(i.e. flatten the curve)
I’ve been told it will take two weeks
Is cases a useful metric at this point?
I read that COVID is basically a non-issue in Africa now since Africans did not have the resources (or perhaps they just had the good sense) regarding societal lockdowns. I wonder how COVID can be so debilitating for China and not for other areas of the world.
Prove lockdowns work.
“Very strange behavior.”
There’s that very nagging feeling they know something we don’t. Or they are the quintessential “inscrutable Orientals.”
Nope, doesn’t counter. “We” don’t know the full plan.
Also has the desired affect of keeping the proles conditioned to being controlled and obedient to the government and authorities. That trumps everything in commie world.
The Chinese behavior is not about controlling COVID (which at this point is pretty much impossible). It is about destroying political opponents in regions where there are simply too many of them with too much popular support.
The "Zero COVID" policy gives authorities the rationalization to effectively destroy cities and perhaps entire provinces if they get out of line. It also keeps their population continuously in terror of infections and more likely to obey the authorities.
Guess the ChiComms will have to continue welding shut the doors to peoples’ apartments to keep them from intermingling with others.
That’s why the worries of them being a rival to us is a folly. They are groundhogs, scared of their shadows. They have killed their youths futures with lockdowns.
This is more about political unrest than about Covid!
Send Fauci over there. He’s not doing anything now.
What are the Chinese hiding?
Your assumptions seems to be that communism is monolithic and rational. The communists are certainly capable of building a bioweapon with our tax dollars. Could have been released accidentally. Could ahve been released by competing communist elements. Mindless overreaction by local authorities is also another communist speciality along with authoritarian rule to force stupid policies on the subjects.
My favorite conspiracy theory is that it was released by CIA assets inside the Wuhan lab. Prove me wrong.
Seems a very sensible behavior from the perspective of 1) internal political repression so useful to the party elite, and 2) external imagery for the world press to insist that Covid is a "thing." The game is to convince world economies to further "lock down," meaning competing nations screw over their own economies because FEAR!!!
China? 15,860 deaths in three years in a population of over a billion.
https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/region/china
So the amount of BS here is no anomaly. It is a manipulation. The Chicoms want to scare the nations of the world into hamstringing their economies, because China is the world's leading supplier of masks and tests and more,
Here's a little reading: "Ever since entering the China market in the 1980s, Pfizer has been committed to contributing to both the economic development of China and the health of Chinese citizens. We have been continuously offering a broad innovative product portfolio and actively collaborating with health service providers, academia and governments to support the rapid growth of healthcare in China. Our unique competitive advantages enable us to better realize our mission: Working together for a healthier China."
Source: https://www.pfizer.com.cn/pfizer-china/index_en.html
China reaps what it sowed.
Why is my sympathy violin quiet?
The best way to get through this epidemic is let the virus take its toll and let natural immunity throughout the population take its natural route. Concentrate on therapies to allow one to survive the infection. If the virus is still affecting the population in a couple of years, then roll out a vaccine that has proved to be safe and effective against the mutating Wuhan Virus.
Xi and hence the CCP decreed Zero Covid, and cannot back down.
China's problem was establishing a useless and unattainable goal.