Posted on 12/03/2022 12:55:47 PM PST by nickcarraway
China has a problem with the Confucian tradition of filial piety; otherwise, the death of a couple million of mostly old people would reduce the burden of old people on the Chinese economy.
Filial piety
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filial_piety
In Confucianism, Chinese Buddhism, and Daoist ethics,[2] filial piety (Chinese: 孝, xiào) (Latin: pietas) is a virtue of respect for one’s parents, elders, and ancestors. The Confucian Classic of Filial Piety, thought to be written around the late Warring States-Qin-Han period, has historically been the authoritative source on the Confucian tenet of filial piety. The book—a purported dialogue between Confucius and his student Zengzi—is about how to set up a good society using the principle of filial piety. Filial piety is central to Confucian role ethics.
In more general terms, filial piety means to be good to one’s parents; to take care of one’s parents; to engage in good conduct, not just towards parents but also outside the home so as to bring a good name to one’s parents and ancestors; to show love, respect, and support; to display courtesy; to ensure male heirs; to uphold fraternity among brothers; to wisely advise one’s parents, including dissuading them from moral unrighteousness; to display sorrow for their sickness and death; and to bury them and carry out sacrifices after their death.
Filial piety is considered a key virtue in Chinese and other East Asian cultures, and it is the main subject of many stories. One of the most famous collections of such stories is The Twenty-four Cases of Filial Piety (Chinese: 二十四孝; pinyin: Èrshí-sì xiào). These stories depict how children exercised their filial piety customs in the past. While China has always had a diversity of religious beliefs, the custom of filial piety has been common to almost all of them; historian Hugh D.R. Baker calls respect for the family the one element common to almost all Chinese people.
They stopped counting Covid deaths in February of 2020.
"May" dances with "if" while "might be" leads the "could be" band.
baloney
Right. So for the sake of your health, you must lose all rights indefinitely. Makes sense.
Funny Africa seems to be doing just fine almost no vaxs or deaths
Kind of weird 😀
That many may die no matter how they respond. As with most outbreaks, the only thing you can do is let it rage through the population And wash your hands regularly.
And then stop making the stuff in labs.
“China may face more than 2 million deaths if it drops its Covid-19 curbs without any safeguards”
That’s about half the number of deaths around the world their virus caused so no sympathy here.
bkmk
RE: China reported 5,233 Covid-19-related deaths and 331,952 cases with symptoms.
Note: You cannot trust the Chinese Communists to be honest. Ever.
All these years people have said the Chinese have many millions to spare. As in their evil war plans of imperialist aggression against the West (us).
Meanwhile in Africa, in which nearly no one has had the shots.. there is almost no covid.
That makes sense. That's why the West do not really understands China. We just put our elderly in our old folks' homes and then we forget about them.
There is no one in Africa over 70. And if he makes it to that age, he's a stud.
Maybe they haven’t heard of ivermectin. Maybe someone should send them a link.
China has less than four intensive care beds per 100,000.
TexasFreeper2009 wrote: “Meanwhile in Africa, in which nearly no one has had the shots.. there is almost no covid.”
Only because there is no testing for Covid in Africa.
glorgau wrote: “Millions of Chinese will die of Covid unless they do something crazy like Uttar Pradesh.”
Uttar Pradesh’s ‘successes’ have been debunked numerous times.
...and lack of herd immunity
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That tends to happen when you keep locking up the population. Humans have been genetically selected over millennia to survive thru herd immunity. Individualized immune response staves off the virus and prevents or limits mutations. However, by employing widespread “leaky” vaccines, governments succeeded at driving the virus to mutate by finding a consistent mechanism for escaping the vaccine. Now China has a largely unexposed population and the virus is now on the “Wuhan 5.0” version.
Most MSM reports on "official" PRC data claim:
" For the first nine months of the year, China's GDP grew by 3%, with Beijing no longer mentioning about the target of 5.5% for 2022 but pledged easier lending and other measures to boost growth. The GDP data was originally scheduled for October,18th but was delayed until the Party Congress ended.
source: National Bureau of Statistics of China."
This is rubbish.
There are no official numbers reported out of China that can be trusted in any way. They just make up reports to satisfy the demands of their bosses. Any truth to in report is probably coincidental, in service to a political agenda.
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