{"id":50997,"date":"2020-02-07T09:19:16","date_gmt":"2020-02-07T14:19:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=50997"},"modified":"2020-02-07T09:19:22","modified_gmt":"2020-02-07T14:19:22","slug":"a-stunning-400-million-people-are-on-lockdown-in-china-as-guangzhou-joins-quarantine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=50997","title":{"rendered":"A Stunning 400 Million People Are On Lockdown In China As Guangzhou Joins Quarantine"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/geopolitical\/more-400-million-people-lockdown-guangzhou-joins-quarantine\">A Stunning 400 Million People Are On Lockdown In China As Guangzhou Joins Quarantine<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Guangzhou, the capital of China&#8217;s southwestern Guangdong Province and the country&#8217;s fifth largest city with nearly 15 million residents, has just joined the ranks of cities imposing a mandatory lockdown on all citizens, effectively trapping residents inside their homes, with only limited permission to venture into the outside world to buy essential supplies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The decision means&nbsp;<strong>3 provinces, 60 cities and 400 million people&nbsp;<\/strong>are now facing China&#8217;s most-strict level of lockdown as Beijing struggles to contain the coronavirus outbreak as the virus has already spread to more than 2 dozen countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/inline-images\/Screen%20Shot%202020-02-07%20at%207.49.10%20AM.png\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/Screen%20Shot%202020-02-07%20at%207.49.10%20AM.png?itok=8SiV7Skh\"><\/a>That&#8217;s more than 400 million people forcibly locked inside their homes for 638 deaths? Just think about that:\u00a0<strong>If there was ever a reason to believe that Beijing is lying about the numbers (and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/health\/did-chinas-tencent-accidentally-leak-true-terrifying-coronavirus-statistics\">not just because Tencent accidentally leaked<\/a>\u00a0the real data),\u00a0<em>this is it.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jenniferatntd\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/profile_images\/1165454070854930432\/rlFABk5V_normal.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Breaking: Guangzhou City (population: 14 M) locked down. All residential blocks be isolated from each other.  So far around 400 million people locked down in <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/China?src=hash\">#China<\/a> to contain <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/coronavirus?src=hash\">#coronavirus<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/coronavirusOutbreak?src=hash\">#coronavirusOutbreak<\/a> Original Chinese official report:<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/emfLIaOLut\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/m.xinhuanet.com\/gd\/2020-02\/07\/c_1125542462.htm&nbsp;\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, in the US, the Trump Administration has directed researchers to investigate the &#8216;true origins&#8217; of the virus, as &#8216;conspiracy theories&#8217; and misinformation spreads online. We can&#8217;t help but wonder: What if the scientists discover something that the regime in Beijing doesn&#8217;t want them to see?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Stunning 400 Million People Are On Lockdown In China As Guangzhou Joins Quarantine Guangzhou, the capital of China&#8217;s southwestern Guangdong Province and the country&#8217;s fifth largest city with nearly 15 million residents, has just joined the ranks of cities imposing a mandatory lockdown on all citizens, effectively trapping residents inside their homes, with only [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6],"tags":[130,28973,507,664],"class_list":["post-50997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-liberty","tag-china","tag-guangzhou","tag-martial-law","tag-quarantine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50997"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50998,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50997\/revisions\/50998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}