https://www.cnbc.com/2022/02/07/chinas-zero-covid-policy-will-not-work-with-omicron-epidemiologist.html

China is "uniquely at risk" to omicron, Osterholm said, for a combination of reasons: Early studies suggest its Sinovac and Sinopharm vaccines are "not very effective" against the variant, and at the same time China's success at preventing the spread of Covid so far means it has a very large population that remains vulnerable.

  • half_giraffe [comrade/them]
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    3 years ago

    My favorite part of this particular brand of "China collapse" articles is that no one seems to care to offer a solution. Instead, they demand China abandon an effective strategy and doom a sizeable chunk of their population to certain death. All so that these fucking ghouls can sit on a pile of Chinese skulls and say "I told you so."

  • Hippocrit [none/use name]
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    3 years ago

    “ China’s success at preventing the spread of Covid so far”

    Mask slipped oopsie

    Edit: wait I found something that melts even more of my brain matter:

    “China, which recorded its first omicron case in January, has doubled down on its zero-Covid strategy, in contrast to the growing number of countries that have shifted to living with the virus and lifting restrictions. Many of those countries use proven vaccines and have already experienced waves of infection — two major ways that populations establish antibodies to the virus.”

    Maybe spread those proven vaccine blueprints for starters dickheads

    • CheGueBeara [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      They're talking about it like it's a good thing to experience multiple waves of a pandemic.

      • Hippocrit [none/use name]
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        3 years ago

        They seem to think it’s good for them. Not that it means it’s good for the rest of us…

        • invalidusernamelol [he/him]
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          3 years ago

          There's a show called The Great that's a fictionalized history of Catherine the Great where one of the Serfs gets pox and the courts response is to just throw all the serfs in a bonfire and burn them because "we can't have it getting into the palace"

    • john_browns_beard [he/him, comrade/them]
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      3 years ago

      "So far"...they make it seem like it's been two months and not two fucking years lol

      Five years from now, "surely China's zero covid policy won't be able to stop the Zeta-7 variant"

  • blight [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    implying that westerners have natural herd immunity, that herd immunity works, and that sacrificing immunocompromised people is an acceptable price for it

    :jokerfied::zizek-preference:

  • emizeko [they/them]
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    3 years ago

    the west increasingly humiliated and desperate for China to get sick

    • sooper_dooper_roofer [none/use name]
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      3 years ago

      broke: "sick man of Asia"
      bespoke: "sick man of earth" :amerikkka: :kkkanada: :ukkk: :aus-delenda-est: :france-cool: :germany-cool:

      • Circra [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        Why not shambling zombie of the earth?

        Let's make zombies more like Romero's origonals and an allegory of the decaying husks left by capitalism instead of the stand in for waves of immigrants fascist dickstroking zombie stuff has become.

    • ComradeBongwater [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      this bullshit propaganda about sinovac not working has serious consequences in countries (like colombia) where sinovac is much easier to get than mrna vaccines

      This is a big part of why they're doing it

  • RedundantClam [they/them]
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    3 years ago

    These fucks desperately want China to fuck up covid to make the west look justified in letting millions die because they didn't want to make line go down.

    • NephewAlphaBravo [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      "Your solution has to work perfectly and permanently, otherwise you're just as bad as us. Worse, even, because of reasons."

  • Circra [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Let's face it either with Omnicron or another variant it is likely that China will see another somewhat serious outbreak. However one of 2 things will happen. Either China will lock it down really quickly or some unfortuante chain of events will happen and it'll spread and take longer to get rid of.

    Either way, China - based on every piece of evidence so far - will handle it far better than the US and with far fewer casualties.

    Not to mention that if we get another variant that is bad enough that China struggles to cope with it, there's more or less a cast iron guaruntee that it will utterly devestate the US.

    • SerLava [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      Yeah no matter how bad the next 5 variants are, they will always be at least slowed down by masking, vaccination, and lockdowns. Like we all said in March 2020, you have to flatten the curve to keep people from dying.

      • Circra [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        Yeah exactly that. Plus China's healthcare hasn't spent the last year and a half permanently stretched to breaking point. They prob have capacity, personnel and medical reserves the west simply hasn't.

        This entire article kinda feels like watching someone shit their pants and getting all triumphant cos some of the shit might hypothetically hit some other guy next time it happens.

      • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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        3 years ago

        they will always be at least slowed down by masking, vaccination, and lockdowns

        The dirty secret in the US is that periodic flare-ups also shut down businesses and public services (education, most notably). People laid out on their asses, service delays dragging on the economy, and capital running short-staffed just isn't described as a "lockdown" in modern western parlance anymore.

        Nevermind the long-term impact of Long COVID and a pile of corpses stacked a million bodies high.

        It's all just :cope: at this point. Americans will say anything to explain away the results of shit policy.

  • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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    3 years ago

    "China hasn't had millions of vulnerable people die needlessly so it has a large population of vulnerable people"

    • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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      3 years ago

      Um, its called Herd Immunity sweety. Its how Americans beat the virus and saved the economy.

  • anoncpc [comrade/them]
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    3 years ago

    Maybe should worry about his country with 1k to 3k death a day than China. The US look like a place that potentially could breed new variant.

    • TheModerateTankie [any]
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      3 years ago

      No, you see, we are fine. Look how many devastating covid waves we've had! That means we've had a shit ton of people infected so we have a bunch of people protected by antibodies! :jokerfication:

      We are now detecting new variants of covid in NY wastewater that seem to be coming from rats, but I'm sure we have nothing to fear since we sickened and killed so many people to appease the line gods. So many antibodies!

      • GalaxyBrain [they/them]
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        3 years ago

        Herd immunity is full proof. That's why stuff like smallpox and syphilis are only from the ancient past and wasn't a problem through most of recorded history up until vaccines.

  • penguin_von_doom [she/her]
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    3 years ago

    Wait a minute... Not only is this an anti-china article, it's also a "natural immunity" bullshit article...

  • MelaniaTrump [undecided]
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    3 years ago

    Says a mayo fuck whose country exterminated (officially) 900k people so Wendy’s can stay open

  • Elon_Musk [none/use name]
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    3 years ago

    First of all it's Feb 2022, the Omicron wave is like 3/4 over. Second of all, wtf

  • sooper_dooper_roofer [none/use name]
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    3 years ago

    China will collapse due to omicron!!!11

    nothing more greenpilling than this, it means that China will pass omicron with flying colors