{"id":1418240,"date":"2022-04-04T14:14:58","date_gmt":"2022-04-04T18:14:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1418240"},"modified":"2022-04-04T14:15:02","modified_gmt":"2022-04-04T18:15:02","slug":"china-once-praised-by-media-for-covid-response-tears-sick-children-from-parents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/china-once-praised-by-media-for-covid-response-tears-sick-children-from-parents\/","title":{"rendered":"China, Once Praised by Media for COVID Response, Tears Sick Children From Parents"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/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%2Fchina-once-praised-by-media-for-covid-response-tears-sick-children-from-parents%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=1418240&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><\/div>\n<p>Health officials in Shanghai are separating COVID-positive babies and young children from their families as part of the Chinese government&#8217;s brutal zero-COVID policy, the <i>Daily Mail<\/i> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-10683705\/Shanghai-separates-Covid-infected-children-parents-brutal-zero-Covid-measures.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a> Monday.<\/p>\n<p>More than two years since the end of the pandemic&#8217;s first wave, China is still going to extreme lengths to achieve zero COVID-19 cases. Under Chinese policy, &#8220;anyone found positive\u2014even if they are asymptomatic or have a mild infection\u2014must be isolated from non-infected people,&#8221; the <em>Daily<\/em>\u00a0<i>Mail<\/i> wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Multiple public health experts and left-leaning media sources have praised China&#8217;s zero-COVID policy since the beginning of the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;How uncomfortable is it,&#8221; MSNBC&#8217;s Chuck Todd <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/meet-the-press\/meet-press-march-8-2020-n1152446\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">asked<\/a> National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases director Dr. Anthony Fauci in 2020, &#8220;that perhaps China&#8217;s authoritarian ways did prevent this? Meaning, had China been a free and open society, this might have spread faster?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>While Fauci said China&#8217;s efforts &#8220;have been draconian,&#8221; he argued that they &#8220;prevented a broader spread.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Fauci at the same time promoted a zero-COVID policy similar to what China is promoting now.<\/p>\n<p>The United States can &#8220;relax social distancing&#8221; when it has &#8220;essentially no new cases,&#8221; Fauci <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ABCWorldNews\/status\/1245487372663492608\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a> in April 2020.<\/p>\n<p>A <i>New York Times<\/i>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/03\/13\/opinion\/china-response-china.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">op-ed<\/a>\u00a0in March 2020 went further, arguing that some of China&#8217;s COVID-19 policies &#8220;were motivated by serious concern for the public good.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>While multiple media sources reported last month that China was seeking to end or soften its zero-COVID policy, the government totally committed to the policy in response to a COVID outbreak in Shanghai.<\/p>\n<p>In one case, Shanghai resident Esther Zhao brought her two-year-old daughter to the hospital with a fever.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Three days later,&#8221; Reuters <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/china\/shanghai-separates-covid-positive-children-parents-virus-fight-2022-04-02\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a>, &#8220;Zhao was begging health authorities not to separate them after she and the little girl both tested positive for COVID-19, saying her daughter was too young to be taken away to a quarantine center for children.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In response, doctors threatened Zhao, saying that unless she sent her daughter to the quarantine center, the girl would be left alone at the hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Zhao told Reuters that she has received no information on her daughter, except for a single text message, since authorities took the two-year-old away.<\/p>\n<p>Chinese citizens have taken to social media, including the state-censored platform Weibo, to express their outrage at the policy.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is horrific,&#8221; one person said in response to a picture that shows &#8220;wailing babies kept three to a cot&#8221; in a quarantine facility.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;How could the government come up with such a plan?&#8221; another asked.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Health officials in Shanghai are separating COVID-positive babies and young children from their families as part of the Chinese government&#8217;s brutal zero-COVID policy, the Daily Mail reported Monday. 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