It’s Over - China’s Zero Covid Policy Failed

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  • @ADVChina
    @ADVChina  2 ปีที่แล้ว +65

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    • @Tacit_Tern
      @Tacit_Tern 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Excellent episode, Gentlemen.
      I highly recommend checking out the Center for Strategic and International Studies [CSIS] coverage assessing China's Human Capital. There's quite a bit of old and new information being presented.

    • @dustinbauer3554
      @dustinbauer3554 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yep

    • @secretbassrigs
      @secretbassrigs 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      They don't call me the "Oracle" for nothing

    • @waynetaylor2784
      @waynetaylor2784 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Or live in Australia n get Doctor home visit 24/7 for $0 😀

    • @Will_Smith_Slapping_Xi_Jinping
      @Will_Smith_Slapping_Xi_Jinping 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@waynetaylor2784
      Pretty soon, the medicine in Australia will be traditional Chinese nonsense.
      Like Bone of Bat wing + Tiger Wang = Skyrim type of stuff.

  • @kayrosis5523
    @kayrosis5523 2 ปีที่แล้ว +396

    As a Chinese acquaintance said to me "The CCP doesn't care what you die of, so long as it's not covid."

    • @MK_ULTRA420
      @MK_ULTRA420 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      That wouldn't make sense if covid was brought to China from another country, which is still the narrative from Chinese media.

    • @Rekhan4242
      @Rekhan4242 2 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      That's really dark! They are people, they should be allowed to live.

    • @MK_ULTRA420
      @MK_ULTRA420 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Rekhan4242 *Chinese people

    • @guguigugu
      @guguigugu 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Rekhan4242 there are no people in communism, only cattle

    • @brandon3872
      @brandon3872 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      It's very true, I can't imagine how many people are unnecessarily suffering and dying from other causes in China right now because of the zero covid policy.

  • @Ssmetalslime
    @Ssmetalslime 2 ปีที่แล้ว +518

    Watching you two for 5 years now. You are the ccp's worst p.r. nightmare. Keep enlightening people, thank you. Back🇯🇵Nihon

    • @Ebani
      @Ebani 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      'murica don't need any, it can do it itself 🤣

    • @记住天安门广场
      @记住天安门广场 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Been following for 4 years. Best entertainment.

    • @justcody4615
      @justcody4615 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I worry how long it might take Japan to reopen. I understand why, I would take forever too to reopen if senior citizens made up such a huge demographic, but I know a few people who've been waiting a long time for business to resume to get back home.
      Godspeed Japan

    • @mateor7302
      @mateor7302 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@justcody4615 Asia in general is very conforming and risk adverse

    • @delta8402
      @delta8402 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Well, actually no one cares about them. Even the fan of some vtb in China is more than them. What they're saying is also pretty funny, because whether what they say cannot deter the fact that we Chinese what to wipe out COVID, and we'll continue no matter what two or three people look at it.

  • @ON-gi2yb
    @ON-gi2yb 2 ปีที่แล้ว +157

    As an expat living in Shanghai currently, I can only and absolutely confirm your information you are broadcasting here. Thank you for your great reports and shows every week. Keep doing this good job and to show the world what’s happening here right now.

    • @PuerRidcully
      @PuerRidcully 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Won't you get in trouble for using VPN?

    • @ON-gi2yb
      @ON-gi2yb 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      @@PuerRidcully what’s a VPN? 😉

    • @DD-tr8do
      @DD-tr8do 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Fully agree with that - also an expat in SH

    • @weirdwolly409
      @weirdwolly409 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@ON-gi2yb hahaahahahah

    • @FrostbitexP
      @FrostbitexP 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      *Immigrant

  • @jimflagg4009
    @jimflagg4009 2 ปีที่แล้ว +65

    Did you see the Tik Tok of the lady asking to stay locked in their home instead of going to a Covid camp? She asked them to put a lock on her door so she can't leave because it is safer than a Covid camp.

    • @ianmoone316
      @ianmoone316 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      She probably had a beloved pet that she didn't want killed by the turds in the white suits.

    • @reefsroost696
      @reefsroost696 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Of course, if you don't have covid when you get there you'll have it before you leave.

    • @Oleandra-13
      @Oleandra-13 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Not to mention the theft and damage to property by the Da Bai.

    • @jimflagg4009
      @jimflagg4009 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Oleandra-13 Really? I know they are going into houses and disinfecting and killing pets but they are stealing too.

    • @ClayinSWVA
      @ClayinSWVA 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Was that the one were the Police Officer got really mad and said her family would be punished for 3 generations over her refusal? It was on a recent China Insight video.

  • @mrbiscuits246
    @mrbiscuits246 2 ปีที่แล้ว +94

    I’ve been around and only seen that kind of traffic dysfunction in 3rd world countries. Kabul very much comes to mind.

    • @bean420man
      @bean420man 2 ปีที่แล้ว +27

      As much as I hate to say it, much of China is still 3rd world. Yes, the big cities are modern but the rural areas are poverty-stricken. Even some of the big cities are too.

    • @dylanvienet7923
      @dylanvienet7923 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Same in Baghdad. Visited in 2021, and took me well over 2 hours to travel from my hotel to the airport. About 15-20 kilometres

    • @Siegetower
      @Siegetower 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I argue China is very much still a 3rd world country.

    • @samuraiboi2735
      @samuraiboi2735 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@bean420man the cities themselves are already turned into prisons just like every prisoner story i heard which pretty much makes and shanghai is one example.

    • @prplt
      @prplt 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      in Russia it happens also sometimes

  • @neighborhoodcatlady6094
    @neighborhoodcatlady6094 2 ปีที่แล้ว +144

    This traffic jam reminds me of an experience that my family had on an airplane in China. My mom, brother, and I were boarded and seated on a Chinese airplane. They continued to board people onto the flight after all of the seats were full. The airline employees had no idea of what to do. We just sat there quietly for hours while everyone around us argued. Nobody standing in the aisles or seats would get off the plane and the airlines did not offer any compensation to folks who would take a later flight. It was crazy. Finally some Chinese folks got off the plane and we took off.

    • @davidneufeld26
      @davidneufeld26 2 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      Just be glad no one threw any "lucky" coins into the engines before they boarded.

    • @s0nnyburnett
      @s0nnyburnett 2 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      bug people

    • @uwanttono4012
      @uwanttono4012 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Reminds me of the time I was in a check-in line at Nanjing airport in 2010 waiting to board a flight to Beijing. The gate was due to close in about 10 minutes, when a tour guide and about 200 people suddenly appeared at our check-in desk. The tour guide had no idea what flight(s) these people were to take or what airline they were with other than the fact that they were all going to Beijing. So she dumped the group in our line and disappeared. When the tour group saw that the gate was about to close, they all rushed the check-in desk. Forget about getting in line - that is not SOP in China. It was every man and woman for themselves and we struggled and jostled with these people to get the attention of the check-in staff to get out seat confirmed. The staff were just overwhelmed and walked away and security had to be called to sort out the melee. Needless to say our flight was delayed but we did get aboard that plane and got back to BJ eventually that night! A remarkable memory for me of my time in China.

    • @philip4193
      @philip4193 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@davidneufeld26 My brother actually told me about this when he was in China on business way back in the mid 90's. Said they were all walking along the parking apron to board their aircraft (can't remember now what airport he was at, but I believe it was a regional one up north) as it was parked along with other aircraft well away from the terminal with no jetways (no busses either; said they had to walk a good quarter mile out too, hauling their carry-on luggage), when there was a commotion on the ground alongside another parked aircraft they were passing.
      His minder/translator explained that someone had observed another passenger on that flight tossing a handful of coins up into the engine intake cowling of the jet as he strolled by (the engine wasn't running at the time fortunately) and they had to bring in a ladder in order to get up to the engine and clear it (he described the aircraft as a T-tail with the engines mounted on the fuselage at the rear, so probably an MD-82 by the sounds of it as China Northern were using those at the time I believe). Said they were still at it trying to clear the fan blades of coins as his own aircraft taxied past; my brother told me that he always hated flying in China after observing that, and updated his will frequently.

    • @elanor2123
      @elanor2123 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I've never seen this in China before, but I know that lots of Chinese people buy their airplane tickets at the airport, not beforehand from some airline website. Although there's nothing wrong with doing this, some of them also tend to break in lines, jostle around etc to catch flights minutes before it flies XD
      Also, it also slows down the line considerably, making it anxious for other people in the line who can just watch as the clock ticks by

  • @theresa42213
    @theresa42213 2 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    Happens like that in every country that goes communist. My family came from the old USSR. Where people got thrown into gulags for _thinking_ the wrong thing. ''Quarantine'' centres are the new gulags. Horrible! :(

    • @nicolaim4275
      @nicolaim4275 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      *goes authoritarian. Both China and Russia has always been extremely authoritarian countries and communism just became the aesthetic to move it to the next level. Russia went even further after communism with authoritarian neo-liberalism and now fascism.

  • @thorsday5505
    @thorsday5505 2 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    You can feel this kind of bureaucracy in literally every corner of China. In this multi-class system, every officials will only follow the order from their superior leader, and no one is going to take responsibility for the lower layer, so the value of bottom people is ignored. Thus you can see an emergency patient was refused to be hospitalized simply because she didn't have a negative proof of covid, and she died during the waiting process of the testing result. This and other similar news went viral on the network, and people felt desperate not only in empathy of her, but also we knew this kind of thing is bound to happen again, and any of us could be the victim.

  • @robspunk
    @robspunk 2 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    Hear Matt say "they test crayfish why"? I say to myself "because they are fucking idiots." And they are, same mistakes over and over.

  • @agalah408
    @agalah408 2 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    It is an entrenched cultural problem. Sure there there are rules in China, but they never count if nobody is standing near you to enforce them. People do not carry the rules in their heads. If they happen to get caught, it is not because the person did wrong, it was simply bad luck. The mindset is that any rules do not really apply.

    • @nikkingman
      @nikkingman 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      atheists

    • @BlazRa
      @BlazRa 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      They're literally living under a dictatorship everything is illegal

    • @agalah408
      @agalah408 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@nikkingman Insomniac, dyslectic atheists. They lie awake at night thinking that there really is no dog.

  • @wespuckdog3897
    @wespuckdog3897 2 ปีที่แล้ว +25

    During my trips to China, if there's one thing I've learned, no one knows how to drive there!!!

    • @SoapMovie2300
      @SoapMovie2300 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Probably depends on city but I felt very comfortable driving in Dalian. Normal drivers were very calm and polite. However taxi drivers are the worst of all. So every time you see taxi be on alert.

    • @sirrathersplendid4825
      @sirrathersplendid4825 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      The lads did a vid about driving in China a few years back. Basically everyone is selfish and never thinks of anyone but themselves.

    • @agalah408
      @agalah408 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Its true!. I have thought about this one long and hard. As a Westerner, you get into a car, you KNOW you are in a car and be have accordingly. You leave room for stopping distances, drive differently for different road and weather conditions. Chinese drive cars like they put on a jacket and go outside. They behave in a car exactly as they would behave when walking and pushing through a crowd as a person. When a gap opens in front of them, they move into it. It makes for really dangerous, inconsiderate and frankly stupid driving.

    • @BlazRa
      @BlazRa 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@agalah408 the hilarious thing is some people out their claim that Asians are more intelligent I don't see any evidence

  • @MrAB-fo7zk
    @MrAB-fo7zk 2 ปีที่แล้ว +85

    Love you guys ❤ ... I look forward to every Friday for the podcast but I sure miss the bike videos! Can't wait until you guys can do a tour of India, Japan, etc.

    • @garyoz1821
      @garyoz1821 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      They should do Cambodia. Visa on arrival was just reinstated.

  • @sebastiendumais4246
    @sebastiendumais4246 2 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    The beatings with continue until morale improves 😩

  • @samuelsummers8806
    @samuelsummers8806 2 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    Guys, to add an additional layer to this, the party is terrified that it has lost the Mandate of Heaven IMO.

  • @Doggieman1111
    @Doggieman1111 2 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    Nice to see a channel that understands the big picture in China. The system is the problem. Always has been, always will be.

    • @saint_matthias
      @saint_matthias 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      People are the bigger problem than the government

  • @olivegrove2615
    @olivegrove2615 2 ปีที่แล้ว +111

    The covid seafood thing first started as an attack on Australia (trade war) also years ago there was a hepatitis outbreak in Adelaide Australia and it was traced back to a factory in China and the Chinese authorities stated that the worker who had hepatitis was removed from the processing/packaging of the frozen fruit was removed from having contact with food processing. China certainly learned a lot from that situation and is using it to deflect covid responsibilities.

    • @robspunk
      @robspunk 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      What I wonder is, there's already been a caronavirus pandemic in China. They did try cover that up but they didn't say it came from elsewhere.

    • @johnc2438
      @johnc2438 2 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      @@robspunk They blamed Italy, the U.S. Army, travelers, meat from other countries... They sure did say it came from elsewhere!

    • @tomrogers4667
      @tomrogers4667 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Hey the us is dealing with kids ages 5 to 13 with hep c in most of the states but they dont know where it came from but they also just released a covid vax for kids. 🤔

    • @OrangeFluffyCat
      @OrangeFluffyCat 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@tomrogers4667 the majority of hepatitis cases are kids under 5, so there is no logical connection to the covid vaccination.

    • @kellysouter4381
      @kellysouter4381 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      We have in Australia hepatitis 3 I think it is, back again. Children have died. I haven't heard from where did it come.

  • @dougyoung2177
    @dougyoung2177 2 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    Glad you guys are safe.

  • @AsbestosMuffins
    @AsbestosMuffins 2 ปีที่แล้ว +33

    Something you've touched on before is how china has downplayed quote western medicine end quote to promote chinese medicine, but do you think this lack of common medical knowledge has helped create this situation where nobody seems to know how viruses work or are people just doing insane stuff like swabbing everything because they have to be seen doing anything

    • @jeffreyschnedar8020
      @jeffreyschnedar8020 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Been awhile since I lived in China but I was always amazed at traffic laws. I knew they had them but I had no idea what they were since whenever I was in a can they would slow down from 50 to 35 and honk when they approached an intersection. If no one honked back they sped up in the intersection. From the looks of this video they haven’t really improved much despite the addition of way more traffic.

    • @CharlesFreck
      @CharlesFreck 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      I mean, in the West, they teach you how viruses work in school, and yet no one seemed to remember how viruses work when COVID came around. The best example is everyone has forgotten what viral load is, or how natural immunity works (I know people who have gotten booster shots the week after recovering from COVID). So I don't think it's a Chinese thing that people lack common medical knowledge. World wide, very few people understand basic medical knowledge, including people in medical professions. The random swabbing is just a case of trying to deflect the blame away from the obvious source, the Wuhan biolab, which is more or less confirmed as the origin point.

  • @pq7185
    @pq7185 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    I saw that type of traffic jam in a Tier 1 city with a fire truck sounding its siren. I also only saw 2 birds once I got close to the great wall

  • @youthinasia4103
    @youthinasia4103 2 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    Hey y’all iv been a fan for a minute now n I’m always looking forward to your new info so anytime I see you uploaded I always drop what I’m doing n get into it. Tuning in from Kansas yall! Take care n continue making progress!

  • @Uncleskele
    @Uncleskele 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I love you guys. You really remind me of my buddy and I. We lived in China from 2010 - 2020 and we literally talk about the same stuff you guys do all the time.

  • @NoSirNotTodayOrTomorrow
    @NoSirNotTodayOrTomorrow 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    This incompetency is what sets it apart from other countries, I would actually be worried if they were competent.

  • @gazhel
    @gazhel 2 ปีที่แล้ว +30

    Great to see sponsors supporting your channel. It's hard to find good sponsors for content that upsets Chinese ultra nationalists

  • @Venzo-Gaming
    @Venzo-Gaming 2 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    For me it's like back in the day where Mao sad 'kill all these damn birds - they eat ur wheat' but instead of someone questioning it, 36 million people died because of starvation.. These birds keept the Grasshopper who make the wheat unusable away.. But to safe the face we do everything 👍 good idea

    • @Venzo-Gaming
      @Venzo-Gaming 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @Moonland Almond bit long but it's 100% true.. The sad thing is - everyone knows it but no one says something. It's so sad that US and everyone else is just saying 'stop it China' and are not doing something aktiv against it :/
      I really hope Taiwan will stay independent - Hongkong is sadly lost and if we don't act quickly China will rule the hole world 🙄

  • @will2Collett
    @will2Collett ปีที่แล้ว +1

    One Nation, One Party, One Leader ONE "BIG" DISASTER!!!

  • @tripinout21
    @tripinout21 2 ปีที่แล้ว +27

    You dont need it to work when you control the media and can just say it is working.
    Thank you for your content.

  • @Travestyalpha
    @Travestyalpha 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    The Great Leap Forward analogy is so accurate.

    • @zyansheep
      @zyansheep 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      *Great Leap Backward

  • @BernardB2000
    @BernardB2000 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    They're nuts in China with their driving behaviour. When I was there you could buy stretch fabric licence plate covers, usually in camouflage for some reason, to blank out your plate, go figure. Or they'd partially cover them with old DVD discs. The most scared I've ever been on a road in my whole life was an 8 hour freeway journey (normally about 2-3 hours I think) from Huizhou to Shantou for the Tomb Sweeping holiday with a Chinese family. F**K! The emergency lane would be used as a traffic lane. And those who have black SUVs with blacked out windows speeding and driving how they want. Maybe they are CCP officials or not and just bluffing: part of the giving themselves face thing and others being afraid to stop them. Everyone belting along, then diving into gaps between cars, then the traffic jams up and stops. Then rinse and repeat. And then a few days later back again with the same traffic. One can go on and on about Chinese drivers.

  • @greekperspective2076
    @greekperspective2076 2 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    I always laugh when everyone claims how superior China is

    • @ddnn974
      @ddnn974 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Many South East Asians believe so

  • @Kemet3.0
    @Kemet3.0 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Wow, it's amazing that you guys didn’t die driving through this traffic.
    The way that some Chinese drivers are.

  • @ojonasar
    @ojonasar 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    13:08 - it’s a similar situation with Russia and NK for that matter - it’s leadership is stuck in the past. Some Russians complained that they didn’t like the democracy they went through after the USSR collapsed - Russia never had democracy, it was still the same bunch of cronies running the country.

  • @cs40660
    @cs40660 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    i remember originally seeing the steel shut in doors way back in 2020 and talkies were vehemently trying to debunk it. Reminds me of Dishonered.

  • @aepfelchen28
    @aepfelchen28 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Thank you..great show..nobody does it better..

  • @bhoepa5550
    @bhoepa5550 2 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    CCP spraying every surface with disinfect solution or maybe it could be plain water is a thing of beauty. Someone should come up with a parody Chinese spray music video.

  • @Elimino_P
    @Elimino_P 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    I subbed to this channel back in the day because you guys were riding around. Now that you're out of China, when is ADVUSA?

    • @ape557
      @ape557 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Would you like a sort of adv style Ireland? Kinda thinking about doing an 'Episode'.

    • @Elimino_P
      @Elimino_P 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@ape557 I'd watch at least one. Probably more if they're even a little decent. Hit me up if you decide to do it.

  • @cedricdrake6855
    @cedricdrake6855 2 ปีที่แล้ว +36

    I've lived in China for ten years. I miss it. My family and friends...all my friends are there in China. I appreciate your content. I miss my China.

    • @generalmartok3990
      @generalmartok3990 2 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      In the same boat. I built all of the strongest relationships of my adult life in China. Returned home for vacation at the end of 2019, then Covid happened and I never returned. I miss my life and all of my friends, but I also feel lucky. That old life is gone, and will never be the same after this.

    • @ape557
      @ape557 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Wait wait, are you clam man? 🤗

    • @Coxman
      @Coxman 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      You should go back.

    • @The_ZeroLine
      @The_ZeroLine 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Yeah. You should go back right now.

    • @cedricdrake6855
      @cedricdrake6855 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      I'll wait just a little bit more time@@The_ZeroLine

  • @BenRogersWPG
    @BenRogersWPG 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Want to know something strange.
    I got a tiktok ad midroll on this video.

  • @wb5plj
    @wb5plj 2 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    don't forget the culture that allows individuals to do this. that is a large part. most people in some other cultures even if told to wrap electric fence around someone would not do it. though it is unfortunately failing in many western countries. I just wanted to point out it is not just the structure that is in place but also the years of warped (admittedly from my perspective) culture.

  • @shaundurant7415
    @shaundurant7415 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    People have to go through situations like this sometimes to understand what they want and don't want. After this the Chinese people will never be the same. They may come to understand why government shouldn't be all powerful.

  • @acronus
    @acronus 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I can't stop thinking,
    "Did I ever tell you what the definition of insanity is?"

  • @666cemetaryslut
    @666cemetaryslut 2 ปีที่แล้ว +30

    You guys are brave to be riding through traffic like that. I've seen too many videos of riders getting smooshed by big trucks in countries like that.

    • @K1LLERSQU1D
      @K1LLERSQU1D 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Best gore comes to mind

    • @kietdo4379
      @kietdo4379 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@K1LLERSQU1D And the best part is they always finish a job =))

    • @philipsmi-lenguyen8155
      @philipsmi-lenguyen8155 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Jus at all times gotta be very wary of ur surroundings, even here in Australia alot of dum drivers n I avoid crashes everyday by getting outta the way of em otherwise I would've crashed or died ages ago.

    • @666cemetaryslut
      @666cemetaryslut 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@K1LLERSQU1D Reddit had a good gore subreddit but it was taken down

  • @richarddevaottien7724
    @richarddevaottien7724 2 ปีที่แล้ว +25

    Glad I never wasted a day of my life living in China

    • @gavincurtis
      @gavincurtis 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      They know that. That is why they are coming to you instead.

    • @Ebani
      @Ebani 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Did someone actually thought writing this would show anything other than clear brainwashing? The mental state someone needs to write such a thing is well beyond me.

    • @r2dad282
      @r2dad282 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Too bad--China circa 2005-2015 was a great place to visit.

    • @TheFivegoodemperors
      @TheFivegoodemperors 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@r2dad282 many were pretty hopeful of the PRC before Xi Dada.

    • @gavincurtis
      @gavincurtis 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@r2dad282 Communism destroys... starts out fast and "wonderful" before crashing hard.
      Keeps happening in history with massive loss of life. Nobody seems to learn Communism is always the way dictators try to conquer the world with bloody failure....

  • @ESPLTD322
    @ESPLTD322 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    All these videos, regardless of what they’re about, really make me appreciate Alabama.

    • @rejvaik00
      @rejvaik00 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      _Sweet home Alabama_
      _Where the skies are so blue_
      _Sweet home Alabama_
      _Lord I'm coming home to you_

  • @rifqiaji5031
    @rifqiaji5031 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Who said it failed it actually works. The purpose of this program is to ensure the people to be more obedient to the CCP and fear her. In that context it really works

  • @headoverheels88
    @headoverheels88 2 ปีที่แล้ว +36

    Honestly, I just assumed they were forcing people to get sick to force herd immunity. Kind of like in the 90s parents would take their kids to "chickenpox" parties to build their immunity.

    • @Zhengrui0
      @Zhengrui0 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Oh, right the 90s...yeah, there haven't been antivaxers over the past decade doing this, of course not!

    • @dula7882
      @dula7882 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Should that be easier by letting people going out, get around, and meeting each other than isolating them?

    • @kabardino1337
      @kabardino1337 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      That was what Brazilian president believed was right to do

    • @jellybr3ak
      @jellybr3ak 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@kabardino1337 And 600k deaths? Lol nope, the best way is having a lockdown, restrict the border, get everybody vaxxed and then open up. That was what my country did, tbf, we stumbled a bit during the vaxx process but now everything is back to the "before time", with less tourists, of course.

    • @theasianjaywalker4455
      @theasianjaywalker4455 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Yes, they did this in Wuhan City if you remember the massive pool parties and packed concerts for everyone around 25 and under. Massive herd immunity ensues.

  • @joeteejoetee
    @joeteejoetee 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Riding a motorcycle is the best plan for travel thru a disaster - it's a great lesson for all.

  • @skiingfast1
    @skiingfast1 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Never Give up Never Surrender. Full Speed Ahead!

  • @JamesLaserpimpWalsh
    @JamesLaserpimpWalsh 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Cheers for the vid boys. Great actual proper job journalism. Well done. Love your insights man.

  • @jeanvalero1597
    @jeanvalero1597 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Been a while since I watched you but it's good to be back watching your videos

  • @MountSilky252
    @MountSilky252 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    What makes the mass testing route even worse is the threat that if you don't attend, the local government will could turn your health code red and register you as a false positive, which affects your neighbors as well. Also, some communities will bar your entry if you didn't have a test in the past 48 hours.
    It's not bad where I am, and things tend to be a bit more lax for foreigners, but the Chinese people have it rough.

    • @mateor7302
      @mateor7302 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      At first I thought you were talking about California

    • @CharlesFreck
      @CharlesFreck 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@mateor7302 It's often hard to tell the difference between stories about China, the Soviet Union, and present day California.

  • @Artorius19631
    @Artorius19631 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Many years ago I saw a political cartoon depicting two scenarios of people at a queue. In the left panel it showed people in the US lined neatly and patiently waiting. In the right panel it showed people from China all bunched up at the counter wanting service at the same time.

  • @LynnsYouTube
    @LynnsYouTube 2 ปีที่แล้ว +27

    This is so sad! Are there any numbers leaking out of people dying of starvation and other things because of the lockdowns?

    • @trinityiris
      @trinityiris 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      no official numbers yet but residents say people are dying in troves. elderly folks especially

    • @ojonasar
      @ojonasar 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      And of course the very best condition you would want to be when fighting off an infection is to be starving - you couldn’t make it up - nor would you want to.

    • @Venzo-Gaming
      @Venzo-Gaming 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Leaking info in China 😅😅 in witch century did you live - do xou really think they woudl say 'dead by covid' or let alone 'dead by starvation' rigth now when everything is so sensitive

    • @LynnsYouTube
      @LynnsYouTube 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@trinityiris It's heartbreaking!! I can't imagine. Just seeing the videos of people screaming on their balconies is painful to watch. I can't imagine what they are going through. It doesn't make sense that at the same time they are destroying their population they are making advances on Taiwan. It sounds like it's all a power play by certain government officials to stay in power.

    • @trinityiris
      @trinityiris 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@LynnsTH-cam they are sadly using the pandemic as a way to begin social/population genocide in China. they need a way to mask their food shortage and this is it. it is so sickening and sad. if it were about keeping people safe from the virus, they would've began these harsh practices 2 years ago. it isn't being talk about enough and even if we do get people to bring attention to it, China will be China. i feel so bad for them, they are trapped in the system there now. it will likely be years before they start letting people leave

  • @ALiangYen
    @ALiangYen 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I have seen that Chinese internet even removed the covid-related video from North Korea, because North Korea told their people to be clame if they got covid, just drink enough water and have a good rest and it would recover in a week.

    • @albertmagician8613
      @albertmagician8613 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @liang With the omicron variant and lack of obesity, that is not far from the truth.

    • @ALiangYen
      @ALiangYen 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@albertmagician8613 seems now the CCP becomes more conservative than North Korea when it comes to covid.

  • @jcngokai-76
    @jcngokai-76 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    When I went to China back in 2003, the traffic was utterly insane and RULES BE DAMNED!!!!

  • @skrupellosernarr825
    @skrupellosernarr825 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I dig the hone advertisement. A very important topic. Stay active guys💪

  • @whyguomoore5158
    @whyguomoore5158 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    If you ever want to see a group of pigeons trying to solve a 100 sided Rubix cube - Come to Shanghai.

  • @fukukyun78
    @fukukyun78 2 ปีที่แล้ว +27

    Good on the WHO for finally getting a conscience. I mean, let's not forget that they were the ones who originally said "There's no human to human transmission!" but hey, credit where credit is due lol

  • @kaiapparent2653
    @kaiapparent2653 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    love seeing this footage! great video guys. that high five at the end was really nice too 😂

  • @Icanplaylikematt
    @Icanplaylikematt 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Support!

  • @gju47f
    @gju47f 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Brilliant points extremely well presented ❤️❤️❤️

  • @clivebaxter6354
    @clivebaxter6354 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Zero CCP is needed

  • @Nick-lm5lz
    @Nick-lm5lz 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Had great fun in China. Miss it very much. Also very concerned bout my friends in Shanghai

  • @mbak7801
    @mbak7801 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The Chinese police could make a fortune here. Use motorbikes to go up the line of stationary vehicles on the wrong side of the road and slap on a $100 fine on each of them. Tell the drivers that they would come back in 30mins and put on an additional fine if they were still there. Keep doing it. When they get to the top of the queue fine the car there with $1000 and tell them their details will be given to all the drivers behind them and if they want to come after them for their fines then it is their problem not the police. In other words scare them into pushing their car into a ditch. Then rinse and repeat. Very profitable. Eventually the drivers will know being stupid is super expensive.

  • @libraryofpangea7018
    @libraryofpangea7018 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    It's like watching a tall man panic drown in a shallow pool of water.

  • @FormosaMike
    @FormosaMike 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Hi from Taiwan! Thanks as always for your awesome insight and cool opinions!

  • @Stoneitful
    @Stoneitful 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    The show is not over yet

  • @mrniceguy7168
    @mrniceguy7168 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Swabbing crayfish?! This is like all the crazy stories of the Mao era happening in our time

  • @lordeisschrank
    @lordeisschrank 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    ha! we had to do the same thing... quarantine and get down to the lobby to gather for testing twice a day. But this was 2020 and in Japan.

  • @ShawNshawN
    @ShawNshawN 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Man I type in "China" and can't find any video by you guys. What a load of crap youtube. Fix this! That's outrageous. You guys ARE the experts on China.

  • @jonson856
    @jonson856 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    You can call it the Great Backleap forward

  • @thebranch3874
    @thebranch3874 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Thank you guys for the great work

  • @domdimensions9219
    @domdimensions9219 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Hey, I'm really curious when you guys will go out on the bikes again on your channel?

  • @teebosaurusyou
    @teebosaurusyou 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    The disinfection guys with the flamethrowers are impressively crazy.

  • @ethanos5442
    @ethanos5442 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Around 27 378 000 people are employed in factories in the U.S.

  • @lightspeed5098
    @lightspeed5098 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thanks for the update

  • @tjdjultima
    @tjdjultima 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Here faster than a metal door can be welded shut!

  • @TheSimplyRich
    @TheSimplyRich 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    We have been in lockdown in a small town in Zhejiang province for 3 weeks now.

  • @Littlegoatpaws
    @Littlegoatpaws 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    The Virgin Automobile Owner: "I'm trapped in a bottleneck and I'm just making it worse by cramming the other lane and I still can't move!"
    The Chad Bike Rider: "Weave weave vroom vroom!"

  • @realityhittingme
    @realityhittingme 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    My mother in law is going to try to my house in the US from China on Wednesday. She has to go through Shanghai so I hope it all works out...

    • @ianmoone316
      @ianmoone316 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Lol! are you sure?

    • @realityhittingme
      @realityhittingme 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@ianmoone316 not very funny but ok

    • @r2dad282
      @r2dad282 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      I heard Shanghai airport is locked down, but maybe that doesn't include connecting flights where people don't leave the terminal? Good luck!

    • @Lambyyy
      @Lambyyy 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@r2dad282 It was only locked down for domestic flights, I'm not sure if that has been lifted yet. The biggest challenge is having a good enough reason to leave, family matters are not usually sufficient since the policy change last Thursday.

  • @jharv58
    @jharv58 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Gotta love that Asian counterflow traffic. Was big in the Philippines a few years back.

  • @andyfarmer1194
    @andyfarmer1194 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thanks guys
    Great format 👍

  • @kevinn2216
    @kevinn2216 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    I'm glad you've got a new sponsor! Well as for me, I'm starting to lose hair so I'm guessing my problem is not low testosterone 🤣

    • @clinton4161
      @clinton4161 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Actually low testosterone can also lead to hair loss. It's about having not too much or too little.

    • @edgregory1
      @edgregory1 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@clinton4161 Then why do women have hair?

    • @zerohero5753
      @zerohero5753 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@edgregory1 Why do women never bald too?

  • @Alohavirgo
    @Alohavirgo 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Yes Honehealth!

  • @newperve
    @newperve 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    "This is a fully functioning society"
    Is it though?

  • @STOK5OH
    @STOK5OH 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Low T commercial, fairly appropriate considering the subject matter at hand. 🤣

  • @transmaster
    @transmaster 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I will say it again you 2 have taught me the truth about China. 👍

  • @six2make4
    @six2make4 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I think we have lived a normal life in Denmark for like a year now and so far we are not dead... Unless I'm actually ghost writing to you from beyond the grave, in which case, go get that ghostbuster money friend, I'll happily pose for spooky photos and keep writing from beyond the grave.

  • @blackjack8957
    @blackjack8957 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thomas Gabriel: Occupy all lanes.

  • @lakecityransom
    @lakecityransom 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    This is really disturbing. Welded into your apartment. Can you imagine?

  • @4057hofft
    @4057hofft 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    It looks like you have to park away from the fuel pumps and carry a little bit of gas to the bike. Is that right?

  • @garybrown8574
    @garybrown8574 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thanks!

  • @Queltamas
    @Queltamas 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Even in India the traffic flows, not necessarily in the right direction, but it flows.

  • @Fr.VeniceLAI
    @Fr.VeniceLAI 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Exactly, in China, the Top Leader does not make mistake, everyone else besides him, can make mistake. The Leader is infallible & cannot be challenged.

  • @imaslob6168
    @imaslob6168 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I’m sure they cook their noodles with radiator water in a traffic jam!!!😂🤣😂🤣

  • @waylandchin
    @waylandchin 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Traffic there is collective selfishness.

  • @feeterican
    @feeterican 2 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    Lack of team work and comradery. The ME FIRST mentality seams like a huge dysfunctional part in this. And the whole save face shit sucks. If their wrong and you know it, then you show it. Screw that, call them out and remind them they have alzheimer's.

    • @Corkoth55
      @Corkoth55 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      which is weird too because aren't they taught that the collective comes first? not the individual?

    • @deanchur
      @deanchur 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Corkoth55 Communism seems to incentivise individualism more than Capitalism (where you have to provide value for others to get it for yourself, corruption and cronyism notwithstanding).
      In a lot of books on life during the USSR and Mao-era China it's not uncommon to read stories of neighbours ratting each other out to get extra rations, even if it meant the other person goes to a prison for 10 years.

    • @zerohero5753
      @zerohero5753 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@deanchur Yet you v0te for gl0bal c0mmie B1den

    • @MR..181
      @MR..181 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Rumor xi has brain aneurysm..i grew an abdominal aneurysm bypass that clotted the aorta closed and used a dozen arteries as a bypass system with some arteries receiving backwards flows..this day tho, i felt like hell, but surgury to repair the same thing in original "system" killed my mother..?

  • @Eastmarch2
    @Eastmarch2 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    the party is NEVER wrong

  • @dallasreid5776
    @dallasreid5776 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Same as all third world countries. Nothing to see here (unless you do not think China is a Third World country).

    • @TheFivegoodemperors
      @TheFivegoodemperors 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yes but no other third world country constructed 50 ghost cities, made HSR go through a desert or completely destroyed their economy with dynamic zero; trying to prove they aren’t a third-world country.

  • @paulfri1569
    @paulfri1569 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Poetic justice perhaps?