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A ‘Zero Tolerance’ Covid-19 Policy in China Leads to a Dystopian Nightmare

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There are some alternative "conspiracy" theories about what the Shanghai lockdowns are really about:

- 1) It's a disguised embargo on delivering goods to western countries to worsen inflation and supply chain issues to cause wreck in our economies

- 2) It's policing on the Shanghai population because it was too westernized

Or perhaps they know something we don't:

China has a bioweapons program. The initial lockdown in Wuhan came from the very top. There was no similar reaction to SARS or MERS. The fact that a comprehensive lockdown was ordered in Shanghai means one thing only: the leadership is afraid.

My alternative theory: Leadership is extremely incompetent. Playing the hard guy plays better in Beijing than the smart guy.

Are you saying the West is dependent? As in the opposite of Free?

We can check with Hillary Clinton to see what she thinks on the issue:

https://twitter.com/ChathamHouse/status/1390284424806289410#...

What would you pick? - A slow and growing endemic with a huge death and economic toll or a short but ruthless restrictions for a 2-3 weeks? I'd pick the latter any time! We saw how better China fared compared to the rest of the world so far!

I don't think the issue is the lockdown in itself or it being much more severe than anything that was done in other countries.

It seems to me like the real issues revolve around the mis-management of availability of basic goods such as food and medicines.

And another common critic is that such strict lockdowns while surely working for the original strains of Covid-19 seem to be much less effective with the recent more infective variants.

As a side note, it has IMHO still to be seen how much China fared better than other countries.

Are you saying covid will just go away once the lockdown is over?

No, unless this is done globally at once, which is never gonna happen as people lack discipline and the ability to make small but meaningful sacrifices. But it's also in animals now, so, yeah, won't be easy, but half-ass measures are useless, I believe.

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