Here is what the outbreak looks like, if we are to believe the numbers coming out of China. You'll have to excuse me for being frank, but I simply don't believe them. China has lied about nearly everything since the beginning of the pandemic, and they certainly don't have the rest of the world's best interest in mind now that they are allying with Russia economically.

Rather, I believe the numbers are likely being exaggerated one way or the other (just as I believe China does with their macroeconomic data), in order to meet the needs of whatever agenda the CCP is trying to push.

Here we are, two years into Covid, with ample time behind us to have studied the virus, developed vaccines, boosters and therapeutics and allowed for natural immunity to spread – and China is locking down the city of 26.3 million people at the first sign of a couple cases of Covid.

The actions China has taken to implement this round of lockdowns have been dystopian and Orwellian, to say the least.

For example, according to the NY Times:

all international flights to and from Shanghai have been halted

many roads to the city's two airports have also been closed

the government performed P.C.R. tests on 25.67 million people

the government has not allowed residents to go to grocery stores

the government has put together tens of thousands of cots in two convention centers as quarantine centers - but they don't have showering facilities

China is also, once again, sealing people in their homes. Videos on social media "show trapped residents howling and screaming from inside high-rise buildings at night," The Independent wrote this week.