Posted on 04/30/2022 10:31:14 AM PDT by EBH
This week, supermarkets in Beijing were hit with panic buying after only a few dozen confirmed cases stoked fears a lockdown was imminent.
Apartment complexes have been locked up and barricaded due to infections inside.
Not only are the lockdowns expensive, but investors are also wary of China's aggressive strategy, with the share market performing poorly this year and the local currency, the yuan, hitting a 17-month low.
So, why are China's rulers still determined to use lockdowns in the pursuit of COVID zero?
"It's the only playbook they have," Chang Chuan Chan, a health policy expert at Taiwan National University, explained.
"It's become a [matter of] pride for Chinese leaders. They thought they can prove there's a way to eliminate the cases."
Professor Chan said the aggressive lockdown strategy was something China learned when it tackled the spread of severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS.
The disease, which was first identified in South China in 2002, spread to 32 countries and regions, resulting in the confirmed deaths of 813 people.
And when a mysterious illness, which we now know as COVID-19, appeared years later in Wuhan, the Chinese bureaucracy deployed a similar tactic.
"It was so successful in Wuhan after 76 days' lockdown, even though the cost was very high," Professor Chan said.
China failed to stop the disease escaping to other countries and triggering a global pandemic, but at home a mix of quick and aggressive lockdowns, mass compulsory testing and hard international borders kept the virus at bay.
China was able to escape the worst of the outbreak experienced in the US, Europe, and other parts of Asia.
After their initial embarrassment, the relative success was something politicians and bureaucrats relished.
"It's all because of where this started," Professor Chan said.
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I’m guessing people were on the verge of coordinated revolution and this is their way to isolate and eliminate the instigators.
“China failed to stop the disease escaping to other countries and triggering a global pandemic,”
China purposely locked down Wuhan EXCEPT if you were taking a flight out of China. They purposely triggered the global pandemic!
*Experts? Who are these experts?
**Top men, Top men.
You lost me at “experts say.”
they are practicing for when they release fauci’s bird flu with the furin cleavage spliced in.
They’re afraid they might lose the mandate of heaven.
These “experts” are insane.
Resetting the Communist Regime.
China and Russia seem to be engaged in self destruction.
Good. Let the cat eating commies self destruct. Couldn’t happen to a nicer bunch.
They are sensing a population revolt,nothing to do with covid as the American scummedia would like you to think
Libs get aroused when they see these reports...
CBS News
COVID-19 outbreak in China lead to massive restrictions
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nuCfZdjpjg
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