Coronavirus 2019-2020 thread (no unsubstantiated rumours!)

getready

Senior Member
They need to better communicate and control rumours

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Again, unsubstantiated rumours have played a role. Stories have spread that the testing companies are faking PCR results to artificially boost the number of infections in order to make more money.
In the north of the country, the coronavirus rumour mill is also building pressure.
Officials in Hebei Province announced that the city of Shijiazhuang would halt mass testing. But this led to speculation that the population was going to be used, guinea-pig-style, to monitor what would happen if the virus was allowed to spread unchecked."
Do you know how that rumour was spread? I saw that shijiazhuang news on douyin. It said the numerous free mass testing pcr sites over there are going to close. Those who want to be tested have to go hospital in future. It was widely seen but based on comments, most seem to accept it. Some complaints and worries but nothing major.
 

Quickie

Colonel
Good thread I found that summarizes and reminds us of the origins of covid

This is so crazy. This vaping disease that was killing people only happened in the U.S. and was unheard of in the rest of the world with its many more millions of people that were vaping.

And how could this vaping disease suddenly become non-existent after the initial outbreak?
 

Orthan

Senior Member
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“”The area is home to many poorer itinerant labourers. They have complained of not being paid if they are unable to turn up for work, and of food shortages and skyrocketing prices while living under Covid control measures.
For several nights, they'd been tussling with the white-clad Covid prevention enforcement officials, and then overnight on Monday the anger suddenly exploded onto the streets of Guangzhou with a mass act of defiance.””
For how long will the chinese government will continue with this policy? if the problem is inadequate chinese vaccines, then china should import from moderna or other western vaccine makers. The economic and social cost of continuing this policy far outweights the cost of importing vaccines.
 

tygyg1111

Captain
Registered Member
For how long will the chinese government will continue with this policy? if the problem is inadequate chinese vaccines, then china should import from moderna or other western vaccine makers. The economic and social cost of continuing this policy far outweights the cost of importing vaccines.
Importing / not importing vaccines is not the question here. Moderna and other western vaccines did not work correctly (boosters needed every few months, still resulting in high death rate), so importing them will not solve the problem of achieving a safe opening up.
Vaccination awareness, and subsequently vaccinating a high enough proportion of the population, esp. older and more vulnerable people is the main issue.
Hong Kong already demonstrated that a 3 course vaccination with a traditional vaccine is the safest and most effective for all sectors of the general population.
 

KYli

Brigadier
It has nothing to do with vaccines. China has a dozen of domestic vaccines that are waiting for approval if they are needed. The issue is always that the Chinese health care system can't cope with the rapidly spreading of covid that could result in hospitals collapsing. No vaccines can prevent this from happening.

In order to prevent massive deaths, China needs to slowly open up and keep the infections low. It is funny to see how lies about covid vaccine efficacy have become so prevalent. Westerners just blindly accepted such as facts. No wonder MSM can dictate and manipulate lies and propaganda so easier in the West.

At the moment, it is no longer viable to contain covid anymore in China. The goal is to prevent the health system from collapsing such as what have happened in Japan, Taiwan, Hong Kong, South Korea and Singapore just a few months ago.
 

Phead128

Captain
Staff member
Moderator - World Affairs
The 8-9% unvaxxed population in China should be forced to vaxxed (special exemption for allergic to vaccines which are a very minor portion) and everyone forced boosted annually.

Most of the 8-9% un-vaxxed population in China are old elderly people most at-risk of dying of COVID and hesitant to vaccines because of ignorance, uneducated, misinformation. Yet the young suffer lockdowns to accommodate these elderly ignorance and vaccine hesitancy...
 
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