It doesn’t matter which variants are out there because it’s only a matter of time before antibody levels decline again.
Maybe the Zero Covid strategy won't ever end. As long as China continues to grow its real economy much faster than the US, I am fine with it. Has anyone considered that China's stronger growth is because of its successful Zero Covid program?Effing thing is never gonna end.
Agreed, even with the occasional lockdowns, China's economy is still growing strong. As for the second point, Its kind of true as well, especially now with news about bio-warfare labs being found in Ukraine, its almost certain that US is going to use bio warfare tactics in the future. For the Shanghai outbreak, it was mishandled catastrophically initially by the local officials, but its slowly getting resolved. Especially now with this news, the spread will soon be slowed down if R0 reaches below 1.
This outbreak would be a big lesson for the the central government to not trust all the local government with preparation and handling of the pandemic, so there needs to be more oversight by creating or improving organizations behind pandemic management, preparations by building up manufacturing for medical products and temporary shelters for patients, and logistics needed to sustain lockdowns if the worse case scenario happens. I think China can manage pretty well with their dynamic zero-covid strategy, as they learn more strategies and find ways to adapt to it.
I hope they get fired after the situation has gotten under control.
According to @KYli
I agree completely. For anyone who have followed Ding, we are aware that this guy has shown himself to be a chancer and attention seeking doofus. I recall the many times he had those alarmist posts about how particular outbreaks will be so damaging to the region and he is first to warn everyone about it, when it didn't come to reality he would just forget he ever posted that. Now he wants to diminish the actions of chinese government cause it's overkill. It's not that he can't make up his mind, he just wants the clicks. His only initial fame was from the beginning when he posted very early the outbreak in wuhan that it would be very serious and global pandemic. Since that he just been riding on the coattail of that.
I actually used to follow him for news about new covid variants and long covid, but stopped paying attention to him after he decided to make a thread on Russia-Ukraine war, like what the hell is he doing talking about stuff outside of his expertise. Then I found out he's an associate in WEF, which made me more sus about his alignment. His post on Shanghai outbreak is his worse yet, filled with alarmism and misinterpretation, it really show how much of a charlatan and a grifter he is.
