I can’t understand it. Look at what Covid is doing right now. It’s fucking awful. Why couldn’t they just stay with Zero-COVID till everyone got vaccinated? Why haven’t they vaccinated everyone by now? It’s so frustrating. Who the fuck cares if someone assholes protested with blank paper? Just…why?
You can blame capitalists, protestors, or the west but Zero Covid was never going to be permanent especially with omicron. Even before they relaxed restrictions, they couldn’t get rid of it. None of us have gone through an almost 2.5 year zero Covid and I think the mental toll is legit especially when citizens see the rest of the world carrying on pre pandemic. It’s also unrealistic for users to think the rest of the world could do something as well as zero Covid. The only thing is China should be faulted on is getting their elderly population vaccinated at a higher rate and accept western vaccines as well.
Everything China has done should be applauded and their worst will never be like rest of the world’s worst.
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Also “3 years of zero covid” is 2 and half years of safely living your life like normal interspersed with occasional periods of lockdown. Instead of 2 and a half years of living your life like normal interspersed with occasional covid infections.
Yeah, that sounds like way worse suffering than having loved ones die and being permanently disabled. For sure.
I’m just surprised they didn’t hold on a little longer for the nasal vaccines to be widely deployed. I guess I’m perhaps placing too much optimism in them as a way out of this.
Yeah I was expecting them to wait for after the winter. I think they became too nervous with protests popping up and didn’t want to make things worse. Protesting worse I guess.
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Yeah they’ve been approved - no idea of how widespread the roll out has been though (which is obviously no small task!).
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if rest-of-the-world did zero covid, omicron wouldn't exist