My guess is wait until the virus mutates into endemic status or when scientists come up with a superior vaccine.
My guess is former is more likely than latter but no one knows how long it'll take before the virus mutates itself so it will become harmless. There's always another variant that could threaten us all.
“So what is their end game?”
China has remained very closed during the last couple of thousands years and I think wishes to remain that way if possible. But it is my opinion that they are finding rapidly that survival as a country or race is not possible without working within the human race system and sharing nature along with it. Of course y9ou could ask 100 people to share their thoughts on this and get 98 different answers. I figure 2 could share an answer by luck.
They are closing in on not being able to feed themselves at all and any real natural forces like more floods or high winds, among a few others, are going to place them in a real problem for their own stability and future.
In the middle part of the Trump administration Trump cost them a lot of money through trade barriers and product control. In the first three months of 2018 it was around $38M just from trade embargoes. It was in June that year that China threatened a $50M trade war figure. And, of course both our and their differences failed when Biden took over in 2020 and gave China the good silver and mom’s bone china for free. And that’s where we are at this point in straight up trade with Biden shaking off China’s deficit to us that was holding them in check for as far as we could guess.
But the Trump efforts did trigger one thing that even surprised the world...the creation and release of the covid 19 sars virus. I don’t think anyone would have figured that China would be so deplorable.
You mentioned about the virus mutating itself into a harmless state. Whose to say China won’t make something else up and release it, also? They got away with it once.
And I can make you two promises from my history with uncle Sugar, (NBC) deadly viruses are still out there and rear their ugly heads on occasion like bubonic plague that started in the 1300’s and still has yearly outbreaks today...and there is not a deadly virus that is not in a number of test tube all over the world. All ready to be unleashed or sold for the best price and there has never been a successful vaccine for any virus of these types in history. And there are those that science says were wipe out by vaccines. Here’s the list:
Chickenpox (Varicella) - caught every year
Diphtheria - the last outbreak was in Yeman in April 2020
Flu (Influenza) - every year
Hepatitis A according to the CDC, right now to include a, b, c
Hepatitis B
Hepetitus C
Measles yearly
Meningococcal - yearly
Mumps - yearly
Pneumococcal - yearly
Polio - last cases September 2021 in Nigeria, Ethiopia, Mali
Rotavirus - 40 to 50K hospitalizations yearly
Tetanus - probably the closest to being gone. Just over 400 cases in Pakistan in 2019. It is not followed much anymore.
Whooping Cough (Pertussis) - around 100 cases world wide in 2020 mostly in Pakistan.
But the problem is they are still out there and can be used as a bio weapon like sars 2 covid 19.
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