Feb032022

Episode 482 – China is A-Hole!

The Olympics are starting in China. China continues to be an oppressive society and are using the the pandemic to squeeze their citizens. Let’s talk about that.

 

News

Here is some news I’m sure you heard about and have gotten tons of commentary on. I don’t see a real reason to go too much into detail about them:

  • In COVID news:
    • Reuters has reported that there might be anti-viral effects which could be a therapeutic to fighting COVID.
    • Johns Hopkins has done a meta study about the lockdowns in the United States.
      • In the report: “While this meta-analysis concludes that lockdowns have had little to no public health effects, they have imposed enormous economic and social costs where they have been adopted. In consequence, lockdown policies are ill-founded and should be rejected as a pandemic policy instrument.”
      • They found that COVID mortality would have dropped .2%.
      • “These costs to society must be compared to the benefits of lockdowns, which our meta-analysis has shown are marginal at best. Such a standard benefit-cost calculation leads to a strong conclusion: lockdowns should be rejected out of hand as a pandemic policy instrument.”
      • Researchers also pointed out other unintended consequences of lockdowns, such as rising unemployment, reduced schooling, an increase in domestic violence incidents, and surging drug overdoses.
    • Finally, it looks like Omicron is petering out. New York used to average 40,000 cases a day. They are down to 4000 cases a day.
  • Remember we talked about the corruption of Black Lives Matter on Monday? The California Department of Justice has ordered BLM to turn over their financial records. We’ll have to see where this is going to go because I’m not sure BLM is going to cooperate and I think California will blink first.
  • Whoopie Goldberg has been suspended from The View for saying that the Holocaust was not about race but about man’s cruelty to man. That would be news to Hitler. He referred to the Jews as an inferior race.
    • Basically she was saying there can’t be racism since the Jews and Germans are both white.
    • She apologized, sort of, but why is she only suspended? Rosanne Barr was pulled from her top rated show for some stupid comments.
    • By the way, the Left believes what she believes. Racism doesn’t go against white only people of color. We’ll talk more about that on Friday.
  • I don’t know what’s wrong with people at CNN not being able to keep their pants on but Jeff Zucker, the CEO of CNN, has resigned for not reporting an affair he was having with a staffer.
  • Joe Biden is sending 3000 troops are being deployed to Germany, Poland and Romania to counter Russia’s aggression toward Ukraine.
  • In January, 24 police officers have been shot and 10 have been killed. in all of 2021, 74 police officers were killed. As you can see, we are in a pretty ugly pace here.

https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/japans-kowa-says-ivermectin-effective-against-omicron-phase-iii-trial-2022-01-31/
https://www.foxnews.com/us/lockdowns-reduced-covid-19-mortality-by-2-study-finds-lockdowns-should-be-rejected-out-of-hand
https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/celebrities-react-whoopi-goldberg-holocaust-comments

 

Here We Go

According to the Wall Street Journal:

The Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics that open Friday will by many measures be the most complicated on record.

China’s “zero-Covid” approach, with strict testing protocols, effectively puts the Games in a bubble. Geopolitical tensions are high. Governments are protesting the country’s alleged human-rights abuses and warning about state-backed cybersecurity threats.

At the heart of it all are athletes navigating a maze of issues around health, safety, politics and free speech—while competing in one of the most important events of their lives. Team members have gone to great lengths to avoid catching Covid-19 in the days leading up to the Games. Some stayed away from loved ones for weeks or months. Many are leaving their phones at home over spying concerns.

We will talk about the zero-COVID policies in a few minutes because it’s important. That’s what the Left wants to do here and it is truly horrifying.

Concerning the Olympics, I’ll say it again, we shouldn’t be there. This is an corrupt, oppressive and genocidal country. But I’ll go a step further: Our athletes aren’t safe there. Some of the things the U.S. government is warning them about:

  • They are facing heavy COVID restrictions:
    •  They will not be able to leave the Olympic campus.
    • Beijing Olympics organizers decided to require that all Games participants be vaccinated or submit to a 21-day quarantine.
    • They will be tested daily.
    • They are bringing back the anal swab tests.
    • If two confirmatory tests after the arrival test are also positive, Beijing 2022’s protocols call for people to go to an isolation facility or to a hospital, depending on symptoms, where they stay until they are symptom-free and have two negative Covid tests 24 hours apart.
    • If they have a positive test, they must prove they are well enough to compete.
    • These restrictions could be a way to keep favored American athletes out of competition.
      • China wants to win.
      • Remember, they manipulated the medal count, adding Taiwan’s medals, so they could beat the United States.
  • Leaders of several national Olympic committees, including Team USA, advised their athletes to use disposable or “burner” phones to avoid potential government surveillance.
  • Some competitors feel that their personal safety is at risk and they point to Chinese tennis star Peng Shuai, who disappeared from public view in early November after an accusation of sexual assault against a retired high-ranking politician appeared on her social-media account.
  • Athletes are being warned to behave and not talk about politics. A Beijing organizing committee official said in a recent news conference that behavior or speech that violated the Olympic spirit could be subject to “certain punishment.” We don’t know what that is but no one wants to find out.

We shouldn’t be over. The Biden administration should have made that clear but Joe Biden is making way too much money from China. And that diplomatic boycott is just stupid. He might have just done nothing.

But I wonder about the athletes. I understand that an Olympic athlete has a short shelf life but is this worth it? The athletes are going to be there for three months and completely isolated. They have to worry about what they say, worry about being spied on and worry about being ghosted (as China is known to do).

If it was me, I’d just stay home.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/beijing-olympics-winter-games-athletes-covid-china-politics-11643562434

 

Well, Duh!

FBI Director, Christopher Wray had some very stark words about China. Right now, the FBI is expecting a cyber attack from Russia and China and he wanted to address this. He made some comments as a keynote speaker at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library :

“There is so much good we could do with a responsible Chinese government: crack down on cybercriminals, stop money launderers, reduce opioid overdose deaths. But at the FBI, we’re focused on the reality of the Chinese government today.”

“When we tally up what we see in our investigations—over 2,000 of which are focused on the Chinese government trying to steal our information or technology—there is just no country that presents a broader threat to our ideas, our innovation, and our economic security than China.”

Maybe he should have been a little more aggressive when Joe Biden was figuring out whether or not to send our athletes over to China.

He also said:

“China may be the first government to combine authoritarian ambitions with cutting-edge technical capability. It’s like the surveillance nightmare of East Germany combined with the tech of Silicon Valley.”

This is an awesome comment. We are not dealing with the fact that Silicon Valley is working directly with China to control information to Chinese hear, enforce China’s social credit score and help China with their surveillance programs. To make things worse, these companies (Apple, Google and Facebook) give their technology to China because it’s required by the government to do business in China. They won’t do this for the United States. Remember, Apple wouldn’t help the FBI crack the encryption for the terrorists’ phones after the attack in San Bernardino in 2015.

And it’s no secret: Silicon Valley wants to do the same thing here, primarily for profit and the spreading of the Leftist ideology. We’re seeing it now.

China wants the United States to be China. And Silicon Valley is helping them toward their goals.

https://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/director-wray-addresses-threats-posed-to-the-us-by-china-020122

 

 

 

 

https://www.wsj.com/articles/chinas-plan-to-make-permanent-health-tracking-on-smartphones-stirs-concern-11590422497

 

 

 

 

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2021/11/05/1052811962/one-chinese-town-has-started-a-fiery-online-debate-about-chinas-zero-covid-polic

 

https://sg.news.yahoo.com/coronavirus-china-wants-permanent-quarantine-133858270.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAHJotdLz4hSOeYzYTvf-siyfiNMw2aWfFBKz-IUZiKLZPBRO8ak_MH_MOhHwFEptssRDszObSwbNoKjgDnjAdkCWM7cWB_0jMS6r1tTYhmbvlx-6IqU6ZYvg8SnjvOEIznrjL-0RHzNW6-QNVh2MSurqDEV2N01tQLuYKZiIlmkT