China descends into a COVID lockdown hellscape
Posted By: Dreadnought, 11/27/2022 11:10:45 AM
China has always been a brutal communist tyranny, a giant prison where some 11 million people have fled who were able to, just in 2019 alone. But it seems the 34,000 COVID cases in the country have been enough to put the entire nation of one billion into a lockdown prison -- of mankind's worst nightmare. When they say 'lockdown,' they mean literally welding people's apartments shut -- with the people in them. There are plenty more different video clips like these in this piece by PJMedia's Ben Bartee, who observes:
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