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)

  • DengXixian [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    why are you assuming the Chinese government will throw open the plague gates the same way America and Canada has?

    “Wind down zero covid” does not mean doing nothing like most countries in the imperial core have resulted to.

    • wopazoo [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      I assumed wrongly that it would be a complete pro-COVID policy. I am reassured that the new COVID policy in China is not comparable to the pro-COVID policies of the West.

      • DengXixian [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        It is very easy to understand why you would feel that way. The West’s approach to covid has been truly been “pro-Covid” and it is horrifying.

    • Farman [any]
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      2 years ago

      Whether they trow them oplen or opnen them slowly. At the end they are open

        • Farman [any]
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          2 years ago

          Not really. Even now if the west wanted thet could do a 4 weeks close down and covid wold be done. Either way you need a 4 week closedown to fix things.

          The difference is psycological. In that if you se a slow increase in death rates youe are not as shoked as when there is a sudden death glut. Wich is what moved western hoverments to action in 2020. The corpse cart going down the street looks really bad. Even if you are in a neoliberal hellhole.