It’s a political decision to maintain social stability and continuity until after the October Party congress. After that, we will see.
Coronavirus 2019-2020 thread (no unsubstantiated rumours!)
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Once october comes and goes and nothing changes wrt zero covid, I will make sure to tag you in this thread. Tired of people saying this again and again when it's just not true.
Tag it. Won’t bother me much. But unless you have a direct line to the Zhong Nan Hai, everybody here is just wishing, guessing, postulating.
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Now nothing will change, autumn and then winter is for sure not the time to open, if they keep zero covid after spring 2023 which would be the time to open, then I believe I should change my projected date to 2030+ from 2027 when China will take over the USA as the nominal $ number one economy.
US gdp is bloated with inflation and vaporware sectors like finance and insurance. China has by all the most important metrics overtaken US as the number 1 economy: largest manufacturing sector, largest GDP by PPP, largest trading partner of most countries. And it happened before covid was a thing.
And they can buy over the resources of others like big chunk of the Chinese trade surplus, Chinese entrepreneurs are very happy receiving the "worthless" dollars, meanwhile Chinese yuan and other much worse currencies like Polish złoty or Japan yen are sinking. It seems American hegemony is not as vaporware as people seem. Everything was going into the right direction for China until the lockdowns started appearing in more and more places at the beginning of the 2022, then the sinking of the yuan started with the Chinese economy tanking. 2022 will be the worst year for China in comparison to the rest of the world since 1989.
America's primary economic strength lies in its position as the head honcho of a global alliance of the richest and most technologically advanced nations in the world. So no, the dollar is not "worthless" (a statement I have never made), but by itself it gets comfortably outproduced by China and that has been the case for a while now. For example, in industrial capacity China is greater than US + Japan + Germany.
Not to mention every time you get covid it's like rolling a die for it to turn into long covid. The more times you get infected, the more likely you are to end up with some sort of long term condition. Imagine you are median age in the US, somewhere around 40. If you get covid even once every other year that's a lot of opportunities to get fucked up. Imagine the poor kids rolling around in daycares that may as well be petri dishes at this point. I wonder what that many dice rolls would do to a body over time.
The China zero covids policy has repeatedly been debated to death already. Let us not start it all over again.
Talking about not accepting facts: the West can't accept the fact that China has a different approach to control covids while the Chinese have no problems with the West of having their own methods of living with covids. The Chinese have never claimed to have or aim for a perfect solution and they never imposed their methods on others.
Good governance, not any particular political ideology, is required to solve this pandemic. The world is in a mess because countries across the world have implemented a range of policies based more on politics rather than science.
For capitalist countries, profit comes before lives. For socialist countries, lives come before profit.