{"id":1195354,"date":"2022-01-06T21:35:07","date_gmt":"2022-01-07T02:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1195354"},"modified":"2022-01-06T21:35:20","modified_gmt":"2022-01-07T02:35:20","slug":"chinese-city-bans-negative-posts-about-brutal-coronavirus-lockdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/chinese-city-bans-negative-posts-about-brutal-coronavirus-lockdown\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese City Bans \u2018Negative\u2019 Posts About Brutal Coronavirus Lockdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fchinese-city-bans-negative-posts-about-brutal-coronavirus-lockdown%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1195354&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/virus-outbreak-china-photo-released-by-china-xinhua-news-agency-volunteers-wearing-protective-1-640x335-1.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\"><span>Officials in the northern Chinese city of Xi\u2019an on Tuesday banned \u201cnegative news\u201d on social media about the city\u2019s strict coronavirus lockdown, which has millions of residents on the verge of starvation and has killed at least two people. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The municipal government menacingly reminded its desperate citizens they are under constant electronic surveillance.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p><span>Xi\u2019an\u2019s population of about 13 million has been under <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2021\/12\/30\/china-starving-out-13-million-trapped-epicenter-coronavirus-outbreak\/\"><span>strict lockdown<\/span><\/a><span> since a cluster of coronavirus cases was detected two weeks ago.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>As always, Chinese Communist claims of coronavirus case numbers and fatalities should never be taken at face value, but local officials say this horrific lockdown \u2013 complete with a bizarre theatrical chemical disinfection of the entire city \u2013 was imposed because of 143 infections. The most recent update counted 1,600 cases in the city, but insisted there have been no fatalities.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>City residents reported severe shortages of food and supplies as the lockdown wore on, posting on social media that they were forbidden to leave their homes even for groceries. Complaints turned to pleas for help \u2013 and then accusations that city officials did not make adequate preparations for the lockdown, more manpower was devoted to policing the population than feeding them, and Communist Party officials appeared to be enjoying shipments of food while the public was left to starve.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p><span>This growing unrest exploded into outrage, both in Xi\u2019an and across China, when two deaths were reported on social media: a baby who <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2022\/01\/05\/xi-jinping-tours-genocide-olympics-venues-ignoring-massive-coronavirus-outbreak\/\"><span>died<\/span><\/a><span> in a miscarriage after the mother was denied hospital care pending the results of a coronavirus test, and an older man who <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/article\/3162371\/covid-19-china-woman-says-father-died-heart-attack-after-being-denied\"><span>died<\/span><\/a><span> of a heart attack while his frantic daughter raced from one medical facility to the next, pleading with doctors to save him.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cI kept thinking, if I had been more uncooperative, screaming and crying to make a scene, would the hospital have admitted my father? But there\u2019s no \u2018if\u2019. One month after my father turned 61, I lost him forever,\u201d the grieving daughter wrote in a Wednesday post on Weibo, China\u2019s version of banned Twitter.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>After these outrageous stories went viral, Xi\u2019an officials leaped into action \u2013 by silencing their captive citizens and threatening punishment if any more \u201cnegative\u201d stories escape into social media.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cFrom Jan. 4, people are banned from posting details of the pandemic restrictions or information about the road situation, videos, links, mini-apps or photos of the situation, particularly negative news,\u201d the municipal government said in a text message to all 13 million inhabitants.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cThere is background surveillance operating on all WeChat groups, and any negative news will be deleted as soon as it is sent. Please bear this in mind and pass the message on,\u201d the message added ominously.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Xi\u2019an residents told <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rfa.org\/english\/news\/china\/ban-01052022102234.html\"><span>Radio Free Asia<\/span><\/a><span> (RFA) on Wednesday the incident with the man dying of a heart attack rattled the local government badly enough to bring down the iron curtain. Officials were already nervous about growing unrest over food shortages and public backlash against some ham-fisted efforts to stage Communist Party photo ops, such as a goon squad handing out tiny handfuls of food to residents while instructing them to look into the cameras with big smiles and thank the benevolent government for feeding them.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cIt\u2019s pretty clear now what the government is doing. Now, if people are hungry, they\u2019re not allowed to say so,\u201d said one disgusted woman. \u201cThis isn\u2019t a place fit for humans to live, where they won\u2019t even let sick people seek medical treatment, or give birth \u2014 that\u2019s how they treat people in a pandemic.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Officials in the northern Chinese city of Xi\u2019an on Tuesday banned \u201cnegative news\u201d on social media about the city\u2019s strict coronavirus lockdown, which has millions of residents on the verge &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1195354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1195354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1195354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1195354\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1195354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1195354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1195354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}