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)

  • 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

    • wopazoo [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      They will reconsider once people are rioting over empty pharmacy shelves.

        • wopazoo [he/him]
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          2 years ago

          Let's wait and see. I have immunocompromised family in China, and I am invested in the situation.

          • Spectre_of_Z_poster [they/them]
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            2 years ago

            You don’t think the CCP has immunocompromised members or family or are invested in the decision? Maybe cut the utopian trot shit that fills this article

            • wopazoo [he/him]
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              2 years ago

              I am not a trot. WSWS is the best I found, not the ideal source.

              • Spectre_of_Z_poster [they/them]
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                2 years ago

                this article is filled with trot shit, calling socialism in china a "fallacy" and demanding they keep up utopian levels of effort at a doomed project the rest of the world has rejected and will never accomplish

              • DengXixian [he/him]
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                2 years ago

                perhaps if the best source you could find with this opinion, then it would be worth reevaluating your opinion

                • VenetianMask [any]
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                  2 years ago

                  "well maybe if you share your opinion with someone stupid your opinion is stupid!"

                  -let er rip activist

                  • DengXixian [he/him]
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                    2 years ago

                    If the best source of your opinion is a Trotskyist website advocating for china to escalate it’s zero covid policy into a global revolution then yes, perhaps evaluate lol

                    Besides, most of the imperialist core’s state media have also adopted the position that china relaxing it’s zero-covid policy is now somehow bad and catastrophic, as though they were not saying the exact opposite three days ago.