The disastrous implications of lifting Zero-COVID in China
www.wsws.org
The objective laws of viral transmission mean that any shift away from a Zero-COVID elimination strategy carries with it the potential for the situation to quickly spiral out of control.

(note: while WSWS (trot site) uses CCP instead of CPC, they generally have good takes on China and support China against US imperialism)

(note: to clarify, this article is in support of Zero-COVID and sees the lifting of the policy as a grave mistake)

(note: i do not necessarily support all the shit wsws says i am not a fucking trot)

  • Ram_The_Manparts [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    Despite the immense significance of China’s Zero-COVID policy, which for over two years has saved millions of lives and proven that elimination is possible, the nationalist basis of this policy has always rendered it unviable in the long term.

    The fuck does this even mean lmao

    • wopazoo [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      It means that a Zero-COVID policy for China only is unsustainable because even if COVID is eradicated within Chinese borders, travelers will endlessly import COVID from other countries into China.

      • Commander_Data [she/her]
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        2 years ago

        It's so fucking bleak because it mirrors nationalist communism; always under attack from reactionary elements outside your country and doomed to fail.

        • SaniFlush [any, any]
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          2 years ago

          Old world is dying, new world struggles to be born. If you wanted to know what "the time of monsters" looks like, it's... it's this. :cool-zone:

        • wopazoo [he/him]
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          2 years ago

          They want China to carry on with Zero-COVID, but they stress that it's highly important for the whole world to implement Zero-COVID.

          As the World Socialist Web Site has continuously stressed, the only way forward to stop the pandemic is for the international working class to take matters into its own hands and fight for a Zero-COVID global elimination strategy.

          • Spectre_of_Z_poster [they/them]
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            2 years ago

            Yeah so that’s never going to happen in the next few decades so they just want China to sit in economic isolation and slowly withdraw and have their economic gains lost?

            • wopazoo [he/him]
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              2 years ago

              So the Chinese government should collapse the economy instantly by getting everyone sick and thus unable to work?

              • Spectre_of_Z_poster [they/them]
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                2 years ago

                To answer your question with a more relevant question, should China continue in economic lockdown and isolation forever? Is this sustainable? (No it is not)

                There isn’t even a choice here, it’s a foregone conclusion when the world failed to contain the virus, the CCP hand is forced by material reality

                • wopazoo [he/him]
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                  2 years ago

                  Yes, they should actually. It is better than the alternative which is to cave into the US bioterrorist demands to embrace a pro-COVID policy.

                  • Spectre_of_Z_poster [they/them]
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                    2 years ago

                    The CCP has determined it is not viable to continue zero-Covid forever and they are losing popularity of the masses. That’s their decision and the decision of the Chinese masses, you do not have the relevant data the CCP does

      • DengXixian [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        the more I deal with chauvinist trot shit, the more I understand Stalin’s political purges