760 million now in residential lockdown (China)

To stop the spread of the coronavirus much of China has effectively shut down. What’s not been fully appreciated is how extensive the closures are. By our calculations 760 million are living under some kind of residential lockdown. https://t.co/ZuO31QVi6g

— Paul Mozur 孟建國 (@paulmozur) February 15, 2020

It’s one of the largest social control experiments ever anywhere, even in China. To do it, Beijing is relying on local party officials, police, and busybodies known as grid workers. They’ve effectively closed down many cities to outsiders. This is a station at a closed city: Yiwu pic.twitter.com/9x27uDjxHI

— Paul Mozur 孟建國 (@paulmozur) February 15, 2020

There are blocks of all kinds. Some cities don’t let anyone in who doesn’t have a fixed address. Some force outsiders into 14 day quarantines. Building complexes have checkpoints. Some don’t allow guests. Others limit how often people can leave with makeshift passes like below. pic.twitter.com/Ufqfv11VJo

— Paul Mozur 孟建國 (@paulmozur) February 15, 2020

Likely more than 100 mln people are being limited to how often they can leave their apartment. Rules can be random, enforcement arbitrary. That’s what happens when you have so many grassroots communist party types enforcing rules. At a village level, many have set up barricades. pic.twitter.com/DnBqB6QcZx

— Paul Mozur 孟建國 (@paulmozur) February 15, 2020

https://www.confirmationbias.io/?p=20198

You do know that is 1/2 the population.

Their government is not capable of doing this……many live way out in rural areas very hard to reach…..no government assistance get out their….so how can they even begin to lock it down.

AC