"Two weeks later, Xi
the lockdown of Hubei province based on his philosophy of
, the same hybrid of health and security policy that inspired the reeducation and “
” of over 1 million Uighur Muslims “
” in Xinjiang. The World Health Organization’s representative in China
that “trying to contain a city of 11 million people is new to science … The lockdown of 11 million people is unprecedented in public health history, so it is certainly not a recommendation the WHO has made.”
The CCP confined
Hubei residents to their homes. At the time, human rights observers expressed
. As one expert
The New York Times, “the shutdown would almost certainly lead to human rights violations and would be patently unconstitutional in the United States.”
Regardless, on Jan. 29, WHO Director Tedros Adhanom
he was “very impressed and encouraged by the president [Xi Jinping]’s detailed knowledge of the outbreak” and the next day
China for “setting a new standard for outbreak response.” Yet only six days in, the lockdown—“unprecedented in public health history”—had produced no results, so Tedros was praising human rights abuses with nothing to show for them."