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)

  • Ligma_Male [comrade/them]
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    2 years ago

    then they should also reasonably trust the CPC to wind it down and/or adjust it.

    no, look at new zealand and how those liberal got it kinda right for so long and then fucked it up so severely by ending measures too soon. there's nothing magical about being AES or run at least partially by ideological marxists that makes you immune to fucking up like that, especially when you have to participate in a global capitalist economy.

    i hope i'm wrong but china might be doing a bunch of social murder here. not that i could do anything about it one way or the other. it's less wEsTeRn CrItIcIsM oF cHinA and more watching somebody i respected and admired about to fuck up the thing they were doing better than everybody else for approximately no reason.