Overseas Chinese said that in recent days they have been sending sensitive content on social media sites in mainland China. Those posts were approved as if online police had disappeared.
A Beijing-based dissident interviewed by Radio Free Asia said that the domestic security guards in his hometown told him that the entire public security building in his hometown had its one to two hundred employees become positive. Only a few were left on duty.
Long queues at the crematoria, chaos at the post office. Patients in the hospital have several blankets and staff wear outdoor clothing. No heat in the hospital?
Since there is no testing and the government has not established an antigen self-test reporting network, there is no basically accurate statistical data, and many people make predictions with the help of network data and models. Judging from the various predictions published on the Internet, they are relatively consistent The conclusion is: At present, most cities in the country have reached their peak, and the infection rate has exceeded 50%, and some cities have even exceeded 90%. According to the comprehensive average estimate, the national infection rate has exceeded 40%, which means that the number of infected people in the country is at least 560 million people, approaching or even exceeding 600 million people.
For comparison, at the meeting of the National Health and Medical Commission on the 21st, it was estimated that the number of people infected nationwide on the 20th was 248 million, and the infection rate reached 17.63%. The next 10 days are the time when the speed of infection in various places accelerates. Most cities reach their peak during these 10 days. Therefore, the calculation that the infection rate exceeds 40% on the 30th and the number of infected people reaches 600 million is not high, and it is more realistic.
As for the reason why Beijing spread so fiercely this time, he believes that there are three main factors: one is that Beijing is dominated by the Omicron BF.7 strain, which is by far the strain with the strongest transmission rate. The other is the climate factor, because after December is the coldest season, the respiratory tract is relatively dry, and people gather more indoors, which is most likely to cause the spread of respiratory diseases. There may be other respiratory infectious diseases in it, such as influenza. Mutant strains of influenza have also appeared, and the outbreak rate of influenza in the north will increase after winter. With many factors together, we have ushered in the storm of the new coronavirus Omicron, and this storm is indeed coming very fast, and its progress is faster than we imagined.