I still don’t understand this argument. China’s economy did significantly better than the countries that let covid spread. Most countries had their economies shrink during a time when China’s grew, and the difference was zero covid.
Zero covid IS the economically sane policy. Sick people are expensive.
I can certainly see an argument for changing the details of zero-covid. Especially when it comes to different localities responding differently.
But they went from amazing if a bit too strict protections to nearly nothing and a lot of people have already died because of it, and I don’t see how China will avoid the same problem of having millions of newly disabled people with long-covid. And again, at least based on the numbers that the west use zero-covid was a much more economically sound policy than let-it-rip. China’s economy grew, others shrank.
Even western media on the ground report that the number of Chinese protestors who want regime change are low, while the majority are just pissed with the local government or simply want rules to be changed with the central government.
I think they did that in response to the massive protests that were occuring over the lockdown. The Chinese system does seem to listen to protestors
"Massive" :doubt: I seem to recall quite a few of them being questionable.
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Oh, I get why they did it, but I think they're gonna regret it.
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Fingers crossed, but I think if they were feeling a strain before, millions and millions of people disabled aren't gonna help.
I still don’t understand this argument. China’s economy did significantly better than the countries that let covid spread. Most countries had their economies shrink during a time when China’s grew, and the difference was zero covid.
Zero covid IS the economically sane policy. Sick people are expensive.
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I can certainly see an argument for changing the details of zero-covid. Especially when it comes to different localities responding differently.
But they went from amazing if a bit too strict protections to nearly nothing and a lot of people have already died because of it, and I don’t see how China will avoid the same problem of having millions of newly disabled people with long-covid. And again, at least based on the numbers that the west use zero-covid was a much more economically sound policy than let-it-rip. China’s economy grew, others shrank.
Even western media on the ground report that the number of Chinese protestors who want regime change are low, while the majority are just pissed with the local government or simply want rules to be changed with the central government.
yeah they didn't want regime change they wanted lockdown to end
I remember those protests being incredibly small and blown up by western media
To me it sounds exactly like the US lifting mask mandates because of a small group of :frothingfash: whining about it.
China shouldn’t listen to its :covid-cool::frothingfash: either.