Your Papers Please: The Enslavement of the Free World
The West, once defined as “The Free World,” has been locked down and liberty destroyed in the name of fighting the current pestilence.
“At 2AM on January 23, authorities in Wuhan suddenly issued the order to close off the city.” Chinese journalist Da Shji lives in Wuhan and documented the abrupt lockdown of the city, and shortly after that many more Chinese cities, in a report he filed with the China Media Project, an independent program operated in partnership with the Journalism & Media Studies Centre at the University of Hong Kong.
“All public buses, subways, ferries, long-distance buses and other transport services would be suspended; the airport and train stations would be shuttered,” he wrote of the then-shocking development. Soon the lockdown would extend beyond Wuhan. “In less than two days, up to noon on January 24, a total of 14 cities in Hubei province would be brought into the quarantine zone.” He concluded, “This was no longer a city under lockdown, but effectively an entire province under quarantine.”
The results were predictable. Those who could, having heard of the coming lockdown, fled the city, with up to an estimated million Wuhan residents leaving in the hours before the lockdown. Many carried the virus to their destinations, exacerbating the epidemic. In Wuhan and other locked-down areas, the captive population was left with an uncertain future, at best.
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