Tesla’s first-quarter 2022 profit hit a record high; but on releasing the results, Tesla also said that the COVID-19 pandemic has brought significant pressure on the company’s supply chain and factory operations. At present, only a fraction of its companies in certain regions in China have resumed work. Experts in China’s industrial economy research admit…
Partial Resumption of Work in China’s Locked-Down Cities Cannot Break the Supply Chain Bottlenecks: Analyst
HSI Fell 769 Points Below the 20,000 Mark Amid US Interest Rate Hike and China’s Pandemic
Hong Kong’s Hang Seng Index (HSI) opened low at 353 points on April 25 before falling further and further to the 20,000 mark. The U.S. interest rate hike intensified. The Dow plunged 981 points on April 22; Asian stocks collapsed on April 25; the HSI fell 769 points, down about 3.7 percent. The day’s high…
Shanghai Residents Tell of Death and Suffering During Strict Lockdown
The continuous pandemic lockdown of Shanghai has caused various humanitarian crises for residents. People are starving from lack of food and patients are struggling to get necessary medical treatment. There have been several deaths involving patients with acute but treatable illnesses, as they had to have a negative COVID-19 test result before being admitted to…
China’s Largest Industrial City Suzhou Forced Into COVID-19 Lockdown
Suzhou City of Jiangsu Province announced on April 16 that it will implement closed-off management to curb the latest COVID-19 outbreak. Suzhou is one of the major industrial centers in China. Its industrial output surpassed that of Shanghai last year. The Suzhou Municipal Government Information Office announced on its WeChat account that starting from 12…
Shanghai Residents Pushed to Their Limits Amid Ongoing Lockdown
Shanghai’s draconian lockdown has caused chaos, humanitarian disasters, and mounting public outrage. Some Shanghai residents say the collateral damage from the authorities’ frantic “Zero-COVID” approach is much worse than the effects of the virus itself. After 9 p.m. on April 16, Shanghai’s Pudong government released an online statement addressed to the district’s residents that said the…
8 Confirmed COVID-19 Cases in 2 weeks, Entire Residential Area in Beijing Locked Down
On April 9, a residential neighborhood with an area of about 2 square miles in Beijing’s densely populated Chaoyang district was declared a high-risk area, because in the past 14 days, there were eight confirmed local cases of COVID-19 infection, according to the deputy director of the Beijing Municipal Center for Disease Control and Prevention….
Banned Film Exposes the Real Reason for the COVID Pandemic
Prior to 2020, if you heard the term “lockdown” you might think of something that happens in a prison — not in a free society. This mechanism of control has since become commonplace — not among prisoners but among the free — with repercussions that are only beginning to be understood. The film Planet Lockdown…
Is Covid Policy Comedy, Tragedy, or Both?
Commentary The Saturday Night Live skit on Covid policy is a welcome relief, a cultural sign that rationality has started to return. Yes, the segment is truly hilarious. And it reveals so much about the present moment in which even highly politicized elites are realizing that the dissidents in the Covid wars had it right…
Rep. Murphy Wants More Studies to Assess the Impact of Lockdowns
Further assessment of the impact of COVID-19 lockdowns must be conducted, said Rep. Greg Murphy (R-N.C.), a practicing physician, because initial data show that there were many unintended deaths from isolating people at home. “We know a lot more people have died in relation to what our actions were during the pandemic, than maybe perhaps even…
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