Funnily enough, the Capitalist economy needs them to. Look at how the supply chain is shitting itself with these limited lockdowns. Imagine if they had the death toll and "labor shortages" the US is experiencing.
Imagine if they had the death toll and “labor shortages” the US is experiencing.
Got bored and punched some numbers. If China had the same amount of its population dead from covid as the US, there would be about 4.1 million dead Chinese people as opposed to about the 8,600 that have actually died
No idea what 4.1 million dead people would do to the Chinese economy though because I don't know anything about the economy of China
You're forgetting long covid. One of the biggest things effecting productive capacity in the west right now is the millions and millions of people that have recovered, but are still weakened and sick compared to how they were before.
I'm not sure. It really depends on how much doing their neo-liberal reforms have gutted their state's capacity to sustain medical intervention on the public.
I think because of their rapid development the Chinese are willing and able to put up with alot more government intervention because of general good-will, and because of that the government has basically created another entire economy dedicated to the COVID prevention. Like factories making masks, and thermometers, people making vaccines and research grants, and people getting paid to stand in the streets and check people and at the front of buildings, and the IT for their tracing, etc. It has been pretty good for the Chinese economy and most of the time, people are living their normal social lives, without disease, and it appears there is a social pressure to maintain that, from within the government, and from the populace. As long as that market remains healthy, which it should unless China runs out of material to produce stuff with, they should be able to sustain it indefinitely. The question is if they have the wherewithall to not cut funding to it if the economy turns south and/or they begin to stall on growth, which idk on that one, they appear to be making mostly good choices so far and I can't read Chinese so I'm speculating after that.
Might be worth considering the Chinese political culture as well. There's a long-rooted belief in a kind-of Mandate From Heaven. Good leaders are blessed with fair weather and good fortune. Bad leaders are plagued by natural disasters and wars and the like.
Keeping pandemic at bay is as much a matter of political necessity as economic necessity. Unlike in the States, when a plague rips through the population, Chinese people start insisting that their leadership needs to GTFO. And given the stakes at play, that would make Beijing a ripe target for US regime-change strategies.
Yes, zero covid is better than lie flat and let's it's infect everyone, especially with Deltacron on the loom. Also, one of the leaders in the province got demoted for letting covid run away, when he should stamp it out.
Would China be able to sustain the whole zero covid thing?
Funnily enough, the Capitalist economy needs them to. Look at how the supply chain is shitting itself with these limited lockdowns. Imagine if they had the death toll and "labor shortages" the US is experiencing.
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And the sheer density of Chinese cities means that transmission is much more likely. Its actually incredible how well its been controlled so far.
Got bored and punched some numbers. If China had the same amount of its population dead from covid as the US, there would be about 4.1 million dead Chinese people as opposed to about the 8,600 that have actually died
No idea what 4.1 million dead people would do to the Chinese economy though because I don't know anything about the economy of China
You're forgetting long covid. One of the biggest things effecting productive capacity in the west right now is the millions and millions of people that have recovered, but are still weakened and sick compared to how they were before.
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I'm not sure. It really depends on how much doing their neo-liberal reforms have gutted their state's capacity to sustain medical intervention on the public.
I think because of their rapid development the Chinese are willing and able to put up with alot more government intervention because of general good-will, and because of that the government has basically created another entire economy dedicated to the COVID prevention. Like factories making masks, and thermometers, people making vaccines and research grants, and people getting paid to stand in the streets and check people and at the front of buildings, and the IT for their tracing, etc. It has been pretty good for the Chinese economy and most of the time, people are living their normal social lives, without disease, and it appears there is a social pressure to maintain that, from within the government, and from the populace. As long as that market remains healthy, which it should unless China runs out of material to produce stuff with, they should be able to sustain it indefinitely. The question is if they have the wherewithall to not cut funding to it if the economy turns south and/or they begin to stall on growth, which idk on that one, they appear to be making mostly good choices so far and I can't read Chinese so I'm speculating after that.
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Might be worth considering the Chinese political culture as well. There's a long-rooted belief in a kind-of Mandate From Heaven. Good leaders are blessed with fair weather and good fortune. Bad leaders are plagued by natural disasters and wars and the like.
Keeping pandemic at bay is as much a matter of political necessity as economic necessity. Unlike in the States, when a plague rips through the population, Chinese people start insisting that their leadership needs to GTFO. And given the stakes at play, that would make Beijing a ripe target for US regime-change strategies.
Yes, zero covid is better than lie flat and let's it's infect everyone, especially with Deltacron on the loom. Also, one of the leaders in the province got demoted for letting covid run away, when he should stamp it out.