[Epoch Times, April 10, 2022]The spread of the epidemic in Shanghai has become a top political issue for the CCP. Among them, politics and science, the Cultural Revolution and civilization, epidemic prevention and power struggles, all parties interact with each other and are entangled, highlighting the CCP The political ecology has plunged into extreme chaos and crisis.
High-level repentance confirms the previous “zero” signs of relaxation
The “Wall Street Journal” quoted people familiar with the matter as saying on April 8 that Xi Jinping originally hoped to change the absolute blockade policy and relax the reset, but resumed strict control after the surge in Shanghai’s epidemic.
The Epoch Times said in a report: “The (Wall Street Journal) report quoted people close to the government’s decision-making level that Xi Jinping gave Shanghai leeway to resolve local issues, considering the economic damage and public anger caused by the zero policy. The idea is to have Shanghai locked down only for affected communities. If successful, this approach will provide a template for coexistence with the virus for years to come.”
This news can be mutually confirmed with some signs of relaxation of the mainland’s zero policy. On March 17, at the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China, from the information disclosed in Xi Jinping’s speech, it did not kill the precise prevention and control, but said “to achieve the greatest prevention and control effect at the least cost.”
According to the website of the State Food and Drug Administration of the Communist Party of China, on February 12, Xu Pfizer’s new crown oral liquid was approved under the conditions of emergency review, saying that it can prevent severe illness. It indicates that the CCP may not treat people with symptoms of new crown infection across the board.
On March 15, the National Health and Health Commission issued the “New Coronavirus Pneumonia Diagnosis and Treatment Plan (Trial Version 9)” overnight. The ORF gene Ct value is ≥35, or the nucleic acid test of the new coronavirus is negative for two consecutive times.”
Zhang Wenhong’s explanation for this is: “International research has found that it has also been carefully verified by Chinese experts. After the nucleic acid reaches a certain level, the infectious virus can no longer be detected, so it is almost non-infectious. Therefore, Our nucleic acid positive judgment criteria, from stricter criteria to the current international synchronization, has reduced the standard hospital stay. More patients can be discharged early, which will greatly ease the pressure on our medical resources.”
The above two actions were not issued by Zhang Wenhong, but by the State Food and Drug Administration and the National Health Commission. It shows that the CCP is also considering how to integrate with international standards in the prevention and control of the new crown epidemic.
Xi again faces the dilemma of “not denying each other for 30 years before and after”
However, the institutional shortcomings of the CCP system itself and the absurdity of anti-science and anti-humanity have made Zhongnanhai’s high-level officials difficult to ride again.
Under the CCP system, the original intention, occurrence, development process, outcome, and end of all problems are closely related to politics, that is, whether the power in power is in control, and the game with political opponents.
The absolute zero-clearing policy has caused economic demand to shrink, companies are under-operated, and workers are largely unemployed, which has led to widespread doubts about the CCP’s economic legitimacy. This will undoubtedly become the biggest reason for Xi Jinping to be criticized by his political opponents. As Xi Jinping, who is seeking re-election in a few months, it is indeed a big worry. And his cronie Li Qiang’s use of the expert epidemic prevention model in the past two years has achieved initial results. The Shanghai precise prevention and control model provides a subtle idea for Xi Jinping to revitalize the overall political re-election situation.
But why did Xi Jinping suddenly regret it? “But when the number of confirmed cases in China’s most populous city surged nearly five-fold in the past week, Beijing decided to return to a draconian zero policy,” the Wall Street Journal said.
In my opinion, this is only a superficial reason. The fundamental reason may be that the CCP has always regarded the clearing of numbers as a powerful fact of the system’s advantages and the rise of the east and the west. It is a smear of the CCP system. According to Little Pink’s words, it is handing a knife to the United States and the West, and it is also indirectly acknowledging the fault of the zero-clearing policy.
The official media previously reported that “the epidemic in Shanghai is more serious than that in Wuhan in 2020”, which is a political cost that Xi Jinping cannot accept. Bringing higher political valuations, but when the institutional advantages are on the way out, and the West is “flattened” like the West, and even the soaring epidemic figures have become bullets for Xi’s political opponents, it is inevitable to reset the “Wuhan Model”.
“Xi Jinping made it clear that China cannot back down from its strict zero-clearing policy, even if it means slower economic growth.” “Nothing is more important than clearing the virus.”
The clearing policy and precise prevention and control are inherently conflicting and contradictory. The former is politics and the latter is science. Just like the planned economy and the market economy, if you want to deny each other, you can only deceive yourself.
The CCP intensively releases “clearing” public opinion, but emphasizes “scientific precision”
The CCP’s propaganda and propaganda recently released intensively “clearing” public opinion on epidemic prevention and control, and tried to use the scientism from the CCP’s perspective to give this policy an absolute theoretical basis, the basis for national conditions, and the connotation of political correctness.
Xinhua News Agency has recently published several articles in succession, “Dynamic zeroing is a real people-oriented”, “Why my country insists on dynamic zeroing”, and “A difficult “zeroing war””, repeatedly emphasizing that “if you refer to some practices of ‘coexistence'” ‘The infection rate and death toll of strategic countries and regions, based on China’s total population base of more than 1.4 billion people and the actual national conditions of the huge elderly group, once ‘flattened’, it will cause unbearable losses to people’s lives and property, and the consequences are unimaginable. “.
In these highly politicized texts, the CCP paradoxically endowed the zero-clearing policy with a “scientific” logic, which is the same as the 30,000-jin per mu of the year.
But what is strange is that on April 9, The Paper published Zhong Nanshan’s speech at Nankai University on the 8th entitled “Scientific Guidance to Fight the Epidemic, Climb the Peak of Medicine”, saying, “In the struggle between humans and viruses, the highest human rights are human beings. A healthy life is a healthy life.” Under China’s current situation, “complete opening up is not applicable, dynamic clearing is desirable, but a gradual opening-up policy is required.”
Zhong Nanshan’s words seem to have something to say, politically correct, but scientifically riding the wall. Such words are also reflected in the Xinhua News Agency’s commentary on April 7. Xinhua News Agency quoted Xi Jinping’s March 17 speech at the Politburo Standing Committee in its “Adhering to Scientific Accuracy and “Dynamic Clearing” Unswervingly, “We must always uphold the supremacy of the people and life, and adhere to scientific precision and dynamic clearing.” Zero, to curb the spread of the epidemic as soon as possible.”
On April 3, the CCP sent the military to Shanghai overnight. The Wall Street Journal reported that the military took over the epidemic prevention and control work at the grassroots level.
At the same time, the secondary disasters of Shanghai’s epidemic prevention are overwhelmingly prominent. The separation of flesh and blood from women and children calls for help, people who do not die from the virus are not considered dead, officials inaction, and famine in the closed and controlled areas. Back to the savage primitive ecology.
How can Cultural Revolution-style epidemic prevention put life first? Is carpet clearing to achieve scientific precision? Listen to the party or listen to science, between CCP politics and human science, I am afraid that there will never be a reconciliation.
Zhang Wenhong appeared, Shanghai epidemic prevention entered a mixed war?
On April 9, Zhang Wenhong appeared as an expert of the Shanghai Epidemic Prevention and Control Medical Treatment Team.
On March 25, Zhang Wenhong appeared to disappear from the public after attending a press conference on the epidemic as the leader of the expert group. On March 28, Shanghai closed the city without warning and activated a heavy-duty Cultural Revolution-type epidemic prevention motor, ending the epidemic. Previously, Zhang Wenhong implemented a two-year precise prevention and control strategy. Li Qiang’s political future was also predicted by the outside world with a sudden drop in scores, and it was rumored that Zhang Wenhong had been dismissed from his post.
Chen Sisi, chief reporter of The Paper, interviewed Zhang Wenhong on April 9. According to The Paper, Zhang Wenhong said, “As an expert of the medical treatment expert group, in this wave of epidemics, I am particularly concerned about the protection of vulnerable groups.” “We are an important indicator in evaluating whether a country is doing well in epidemic prevention and control. , that is, whether the vulnerable groups are protected.”
Zhang Wenhong also emphasized that “all kinds of patients, especially critically ill patients, can receive good medical care.” It is believed that Zhang Wenhong, as a front-line expert, was responsible for the death of more than a dozen elderly people in the Shanghai Donghai Nursing Home and the accidental death of Li Chang, a talented girl from Tsinghua University, due to the Cultural Revolution. The medical tragedies caused by the epidemic prevention and control are well known.
Zhang Wenhong also said meaningfully that the battle against Omicron is a big puzzle, “The puzzle contains the basic needs of our people and the entire society under the epidemic.” “Only by exerting all social resources and strength, we can strive to ensure that The people’s ‘medicine’, food, housing and transportation will win this battle.”
Zhang Wenhong’s speech clearly meant something. It has been almost half a month since Shanghai suddenly closed the city, and some places have been closed for more than a month. The sports-style epidemic prevention does not care whether the people live or die. Some people have been starving for four days and told the police that they will rebel, some community governments only give half a carrot to each household, and some Internet bloggers have posted a distress letter online saying that even if only 1% of the residents in Shanghai touch this kind of thing. By then, that is also the disaster of more than 200,000 people facing starvation to death.
Some communities had no choice but to kick out the “party committee” to engage in self-help. Zhang Wenhong’s big puzzle is undoubtedly the default way of self-help for the people. He also said, “In the past few days, the power of the market is also being released, the courier brother has come out, and the e-commerce platform is also recovering.” The surging report also stated that Zhang Wenhong said, “We will definitely continue to explore through continuous exploration. , to explore a scientific path to maintain a low infection rate and fatality rate in the fight against the epidemic.”
Zhang Wenhong’s appearance and the signals released by his speech are subtle and intriguing. Does it mean that the top CCP also realizes that the secondary disasters brought about by the reset have reached an extremely dangerous level, and that Shanghai is already sitting on the powder keg of the civil upheaval ?
Shanghai’s epidemic prevention will enter a mixed mode of clearing and precision? Whether in theory or in practice, this is fundamentally impossible. As long as the CCP is still around, all normal human epidemic prevention models will fail.
Xi Jiangdou is entangled in the anxious system, shackles all the players in the game
The National Health Commission announced on April 9 that Shanghai accounted for 1,015 of the 1,334 local confirmed cases, and Shanghai accounted for 22,609 of the 23,737 asymptomatic infections in the local area, exceeding 20,000 in a single day. Shanghai has indeed “contributed” to the peak of the epidemic. maximum.
Recently, the high-profile party media criticized Shanghai officials for “laying down”. On April 8 and 9, the Shanghai Disciplinary Inspection Commission dealt with five grass-roots officials in a row. This may be Xi Jinping’s signal to send the rest of the party to Shanghai Jiang to clear up. However, the political future of Xi Jinping’s cronie Li Qiang has also been cast a bleak shadow by the outside world.
Xinhuanet pointed out in a comment on the 9th, “From the past experience of epidemic prevention and control, only by concentrating superior forces and ‘dynamically clearing’ as soon as possible can we quickly curb the spread of the epidemic and achieve a true people-oriented approach.”
Zhongnanhai is currently eager to suppress the epidemic in Shanghai, and it seems that the Cultural Revolution-style epidemic prevention will not be loosened for a while. The current epidemic situation in Shanghai has been judged as “the most critical and most strenuous” by the high-level CCP. Because there is no turning point in the digital curve of Shanghai Mystery Chron infection, the negative political impact caused is very big.
There are basically four plans for Zhongnanhai to tighten the epidemic prevention and control route. The first is to take the opportunity to further weaken the strength of the Jiang faction’s Shanghai Gang; the second is to use military control to prevent civil and coup d’etat. When the epidemic is cleared, it also objectively clears human nature at the same time; the third is to protect the 20th National Congress, implement Comprehensively militarize to maintain stability and avoid being restrained by political opponents; fourth, provide a political narrative model for continuously advocating and creating false institutional advantages.
Is it possible in the future that the CCP’s epidemic prevention and control will gradually turn towards opening up? In terms of the subjective wishes of the senior management of Zhongnanhai, this possibility cannot be ruled out. Judging from the reality experienced by the Shanghai epidemic test field, Zhongnanhai has not said that the road of exploration will be blocked forever in the future.
But does Xi Jinping realize that as long as the Jiang faction’s anti-Xi forces are still disrupting the situation, the Xi-style regime will not cease for a day; as long as the CCP still exists, any win-win situation is a nonsense.
The shackles of the CCP system will trap everyone in the game.
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