Posted on 03/24/2022 6:20:13 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Shanghai (AFP) – A top doctor in China's pandemic fight who came under pressure last year for questioning the country’s zero-Covid policy has called again for balancing anti-virus measures with maintenance of normal life as China struggles with an Omicron surge.
Shanghai infectious disease expert Zhang Wenhong -- who has been called "China's Fauci" after US disease expert Anthony Fauci -- also said in a blog post that the city's medical resources were becoming "strained" as cases climb, but he expects the metropolis to turn the corner soon.
Zhang's comments may indicate officials' growing tolerance for those questioning zero-Covid as patience with draconian lockdowns wears thin.
“In the future pandemic fight, maintaining normal life should be placed in a position of equal importance with (virus screening)," Zhang posted on China's Twitter-like Weibo platform Thursday.
"We hope that we can minimise the impact on our lives as much as possible."
Zhang said he had made his rounds in Shanghai's viral hotspots and acknowledged that the rolling, localised lockdowns had imposed public hardship and that medical resources were "strained".
The city’s battle against Covid-19 was at a "stalemate" and faced "great difficulties," he said.
But Zhang added that screening measures were beginning to turn up fewer cases in previously untested neighbourhoods, indicating that the Omicron-fuelled surge could be waning.
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Of all the things China had to steal from us and copy, why couldn’t they have made a working Fauci? Granted, theirbentire government is totalitarian and genocidal, and they probably killed way more people during covid by licking down millions of people for months on end (and, you know, the whole inventing and unleashing covid bit) but at the public health level, this guy seems like a dream by comparison.
Translation: Commie politics isn't working out quite as planned. The West was gullible and eviscerated their economies over panic, but now that the media-amolified fear threatens China...."
OFFICIALLY -- as of 24 March 2022 and more than two years into this "pandemic," China's deaths are reported to be 11,207 in a nation of 1.4 billion.
Source: https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/region/china
“China’s Fauci” huh?
Send him to the Gulags.
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