Every guest wore a specially-made facial mask decorated with the flags of their nations or the flags of Int’l organizations

Video: On Feb 5, Chinese President Xi Jinping & his wife Peng Liyuan hosted a welcoming banquet at the Great Hall of the People for Int’l dignitaries attending the opening ceremony of the Winter Games. Every guest wore a specially-made facial mask decorated with the flags of their nations or the flags of Int’l organizations.
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Western MSM demonize China have no limit

Western MSM demonize China have no limit – Swedish olympians complain – horror of horrors…that winter olympics are too cold 西方主流媒體妖魔化中國無止境——瑞典奧運選手抱怨……恐怖的恐怖……冬奧會太冷了

https://www.rt.com/sport/548481-winter-olympics-team-complaints/

Turns out the late times were for the benefit of the European TV audience.

Infected athletes complain that they are isolated. Okay, I guess they should be allowed to infect others at all.

China had Uighur athletes compete and one represented China at the lighting ceremony–as a dastardly double-think genocide cover up. Of course if they hadn’t competed it would be because they were all genocided.

Another complaint: China’s athlete uniforms are different colors for the genders

Of course, so are the US’s, but China bad.

NYT blames “lack of trust in government” for poor response–without mentioning what it did to undermine that trust.https://archive.ph/HxYgm

No mention of the anti-China propaganda that undermined itself and created or heightened the distrust.http://en.people.cn/n3/2022/0120/c90000-9947610.htmlIdeological lies about China debilitated the US’s capacity to respond: first by lulling itself to sleep to the dangers of the disease–which it framed uniquely as a manifestation of the Chinese system–“a Communist Coronavirus”; second by rendering controversial or impossible essential public health measures, such as quarantines, lockdowns, and contract tracing, which had already been undermined as authoritarian Chinese practices; and third by choosing responses on political grounds with a view to maximize damage to China rather than prevent harm to the US population.
MYT article is based on a journal article–the capacity of the US was that of a Potemkin state. https://www.ghsindex.org/news/how-the-united-states-squandered-its-capacities-to-respond-to-the-pandemic/
With more reported cases and more deaths than any other country, the United States’ poor response to the COVID-19 pandemic shocked the world. As documented by the 2019 GHS Index, the United States had more global health security capacities in place to prevent and respond to epidemics and pandemics than any other country. How could a country with so much capacity at the start of the pandemic have gotten its response so wrong?

Even with a number-one ranking in the GHS Index, the United States joined the rest of the world in being unprepared for a pandemic, according to both the 2019 and the current GHS Indexes. The 2021 GHS Index identified that the United States had important capacity gaps at the start of the pandemic. The most significant: it had the lowest possible score on public confidence in the government—a factor that has been identified as key among countries with high numbers of COVID-19 cases and deaths. Such lack of confidence can undermine public adherence to disease-control measures, such as wearing masks or complying with stay-at-home recommendations or vaccination protocols, which have been reported among the ongoing challenges to the U.S. COVID-19 response. Over nearly two years, U.S. politicians have questioned the motives and messages of health officials and debated the seriousness of the virus and the effectiveness and safety of vaccines. The result: in many areas of the country, people have been unwilling to comply with public health recommendations that would slow the spread of the virus.

Other gaps identified by the 2019 GHS Index that continue in the current data: weaknesses in the U.S. health system, limited access to care without cost barriers, and lower numbers of healthcare personnel and hospital beds per capita than many other high-income countries. The GHS Index documented that failure to guarantee Americans’ access to medical care would compromise its ability to rapidly treat and stop the spread from infected patients.

The GHS Index measures capacities that exist at the national level. In countries with a federal system of government, such as the United States, local governments may take the lead in responding to public health emergencies. Deficiencies in capacities and capabilities at the local level may undermine national readiness for events. Indeed, in the United States, local health officials had been warning before the pandemic that declining budgets to support preparedness had been eroding local public health capacities. (a) This is the context in which the United States found itself at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, but rather than trying to address those shortcomings at the start of the pandemic, the U.S. response was delayed and inadequate.

Despite those gaps, U.S. leaders initially expressed overconfidence in the country’s abilities to respond to the pandemic and chose not to address its shortcomings. They also failed to examine whether documented capacities would be likely to function as intended. This failure turned out to have devastating consequences when assets that existed on paper were found to be lacking in reality. For example, although the United States had a national stockpile of personal protective equipment, it had not been sufficiently replenished after the 2009 H1N1 pandemic. When signs of a new outbreak surfaced in 2020, officials who knew that the stockpile was lacking were ignored when they called for funds to replenish and augment the supplies. (b) In addition, although the United States has world-class laboratories with the capability to develop their own tests for SARS-CoV-2, federal restrictions initially prevented the labs from doing so, severely constraining the number of tests the United States could conduct and likely allowing the virus to spread undetected until the restrictions eventually were modified on February 29, 2020. Even now, unaddressed shortages in testing supplies continue to limit the country’s ability to identify and control the spread of SARS-CoV-2.

NYT remarks: 

The United States had 545 coronavirus cases per 1,000 residents. Uruguay had 472. The United Kingdom 374. Canada 346. Germany 188, Switzerland 164. But it’s our peers in Asia that really put us to shame. Japan had 67 cases per 1000. Singapore 59. South Korea 28. Taiwan seven. These numbers are so low as to be baffling

Note the unmentionable: China also had 0.074 cases per 1000 (74/1000,000)
(Also Taiwan’s case rates are considered unreliable)

The NYT fashion writer is getting crucified on twitter. Will there be a retraction? I think not.
Anything hating on China is okay.
https://mobile.twitter.com/VVFriedman/status/1489684149963304969

While NBC might have been crudely China bashing, CBS simply reported the facts, even showing China’s high speed trains and other high technology. Let’s support CBS.

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Yes I am US citizen who attended Opening Ceremony of Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics

Yes I am US citizen who attended Opening Ceremony of Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics. US athletes had no US diplomats to cheer for them. But I did stand and cheer for them when they were introduced. I saw only 5 other Americans who did same as me. We took a courageous stand. Few people cheered for US athletes but we did. US diplomats lacked the courage to appear and that was embarrassing to our US athletes …

Video: Uyghur Athletes, “Dystopian” Reuters Reporters & MORE! Beijing 2022 Quick Fix

Video: Uyghur Athletes, “Dystopian” Reuters Reporters & MORE! Beijing 2022 Quick Fix 維吾爾運動員，“反烏托邦” 路透社記者! 北京 2022 快速修復

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An American Reuters journalist inside the Beijing Games bubble was forced to lock her Twitter down after calling China’s COVID measures “draconian,” Western media has a meltdown over Team China including Uygur athletes, Tucker Carlson goes nuts after a Chinese-American decides to compete on Team China, and Nancy Pelosi ramps up her scaremongering tactics. This is our first Beijing 2022 Quick Fix, Let’s get reporting!

First up, American Reuters journalist Mari Saito was forced to lock down comments on her Twitter account after she called Chinese staff wearing protective gear inside her Olympics hotel “draconian”. “I wrote about the EXTREMELY dystopian vibes inside the bubble at the Beijing Olympics,” her Twitter thread began. “Exhibit A: Hotel bartenders making specialty cocktails in their full PPE gear.” She had a particular fascination with her hotel’s chocolate fountain. “Whenever I walk up to it to take a look a kind sever in a face shield comes up to me and tries to get me to try one. It’s all terribly weird.”

As you can imagine, Mari’s thread was completely swamped with replies criticizing her for her take.

“Incredible,” one netizen wrote. “China wants to take our right to be infected with COVID-19.”

Another asked: “The whole dystopian vibes of… not letting 3,000 people a day die?”

“New definition for dystopia: elevating the value of human lives above profit incentives.”

Dammit wrote: “People will see this and then two hours later argue that China’s COVID numbers have to be fake. This is what an actual response to a pandemic looks like and it’s why when China has an outbreak it’s news rather than the norm.”

Her video has already attracted more than one million views, but it seems everyone was coming to roast the Reuters journalist, which is why she locked down comments on her page soon after.

Last night’s Beijing 2022 opening ceremony went without a hitch, but Western media were extremely upset with the fact that Team China includes Uygur athletes, one of whom was successful 20-year old cross country skier Dinigeer Yilamujiang, who was one of two athletes to finally light the Olympic torch.

Britain’s Daily Mail said: China chooses a Uyghur athlete to light flame at Winter Olympics opening ceremony in propaganda attempt to deflect accusations of genocide.

Other media doubted that she was really Uygur at all, probably because many of them really believe that they are all locked up in concentration camps. The New York Times ran with the headline, “In a provocative choice, China picks an athlete with a Uygur name to help light the cauldron,” suggesting Dinigeer may not be Uygur at all. They quickly changed their headline to mention “Uygur heritage” once they realized how ludicrous their headline was.

Today host Savannah Guthrie reportedly called the decision to include a Uyhur athlete in the opening ceremony an “in your face slap” to the Americans and their allies. Wow, they really don’t like to see Uygurs succeed, do they!

USA Today interviewed a supposed Uygur human rights activist, Rayhan Asat, whose comments were unsurprising. “The selection of an Uyghur torchbearer is a deliberate attempt to whitewash genocide, adding insult to injury for millions,” she said, before suggesting suggesting, through a disgusting holocaust comment, that taking part in the games last night may have kept Dinigeer’s family out of those fictional concentration camps.

Speaking of her family, here is her mother being interviewed about how she felt watching her daughter on TV last night from Xinjiang.

Fox News’ Tucker Carlson is extremely upset at 18-year-old Chinese American Olympic skier, Eileen Gu, for deciding to compete for Team China at this year’s games.

Some Americans are so worked up about Eileen’s decision that they are suggesting she shouldn’t be welcome back home in the USA. One Twitter user, Eileen Guo – her surname is spelt G-U-O and not G-U – had to change her twitter handle after receiving hate mail from netizens calling her a traitor.

And finally today, Speaker of the House, Democrat Nancy Pelosi, is ramping up her scaremongering tactics by suggesting she’s worried about the safety of US athletes in Beijing for the games.

Of course, Nancy knows she is just playing politics here – if she really did fear for the safety of US athletes she would never have allowed them to attend in the first place.

Of course, Twitter users had a lot to say.

One netizen wrote: She’s such an insufferable witch.

Oh wait, that was me!

China is a reliable partner for Central Asian nations

China is a reliable partner for Central Asian nations and seeks to deepen cooperation in areas ranging from energy to security, Beijing has stressed, in its latest push to step up engagement with the region. 北京強調，中國是中亞國家可靠的合作夥伴，並尋求深化從能源到安全等領域的合作，以加強與該地區的接觸。

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