Posted on 03/28/2022 5:06:42 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
BEIJING (AP) — China began its most extensive coronavirus lockdown in two years Monday to conduct mass testing and control a growing outbreak in Shanghai as questions are raised about the economic toll of the nation’s “zero-COVID” strategy.
Shanghai, China’s financial capital and largest city with 26 million people, had managed its smaller previous outbreaks with limited lockdowns of housing compounds and workplaces where the virus was spreading.
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That sort of stupid statement really yanks my chain.
Biggest COVID-19 lockdown in two years? Does that imply that the COVID-19 lockdown of 2018 was somewhat bigger? Or should they simply say that this is the biggest lockdown ever? Why not say that?
Chinese government shot itself in the foot by insisting that it can lock down the COVID virus.
They erroneously made it a party mission to eradicate COVID. Its going to turn out to be a repeat of the Mao sparrow war.
Looks like folks will have to wait another year for their Playstation 5.
Oil is going to drop on this news.
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