You want China to open up, which means importing many variants of SARS-CoV-2 from the rest of the world.
I never said China should reopen now. I said China should reopen after boosters and full vaccination. Stop twisting my position.
As of February 2021,
, according to Sujeet Kumar Singh, who is Director of NCDC, which I assume is India's equivalent of the US CDC.
There are a million variants of influenza, but we have annual seasonal booster shots for new variants. I'm not sure why you are so enamored with variants when boosters can address them very easily. You also never addressed the thousands of variants produced by bats, deers, dogs, cats within Chinese borders today. How about addressing those variants from animal resevoir population?
YOU said "Bro, once China achieves 100% vaccination plus boosters, China can grow even faster without sporatic lockdowns to achieve an elusive goal of permanent zero infections. Permanent zero deaths should be sufficient."
Zero deaths is a more realistic and cost-effective goal in the long-term compared to Zero infection. There is a weighting of cost-benefit and cost-risk that needs to occur in the long-term, it requires some critical thinking, not just thinking in absolute black/white dichotomy.
You argue like a loser: if you can't dazzle them with the merit of your arguments, baffle them with BS.
Irony coming from someone who doesn't read articles, just the headlines.
Irony coming from someone ignoring the variants in animal host resevoir, ignoring the high efficacy of vaccines against death preventions, ignoring that most vaccinated people only have mild/moderate symptoms, ignoring the fact that even Chinese Chief Scientist of China CDC agrees that 'zero COVID strategy' is not a permanent one. Who is the loser? Sounds like you.
Multivalent vaccines will protect against how many thousands of variants, according to you?
Just like the influenza variants, you only need to address the most dominant variants. You obviously don't need to address ALL the variants in known universe, the goal isn't eradication, but living with the virus and targeting it's most lethal variants with targeted booster shots.
You want China to dump a program that is working well in favor of your plan, which has very little evidence for it?
I never said China should stop lockdowns now, I said China should in the long-term consider loosening restrictions after boosters and full vaccination significantly reducing deaths.
I want China to keep fighting the coronavirus, and not give up as you recommend. For some things there are no quick and easy answers. China must continue to fight. Who knows, perhaps a strong vaccine will emerge that proves effective against all variants.
Basically you are clueless and you refuse to offer a solution. "Keep on fighting" is what US said in Afghanistan for the last 20 years, but repeating the same thing over and over again. Do you have a clear exit strategy in the long-term?
Who knows, perhaps a strong vaccine will emerge that proves effective against all variants.
That's what I'm trying to say. That's what most Chinese scientist likely believe will happen in the long-term.
