For the past three years under the cloak of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) virus, official pandemic prevention staff dressed in white protection gear have been a common sight across China. Chinese have given them the nickname, “big whites.”
The big whites—who some refer to as “White Guards” to mark the end of the CCP’s rule, with white in Chinese culture being associated with death, in contrast to the “Red Guards” who secured the CCP’s early rule through political campaigns during the Cultural Revolution—are mostly volunteers but also officers following the central government’s orders to take charge of local pandemic prevention and control. They have been using coercive measures, such as removing people from their homes to take them to quarantine field hospitals (even those who are not yet infected), and breaking into people’s homes to conduct viral disinfection.
