The Cries of Hell from Shanghai

In Holy Week 2022, we hear and see hell...

I wish I had never heard or seen this footage.

Shanghai is in total lockdown, a city of 30 million.

Shanghai is experiencing lockdowns in their full ambition, enforced by raw totalitarian power. Such a public health intervention was unknown in human history prior to 2020.

Unknown because in the face of a respiratory virus, it used to be utterly obvious that brute actions such as lockdowns and mass masking DO NOT WORK, because they cannot work.

Such measures were unknown, certainly in the west, also because such measures have always been unbecoming of civilized peoples. No mediaeval king would have dared even try lock up his people for their health, or covered their children's faces for years.

Listen to the screams of the people imprisoned in their high-rise prison cells.

Word out of the city is that you cannot leave your apartment at all, except for covid testing. Buildings have two people designated to fetch food for the rest of the occupants, and that in full hazmat-style suits.

If you test positive, you are removed from your residence, separated from family, and placed in a quarantine centre. It has also been reported that dogs and cats are being killed by health workers as possible vectors of covid.

This is what these quarantine centres look like, as mothers and children scream to be reunited.

You will not be surprised at all to note that the covid cases numbers in Shanghai keep rising. How sadly and cruelly ironic.

I often wondered whether the Wuhan lockdown was a kind of theatre. I still wonder. But it seems now the Chinese really do believe in zero covid, and really did believe they had previously achieved this mythical state.

What gives? Is it some kind of intense East Asian germophobia feeding this madness? Or are the Communist leaders worried about a pestilence threatening their ancient 'mandate of heaven'?

Let us not be smug in our own countries, somehow believing that China occupies a different world, that this could never happen to us.

This practically did happen to us. The Chinese are just efficient enough to enforce these measures to their logical conclusion.

This is the kind of lockdown our leaders wanted.

A Chinese lockdown is what the WHO advised all nations to emulate. They had achieved zero covid apparently!

Even now, it is not difficult to find in the west apologists for this Shanghai horror.

When clever liberal types bemoan Trump's actions during covid, this is what they believe he should have done.

In the west, Australia came close to this stringency, arresting pregnant women in their homes for disagreeing online with the new regime, and sending troops in to quell protest gatherings.

In South Africa, hundreds of thousands were arrested for simply living their lives, for trying to get by whilst the new normal of majority unemployment rates were created.

And let us not be smug either about our apparent innocence in all of this.

When you wear a mask, when your child wears a mask, when you, God forbid, tell a child or adult to put on a mask, you are complicit in the same lies which led to this Shanghai hell-scape, this same notion that communist style tactics can perform medical miracles.

I have written this over and over again: to believe masks do anything to stop a virus, you have to disbelieve the entire evidence-based tradition of science, because there is zero credible evidence that a piece of material over your face benefits your health.

There is a reason only insane hypochondriacs wore them before 2020. Pieces of cloth do not and cannot stop you from catching a cold or flu. Snap out of it!

(Not that you should need further proof that pieces of plastic or cloth cannot stop a miniscule, aerosol virus, but here is yet more evidence they did no more to stop waves of viral spread than dancing on the beach stops the coming of high tide.)

This same willful ignorance of obvious reality is being seen in the vaccine madness. We absolutely know now that the vaccines do not stop the spread of covid. We know that they make the spread of covid WORSE. We know their efficacy wanes in mere weeks. And this brief efficacy, if it exists at all, likely comes with real long-term risk. (Nobody yet is able to explain why the miracle vaccine does not lower overall mortality rates, either in trials or in general populations.)

To support vaccine mandates is of a piece with supporting mass masking, and dare I say it, of a piece with supporting Shanghai prison-state style health interventions.

Yes, there is a thread of complicity that runs all the way from Shanghai right to ourselves. When we participate in lies, casually and willfully, we unlock evil. This is a universal law. Dabble with untruth at your own peril.

We have tolerated this, and now our children will be next.

Now that we have established this permanent emergency precedent for a virus with a mortality rate now lower than the flu, we are sure to have further emergencies, for ‘carbon neutrality', and for further pandemic scares.

I have already reported how the proposed legislation in South Africa to deal with covid on an ongoing basis allows for ongoing draconian government action targeted at ANY disease.

Wait for carbon and meat rationing. It is coming.

But it is Holy Week now.

On Sunday, we remembered the short-lived triumph of Christ’s entry to Jerusalem. Later this week we will recount his Last Supper, his Betrayal, and Passion.

We do this because we believe His suffering opened up for us an eternal fountain of forgiveness, and that his Resurrection on Easter Sunday is the power which will one day fix everything.

But just as we face the Cross again, so should we not look away from the likes of Shanghai.

Jesus himself said as he was led to his death, ‘Daughters of Jerusalem, do not weep for me; weep for yourselves and for your children.’ He knew how bad things could get in this vale of tears.

We are told that in the three days of his death, he harrowed hell and rescued there all those imprisoned but waiting for the Liberator.

It is for freedom, Christ set us free, asserted the Apostle Paul.

We pray and hope once again for this forgiveness, this harrowing of hell, this freedom, to be with us now.