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When you sheeple refuse to fight off the early formation of it,
even scattering like roaches won't save you from the
overgrown Tyranny you allowed, called and apologized for...


Shoppers At Shanghai Ikea Flee Sudden COVID Lockdown

https://twitter.com/DonnaWongHK/status/1558906540458795008
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-08-15/panic-in-ikea-as-shanghai-locks-down-store-on-remote-covid-risk
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-62547503
https://twitter.com/TheInsiderPaper/status/1559234716322222083
https://news.yahoo.com/shanghai-covid-ikea-shoppers-flee-093539954.html
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2022-08-02/china-s-covid-zero-strategy-could-last-years-under-xi

Though America's Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) took
a turn toward Covid rationality last week, "Zero-Covid" madness is
still raging in China.

Just ask the poor people who were at a Shanghai Ikea on Saturday
evening. One minute they're innocently eyeing furniture and
appliances, the next they're being told they can't leave the store or
go home.

An announcement was made over the store's public address system,
notifying shoppers the store had been ordered to close and to prevent
anyone from leaving, due to contact tracing. Shocked by suddenly being
condemned to quarantine, many opted to make a run for it.

Video captured a dystopian scene in which guards attempt to close
doors on the escapees, some of whom are screaming in their panic. The
guards were overpowered, but it's not clear what happened to the
fleeing shoppers next.

    Yesterday, an abnormal health code case was presented at an IKEA
in Shanghai, & the entire mall was suddenly blocked🥶

    Some ppl forced their way out for fear of being sent to
concentration camps, but there is actually nowhere to escape under
#AmazingChina’s digital surveillance pic.twitter.com/MWpbTOJ3kz
    — Donna Wong💛🖤 (@DonnaWongHK) August 14, 2022

Those who were trapped in the store had to first linger there for four
hours -- from 8pm til midnight -- before being transported to
quarantine hotels, reports Bloomberg. Then they faced quarantine for
two days followed by five days of monitoring.

The mass-detention was triggered merely because a close contact of a
six-year-old boy who tested positive had visited the store. It's not
clear if that individual was in the store at the time. What's more,
the 6-year old wasn't even symptomatic.

    VIDEO: Chaotic scenes at Ikea store in Shanghai with shoppers
trying to escape as authorities tried to quarantine them
https://t.co/sErdkVTxHs pic.twitter.com/jmKWFrUXEu
    — Insider Paper (@TheInsiderPaper) August 15, 2022

While the video of the incident is dramatic, it's hardly the first
such episode, as Chinese citizens continue to live in a dark game of
contact-tracing roulette. Others have been suddenly detained while
working in offices, exercising at gyms or dining in restaurants.

Of China's major cities, Shanghai has been hit hardest. Between March
10 and July 31 of this year alone, the city endured 92 days of full or
partial lockdown. This spring, it got to the point where
apartment-dwellers were screaming in unison from their balconies:

Last week, the CDC updated its guidelines, with one of the
bureaucracy's epidemiologists saying "we know that Covid-19 is here to
stay." Two proclamations were particularly welcome, even if they were
terribly overdue:

    "It's no longer recommended to screen those without symptoms."
    "Unvaccinated people now have the same guidance as vaccinated people."

In China, however, there's no sign that the Zero-Covid regime will be
relaxed anytime soon, despite mounting damage to China's economy, and
despite growing Chinese discontent.
Workers carry food to Shanghai residents confined to their homes in
March (Wang Yanting/Xinhua via AP)