China Faces Omicron ‘Tsunami’ If It Abandons Controversial Zero-Covid Policy, Researchers Warn

Forbes ^ | 05/10/2022 | Forbes Staff

[ChicagoConservative27]

China faces an omicron “tsunami” that could overwhelm hospitals and kill more than 1 million people if it abandons its “zero-Covid” strategy, according to a new study published in Nature Medicine on Tuesday, as officials double down on the controversial policy despite worsening social and economic damages of such strict lockdowns.

[ChicagoConservative27]

Huh???? This is demented

[Uncle Miltie]

With over a billion people and a death rate of 0.1%+, 1,000,000 dead is foreseeable.

[BenLurkin]

The hospitals have had two full years to prepare for any “surge”.

We were told they only needed two weeks.

[Chickensoup]

How many people normally die per year in china?

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Ain’t totalitarians medical fascism grand?

[skeeter]

Steve better get ahold of his magazine. It’s spinning off its axis.

[Uncle Miltie]

Fewer.

;-)

[Jonty30]

China is a third world country, in every sense of the word, except with the thinnest veneer of modernity.

It has always dealt with these things by letting people die.
Obviously, imo, the covid quarantine is just being used a pretext for Xi to have more centralization.

[bigfootbob]

Robert Malthus smiles as he peers northernly.

[fishtank]

Hey China,
it’s time to go Full Swede!

[lee martell]

Omicron? That would produce a ‘Tsunami of Feathers’.

[lightman]

Fourteen days to flatten the curve.

/s

Shut down over a sniffle...what a bunch of pansies.

[Vendome]

Bull crap.

Xi is using Covid as his low level war against the economies of the world.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

1,449,693,314 people
7.18 deaths per 1,000 inhabitant (2021)
10,408,795 annual deaths (give or take a few)

Of the million who might croak from COVID, lots of them were going to die anyway (elderly, bad co-morbidities, etc). So maybe an extra half million dead? Extra quarter million dead? Maybe “only” an extra 100,000 dead?

[cuz1961]

What’s 100 of thousands, even millions of dying Chinese

to a Chinese Communist Party.

Nothing.

(not like we haven’t seen it before)

.

a means to an end as always.

.

[Antoninus]

Who the hell are these people on the ed board of Nature Medicine. They are literally saying the same things they said in March of 2020 as if they haven’t learned a damn thing.

[Glad2bnuts]

That is what I was thinking. Who cares about 1 Million dead people out of 2 Billion? The US has 3 + million die year in and year out of all causes.

[ealgeone]

China claims less than 10k deaths last time I checked worldometers.

No way.

[Disambiguator]

So instead the CCP is starving people to death. Because that is so much better.

[El Cid]

Obviously, imo, the covid quarantine is just being used a pretext for Xi to have more centralization.

Agreed. The Chicoms used the CoVid-19 lockdowns to completely shutdown the Hong Kong demonstrations. They were getting good traction, and then - poof - gone.
And, of course, the Marxists in America used CoVid-19 to stuff the ballot boxes (via massive mail in ballots) and to overthrow the duly elected President of the United States.