China Going Covid Fishing! By James Reed

When you have locked down entire cities, welded people into factories and thrown away the keys, what does a tyrannical totalitarian communist regime do to top that? Why, you begin projecting the Covid insanity onto the rest of the animal kingdom, and start testing fish!  Why? No-one really knows but it sounded like a good idea at the time. Next, once all marine life is locked down, the communists will move to test plants, then inanimate objects, such as rocks, oil, and desert sands. It makes as much nonsense as anything else in the modern Covid theatre of the absurd.

https://www.amazon.com/Theatre-Absurd-Martin-Esslin/dp/1400075238

https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/chinese-city-testing-fish-covid

https://www.vice.com/en/article/wxnj3m/chinese-city-tests-fish-for-covid

“Mass testing is a hallmark of China’s stringent zero-COVID policy, which seeks to completely eradicate the virus. As the Chinese government’s paranoia reaches new heights, a Chinese city has gone further and extended the measure to fishermen—and their catch. 

To contain an emerging coronavirus outbreak, the coastal city of Xiamen has begun imposing daily nucleic tests on fishermen and the fish, crabs, and prawns they haul in. 

“During operations, fishermen must undergo one test every day. When fishermen and their catch reach the shore, both ‘humans and goods’ have to be tested,” read an official notice issued late last month. 

Footage of health workers sticking cotton swabs into the mouths of fish and swabbing crustaceans went viral online on Wednesday, as fishing recently resumed after a summer moratorium. It drew ridicule from Chinese social media users as yet another example of China’s questionable COVID control policies. 

“Do they isolate the fish if it tests positive?” a user on China’s Twitter-like Weibo commented. 

Adrian Esterman, an epidemiologist from the University of South Australia, described the measure as “unnecessary.” 

“Fish basically cannot carry coronavirus. Firstly, they don’t have the receptors that coronaviruses latch on to. Secondly, the body temperature of fish is not suitable for the viruses to survive,” Esterman told VICE World News. “The chance of a fish being infected with coronavirus is pretty much zero.”

While the virus could potentially survive on the surfaces of frozen fish, as a previous case in Hong Kong showed last year, the risk of getting infected from contaminated surfaces is very low. Studies have found that less than 5 in 10,000 are infected through fomites—objects and surfaces that may carry the virus.”

Don’t tell those inconvenient scientific facts to the ever-fanatic CCP though!