Control Your Soul's Desire For Freedom

[Me.]

is the message the citizens of Shanghai and other parts of China are being bombarded with.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

1. China has really been cracking down of free speech

[Hortensis]

2. Culture difference, all right. Australia's call to responsibility is

"Help Stop the Spread and Stay Healthy."

Of course, China's dark history of totalitarian leaders making decisions that sacrifice millions, including to starvation, likely adds special nuance to people not allowed to leave their apartments to find food.

[Me.]

3. It's Like THey Are Unwittingly Saying THe Quiet Part Out Loud

THe problem with communism is the desire for freedom.

[Hortensis]

4. Yes. Socialized systems at best require limitation of some freedoms,

even sometimes elimination, and communism's the most extreme (worst?) form of socialism.

Communist China's history includes the deaths of hundreds of millions who didn't even have the right to save themselves, which must make today's ratcheting down on freedoms particularly alarming to older people who lived through those dreadful times.

[Me.]

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