If you are a supercomputer, built and designed to operate with only pure logic and not a shred of "humanity", compassion, or emotion, and you were placed in charge of a country, and told that 16% of your country's population were "using up valuable resources" by needing constant care and supervision, what conclusion, and solution, will YOUR logic circuits come up with?
SHANGHAI, CHINA, APRIL 11, 2022
One would imagine that a state so "heavily invested" in the health of it's citizens that it would impose a maximum security style lockdown to prevent the transmission of a virus with 99.9% survivability rate would take measures to address all of the other health issues suffered by this population at large, right? The answer is NO.
This current lockdown in Shanghai, now dragging on for the third week, is exposing the ACTUAL, and most insidious campaign by the government, which is, to rid the population of what they claim to be "useless eaters". People who the state considers a drain upon public resources. Chronically ill and feeble individuals who rely on constant medical attention to survive.
As one of the East Asian countries which boasts one of the HIGHEST numbers of elderly individuals, as repeatedly boasted by China's own state CCTV News Agency over the years, this population also sees the highest number of people who must rely on constant medical attention for survival. Medical procedures such as chemotheraphy, dialysis, blood transfusions, surgical wound care management, etc., keeping thousands of people alive in large cities such as Shanghai.
CESSATION OF SERVICES
Yet, during the so called "COVID lockdown" in Shanghai, almost ALL of these lifesaving services were STOPPED. Just bluntly stopped. With utter callousness and precision in it's execution.
Families bringing critically ill relatives to hospitals for treatment were turned away and told that for "public health reasons, no one is allowed in".
Others were simply ignored, and left to wait outside hospitals where patients slowly suffered without procedures ever being performed.
And in other cases, emergency call centers played pranks upon families of desperately ill individuals, directing them to other hospitals, or telling them to find other facilities on their own, but unanimously, EVERY facility which offered such services would be shut down, in laser like precision through orders from the upper echelons of government.
All of this is beginning to point to the ACTUAL goal behind the government's lockdown: To purge the society of those who they believe are a drain upon their resources. And to this extent, it seemed to have worked. Many chronically ill people are dead as of today's date, not from COVID-19, but from necessary lifesaving treatment of their conditions being shut off. The deaths are probably in the hundreds by now going by the reports from families going to international media agencies.
This had been completely planned and carried out with calculated precision. The upper Communist Party leaders have figured out that by the time they "gradually lift" the lockdowns three weeks later, the able-bodied population will emerge, hungry and fatigued and a little sore, but ready to resume working and being productive. Those who are chronically ill, frail, elderly, or very young, would most likely not have survived. Thousands of "unproductive mouths" no longer require feeding. A brand new machine, sanded, deburred, and compressed-air cleaned, all in one precision operation.
Nobody has really called out this observation yet. However, it is utterly clear and obvious by now what the real intent behind this whole thing is.
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Patients in Shanghai are being locked out of life-saving medical treatment as the city pushes ahead with Xi Jinping's zero-COVID policy, RFA has learned.
As large swathes of the city remain under lockdown and thousands of new infections are reported every day, hospitals are increasingly closing their doors to patients, even those in need of dialysis and cancer treatment.
Jiading district resident Wang Zhumin's 77-year-old father -- who would typically need dialysis three times a week -- hasn't been able to get it for seven days, she said.
"I keep seeking out the neighborhood committee and the municipal government, but they tell me they can't get him into Jiading Central Hospital, and that we can't come in," Wang said. "I said, so does that mean he has to stay home and wait for death?"
Wang's father once received dialysis three times a week at Haihua Hospital near his home, but that facility was initially hit by staff shortages and a lack of beds, then announced it was shutting down the dialysis clinic because of a COVID-19 outbreak.
Neither the neighborhood committee, the city government nor emergency services have been able to help, she said.
"They told me to find a hospital myself ... like kicking a ball around," she said. She later took her father to the Jiading Central Hospital and waited all day on the off-chance of a dialysis slot, but went home with nothing.
"I didn't see hide nor hair of a doctor," Wang said.
Repeated calls to the Haihua Hospital and the Jiading Central Hospital ER rang unanswered on April 7 and April 8.
According to Haihua Hospital's WeChat account, the hospital has dispatched more than 500 people to "the front line" to support the mandatory, city-wide COVID-19 testing effort.
The Jiading Central Hospital also sent some 100 medical staff to Pudong to support the PCR testing operation there on March 28, according to publicly available information.
More than 20,000 patients in Shanghai rely on regular dialysis to stay alive, and new appointments were already few and far between.
A report in the China News Weekly said many dialysis facilities have been shut during lockdown, with their staff in compulsory isolation centers after testing positive for COVID-19.
Desperate patients -- including those needing dialysis, cancer treatment or those with complex chronic illnesses -- frequently post appeals to social media calling for help from somewhere; anywhere.
Shen Ruiyin, a 77-year- old Shanghai resident, died on the evening of March 28 due to heart failure caused by going without kidney dialysis for a prolonged period. His son Shen Li took to Weibo to complain that his father had been transferred between three difference hospitals after testing positive for COVID-19 on March 26.
He died alone in the hospital, with no family at his side, without the medication he needed, and with no dialysis, Shen Li wrote.
Qi Guoyong, a 79 -year-old Shanghai resident, lost his wife Zhang Siling at the end of March.
"I am very saddened by the death of my wife, but I can't do anything about it," Qi told RFA. "I hope the hospital can give me some kind of answer... I just want them to give me an explanation."
Qi said the hospital is "too busy" to worry about his wife's death, with a huge backlog of cancer patients awaiting chemotherapy.
But he wants to know if Zhang, who was passed around three different hospitals after presenting with abdominal pain on March 22, was misdiagnosed; if anything could have been done to save her.
Zhang was initially treated for pancreatitis, before developing sepsis likely caused by a bowel obstruction, Qi said.
A Hangzhou resident surnamed Lei, 33, said she had brought her terminally ill mother to Shanghai to seek treatment at the Shanghai Fudan Cancer Hospital on March 23, and surgery was scheduled within seven days from her admission.
But lockdown hit, and Lei's mother's surgery was repeatedly postponed, with doctors telling Lei that her mother had to wait two weeks because they weren't Shanghai residents.
"We are really desperate," Lei said. "My mother's metastatic tumor could still be surgically removed, but it's been more than 60 days since her last chemotherapy, and the tumor could grow ... or metastasize at any time."
"My mother has diabetes, and there is no food or medicine available around here ... this has been devastating for my mother's mental health."
It's a humanitarian disaster that has rippled through Shanghai since lockdown came.
At least two asthma patients have died after being refused treatment by medical staff on the grounds of disease prevention, according to online reports.
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SHANGHAI, CHINA, APRIL 11, 2022
One would imagine that a state so "heavily invested" in the health of it's citizens that it would impose a maximum security style lockdown to prevent the transmission of a virus with 99.9% survivability rate would take measures to address all of the other health issues suffered by this population at large, right? The answer is NO.
This current lockdown in Shanghai, now dragging on for the third week, is exposing the ACTUAL, and most insidious campaign by the government, which is, to rid the population of what they claim to be "useless eaters". People who the state considers a drain upon public resources. Chronically ill and feeble individuals who rely on constant medical attention to survive.
As one of the East Asian countries which boasts one of the HIGHEST numbers of elderly individuals, as repeatedly boasted by China's own state CCTV News Agency over the years, this population also sees the highest number of people who must rely on constant medical attention for survival. Medical procedures such as chemotheraphy, dialysis, blood transfusions, surgical wound care management, etc., keeping thousands of people alive in large cities such as Shanghai.
CESSATION OF SERVICES
Yet, during the so called "COVID lockdown" in Shanghai, almost ALL of these lifesaving services were STOPPED. Just bluntly stopped. With utter callousness and precision in it's execution.
Families bringing critically ill relatives to hospitals for treatment were turned away and told that for "public health reasons, no one is allowed in".
Others were simply ignored, and left to wait outside hospitals where patients slowly suffered without procedures ever being performed.
And in other cases, emergency call centers played pranks upon families of desperately ill individuals, directing them to other hospitals, or telling them to find other facilities on their own, but unanimously, EVERY facility which offered such services would be shut down, in laser like precision through orders from the upper echelons of government.
All of this is beginning to point to the ACTUAL goal behind the government's lockdown: To purge the society of those who they believe are a drain upon their resources. And to this extent, it seemed to have worked. Many chronically ill people are dead as of today's date, not from COVID-19, but from necessary lifesaving treatment of their conditions being shut off. The deaths are probably in the hundreds by now going by the reports from families going to international media agencies.
This had been completely planned and carried out with calculated precision. The upper Communist Party leaders have figured out that by the time they "gradually lift" the lockdowns three weeks later, the able-bodied population will emerge, hungry and fatigued and a little sore, but ready to resume working and being productive. Those who are chronically ill, frail, elderly, or very young, would most likely not have survived. Thousands of "unproductive mouths" no longer require feeding. A brand new machine, sanded, deburred, and compressed-air cleaned, all in one precision operation.
Nobody has really called out this observation yet. However, it is utterly clear and obvious by now what the real intent behind this whole thing is.
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Patients in Shanghai are being locked out of life-saving medical treatment as the city pushes ahead with Xi Jinping's zero-COVID policy, RFA has learned.
As large swathes of the city remain under lockdown and thousands of new infections are reported every day, hospitals are increasingly closing their doors to patients, even those in need of dialysis and cancer treatment.
Jiading district resident Wang Zhumin's 77-year-old father -- who would typically need dialysis three times a week -- hasn't been able to get it for seven days, she said.
"I keep seeking out the neighborhood committee and the municipal government, but they tell me they can't get him into Jiading Central Hospital, and that we can't come in," Wang said. "I said, so does that mean he has to stay home and wait for death?"
Wang's father once received dialysis three times a week at Haihua Hospital near his home, but that facility was initially hit by staff shortages and a lack of beds, then announced it was shutting down the dialysis clinic because of a COVID-19 outbreak.
Neither the neighborhood committee, the city government nor emergency services have been able to help, she said.
"They told me to find a hospital myself ... like kicking a ball around," she said. She later took her father to the Jiading Central Hospital and waited all day on the off-chance of a dialysis slot, but went home with nothing.
"I didn't see hide nor hair of a doctor," Wang said.
Repeated calls to the Haihua Hospital and the Jiading Central Hospital ER rang unanswered on April 7 and April 8.
According to Haihua Hospital's WeChat account, the hospital has dispatched more than 500 people to "the front line" to support the mandatory, city-wide COVID-19 testing effort.
The Jiading Central Hospital also sent some 100 medical staff to Pudong to support the PCR testing operation there on March 28, according to publicly available information.
More than 20,000 patients in Shanghai rely on regular dialysis to stay alive, and new appointments were already few and far between.
A report in the China News Weekly said many dialysis facilities have been shut during lockdown, with their staff in compulsory isolation centers after testing positive for COVID-19.
Desperate patients -- including those needing dialysis, cancer treatment or those with complex chronic illnesses -- frequently post appeals to social media calling for help from somewhere; anywhere.
Shen Ruiyin, a 77-year- old Shanghai resident, died on the evening of March 28 due to heart failure caused by going without kidney dialysis for a prolonged period. His son Shen Li took to Weibo to complain that his father had been transferred between three difference hospitals after testing positive for COVID-19 on March 26.
He died alone in the hospital, with no family at his side, without the medication he needed, and with no dialysis, Shen Li wrote.
Qi Guoyong, a 79 -year-old Shanghai resident, lost his wife Zhang Siling at the end of March.
"I am very saddened by the death of my wife, but I can't do anything about it," Qi told RFA. "I hope the hospital can give me some kind of answer... I just want them to give me an explanation."
Qi said the hospital is "too busy" to worry about his wife's death, with a huge backlog of cancer patients awaiting chemotherapy.
But he wants to know if Zhang, who was passed around three different hospitals after presenting with abdominal pain on March 22, was misdiagnosed; if anything could have been done to save her.
Zhang was initially treated for pancreatitis, before developing sepsis likely caused by a bowel obstruction, Qi said.
A Hangzhou resident surnamed Lei, 33, said she had brought her terminally ill mother to Shanghai to seek treatment at the Shanghai Fudan Cancer Hospital on March 23, and surgery was scheduled within seven days from her admission.
But lockdown hit, and Lei's mother's surgery was repeatedly postponed, with doctors telling Lei that her mother had to wait two weeks because they weren't Shanghai residents.
"We are really desperate," Lei said. "My mother's metastatic tumor could still be surgically removed, but it's been more than 60 days since her last chemotherapy, and the tumor could grow ... or metastasize at any time."
"My mother has diabetes, and there is no food or medicine available around here ... this has been devastating for my mother's mental health."
It's a humanitarian disaster that has rippled through Shanghai since lockdown came.
At least two asthma patients have died after being refused treatment by medical staff on the grounds of disease prevention, according to online reports.
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