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
also having actual production capacities so you can rapidly set up test & trace systems must've been a massive advantage for all NE Asian countries. Here in Europe, that took ages to set up because stuff like cotton swabs or test tubes was out of stock constantly. this is what happens when you offshore most of your manufacturing, you end up not having a functioning state anymore when shit goes down.