack.

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I wonder if they shut down the lab as well.

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Labs.

At this time, that is unlikely. The Wuhan Institute of Virology is in the Wuchang District to the north of Jiangxia, and the Wuhan Institute of Infectious Diseases (the biolab closer in proximity to the "wet" animal market postulated as the epicenter of the original outbreak) is in the Jianghan District not only north of Jiangxia but on the other side of the Yangtze River.

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Didn’t Australia also have severe lockdowns and travel restrictions in pursuit of “zero covid?” And once they opened up, the virus is raging.

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Australia has gone through several cycles of "zero covid" lockdowns.

Prior to the Delta/Omicron waves of late 2021, Australia's biggest wave of infection was from around June 10, 2020, to September 30, 2020.

https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/coronavirus-data-explorer?zoomToSelection=true&time=2020-06-01..2020-10-31&facet=none&pickerSort=desc&pickerMetric=new_cases_per_million&Metric=Confirmed+cases&Interval=7-day+rolling+average&Relative+to+Population=true&Color+by+test+positivity=false&country=~AUS

However, if you look at the chronology of their lockdown protocols during that time period, Australia instituted lockdown beginning on July 1, 2020, and maintained the rigorous lockdown protocol until October 28, 2020.

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/stay-at-home-covid?time=2020-10-27

The peak of that COVID wave in Australia was on August 4, 2020, more than a month AFTER the lockdown began.

Which is merely another point establishing the inefficacy of lockdowns as a public health strategy. Draconian lockdown in Australia completely failed to prevent disease spread. The virus actually "raged" in Australia, during the lockdown, not after.

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fentanyl addicts around the world must be freaking out https://www.city-journal.org/wuhan-fuels-americas-fentanyl-epidemic

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They're the only major nation STILL doing lockdowns.

For a time Australia and New Zealand were every bit as fascistic in their approach, and Canada still seeks to discriminate against non-inoculated individuals.

https://newsletter.allfactsmatter.us/p/canada-continues-to-discriminate

Why does Xi Jinping cling to a failed strategy? Damn good question.

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China is a model.

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