Why Did US Intellectuals and Officials Celebrate and Copy China's Lockdown Model?

As a reminder, this is the narrative on which officials like these have been basing their guidance: A supervirus emerged that was so deadly only Chinese totalitarianism could stop it; it caused mass death in Wuhan until Xi's two-month lockdown of Wuhan eliminated it from all of China, where a steady stream of "Variants" now demand indefinite restrictions.

Here's former CDC Director Tom Frieden toeing the Party line.

Here's SAGE advisor Susan Michie toeing the Party line-as one might expect, given she has been a member of the British Communist Party for decades.

Here's former Health Minister Patty Hajdu toeing the Party line.

Here's Italian Health Minister Roberto Speranza-the man who signed both the first lockdown order in the modern western world and the first lockdown of an entire country in the western world-on his plans to reshape the world.

On the advice of officials like these, western nations imported the concept of "Lockdown"-one of the most hideously totalitarian policies ever conceived-which had been pioneered by the dictator of China just two months prior.

He has been researching the influence of the Chinese Communist Party on the world's response to COVID-19 since March 2020, and previously authored China's Global Lockdown Propaganda Campaign and The Masked Ball of Cowardice in Tablet Magazine.

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