One of the hardest things to bear about the Shanghai lockdown, says a contact who has been shut in a small apartment with her father for the past two weeks, is the uncertainty. She spends her days on WeChat message groups, trying to co-ordinate bulk food orders, or looking out of the window to see where the authorities have placed the red lines of their cordon sanitaire, which residents must not cross. There is little other information.

Social media shows a city on the edge. Residents yell from their balconies and demand food. Drones broadcast messages demanding they return inside. Thousands of people who have tested positive are crammed into isolation centres.
Financial Times

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And here is another article… https://archive.ph/JaczC

Shanghai is Descending Into Hell

Imagine a virus so deadly you have to lock 25 million people in their homes indefinitely and deny them food to save them….

There are reports of children being separated from their parents, and thousands being put into quarantine camps. Some people are running out of food and cannot go out to buy more. Pets owned by those sent to quarantine are being euthanized.

Drones have been flying around the city with loud speakers saying: “Control your soul’s desire for freedom.”

So, if you’re living in the west, and politicians start saying more lockdowns are necessary… grab your pitchforks.

Related reading: A Warning from Shanghai

The Unmaking of the Canadian Constitution

Emergencies Act Not Justified

Justin Trudeau invoked the Emergencies Act to deal with the Freedom Convoy protest. High conditions must be met, conditions which prove the nation is under serious threat, in order for the Emergencies Act to be invoked. One threat could be major foreign funding coming in to overthrow the government. Were the donations coming in through GoFundMe and GiveSendGo such a threat?

In testimony before the Commons public safety and national security committee on Feb. 10, [Barry MacKillop, deputy director of intelligence at the Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre (FINTRAC)] said FINTRAC doesn’t view crowdfunding platforms as major sources of money to undermine the Canadian economy or the government.

“We do not consider crowdfunding platforms to be tools that could be used to launder money or finance terrorist activities,” he said.

“There is always a risk that someone could … but that’s not necessarily the tools they would choose. There are, in fact, many other ways that are probably easier to use to launder money or collect funds to finance terrorist activities.”

Liberal MP Taleeb Noormohamed asked: “Do you have any concerns or have there been any flags raised thus far around potential sources of funding for what has been happening in Ottawa?”

And MacKillop responded: “No. In terms of the sources of funding that we’ve seen to date … we have not seen a spike in suspicious transaction reporting … related to this.”

Source: Toronto Sun

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