In this Monday, Feb. 20, 2017 photo released by Xinhua News Agency, vehicles run on the snow-covered road in Urumqi, capital of northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. BEIJING -- When police arrested the middle-aged Uighur woman at the height of China's coronavirus outbreak, she was crammed into a cell with dozens of other women in a detention centre.
The latest grueling lockdown, now in its 45th day, comes in response to 826 cases reported in Xinjiang since mid-July, China's largest caseload since the initial outbreak. But the Xinjiang lockdown is especially striking because of its severity, and because there hasn't been a single new case of local transmission in over a week.
After being detained for over a month, the Uighur woman was released and locked into her home. Conditions are now better, she told the AP, but she is still under lockdown, despite regular tests showing she is free of the virus. Xinjiang authorities can carry out the harsh measures, experts say, because of its lavishly funded security apparatus, which by some estimates deploys the most police per capita of anywhere on the planet.
"Why are you forcing us to drink medicine when we're not sick!" she asked in a Aug. 18 post that was swiftly deleted.
"I've been in this room for so long, I don't remember how long. I just want to forget," he wrote again, days later. "I'm writing out my feelings to reassure myself I still exist. I fear I'll be forgotten by the world."He, too, is being forced to take Chinese traditional medicine, he said, including liquid from the same unmarked white bottles as the Uighur woman. He is also forced to take Lianhua Qingwen, a herbal remedy seized regularly by U.S.
But the new measures in Xinjiang forcing some residents to take the medicine is unprecedented, experts say. The government says that the participation rate in traditional Chinese medicine treatment in the region has "reached 100%", according to a state media report. When asked about resident complaints that they were being forced to take Chinese medicine, one local official said it was being done "according to expert opinion.
I’m sure Dr Fauci will be endorsing this policy soon enough.
Forced medication is a thing in Canada too.
NEVER TRUST CHINESE AND DEMOCRATS. Ban all faulty/defective products from China and send all Chinese home. Keep Chinese virus in China.
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