In its zealous effort to contain the coronavirus, the Chinese government has trampled on the rights of U.S. diplomats to an extent previously unknown, compelling the State Department to take drastic measures to protect them. Beijing’s heavy-handed pandemic practices have forced the United States’ representatives there to live in constant fear.
:kitty-cri: pls protec the smol diplomats
For the past two years, U.S. diplomatic personnel in China have been forced to confront the risk of being detained or separated from their family members for either testing positive for the coronavirus or being deemed a “close contact” of someone who has. In fact, 16 U.S. diplomatic personnel or their family members have been sent, against their will, to Chinese government medical quarantine centers since the pandemic began,
:xi-gun: hello u must quarantine or people will die
:wojak-nooo: nooooo
Chinese government boasts about its handling of the pandemic, claiming suspiciously low numbers of deaths and infections since the virus emerged in Wuhan in late 2019. But whatever success the authorities have achieved in containing the spread has come at a steep cost for Chinese citizens
:cap-think: suspiciously low deaths from the Wuhan China Virus, but also if it's true then it's also bad
having to isolate for a bit every now and again, in a country that actually has a social safety net so you're not just going to starve to death if you don't go to work - STEEP COST
millions of people dying, millions more being condemned to suffer from fatigue and other Long Covid symptoms for probably the entire rest of their lives, immunocompromised people having to live in a fucking zombie movie where basically every interaction with another person might get them killed - PERFECTLY FINE