> ..as in just pushing some deaths a few months in the future
I don't get the impression that the people in charge, or the people not-in-charge in China, agree with this assessment.
I.e. to quote from the thread
> If you're telling Chinese "Omicron can't be beaten" it's a hard sell because the West has been telling us COVID can't be beaten for two years- and most provinces here already have beaten Omicron.
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> being extremely inconvenient for everything and everyone and damaging to the global economy
As above, to again quote from the thread I linked
> Most Chinese have experienced few significant restrictions in the last two years due to COVID-Zero, fast lockdowns, and mass testing done at under 100 cases. The first time we hear about something new being tried- straying from that, it's an unforgivable human rights catastrophy.
> We've been basically living a normal life for two years while we watch the rest of the world meltdown in a furnace of exceptionalism, overconfidence, and science denial. It's going to very, very hard to convince Chinese that we're doing it wrong.