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
Frankly I'm kinda suspicious about the "no food lockdown" because everything from westoids is, but I can still imagine that happening in a few places due to local oversight.
Also I heard that Chinese authorities at some point overfocused on the idea that the virus could be spread via surfaces (it almost never spreads this way). I also see a lot of videos of the authorities spraying down rooms and such, which I don't believe is super necessary--maybe only if a person is moving in RIGHT AFTER, like within an hour, but otherwise the virus mostly dies in the air after several hours.
It's really the live people breathing that you need to worry about, not surfaces or day-old virus which has been exposed to the elements/already sunk to the ground
i had a texan friend living in shanghai explain it to me and he basically said most people dont have freezers so they dont keep food for themselves long. him being texan, he had like 3 deep freezers full of food that he shared with neighbors and was very popular for a week while the supply chain was disrupted. theres a lot of stores and stuff near where people live, like walking distance, so its just a ritual to drive/walk home and immediately go to the store because it comboes as a walk/some exercise
also, china could just be clamping down on diseases in general with those measures. not a bad idea tbh.
Based Texan comrade reestablishing the international with frozen bagel bites