Michael Senger on Xi Jinping's lockdowns

Mass lockdowns of entire countries as a technique for fighting disease sprung into the world’s consciousness on the order of Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), who fomented a global propaganda offensive targeting Western governments and media.  Within weeks, the WHO, an organization that once devoted itself to fighting disease and which has sadly become a tool of Chinese foreign policy, promulgated lockdowns into global policy through a series of press conferences that showed a complete absence of analysis or logic. 

The world has been fighting a virus from China with a public health policy from China that transforms the world into China.  But if the national security community has noticed this bizarre development, they haven’t said so.  Instead, their preoccupation has remained largely unchanged since February 2020.

~ Michael P. Senger, "The Masked Ball of Cowardice," Tablet Magazine, August 21, 2021