Shanghai Quietly Shuts Down Schools, Bars, Gyms as Covid Returns
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I'm not defending Xi's government, but preventing spread and acknowledging modern germ theory in public policy actually works.
Isn't this exactly what numerous US conservatives were advocating for?
Are you equating this with the public policy choice to impose lockdowns?
BUT
It stopped the spread in its tracks unlike the US and Europe who kept spreading for a year and a half. After a few months, most of China went back to normal. Wuhan itself is maskless with hospitals working under a normal load. The lockdowns worked.
Lockdowns and cat act tracing works, but only if everyone participates. Unfortunately it got political instead of following the science. Many preferred to let their fellow citizens die rather than wear a mask and stay at home when possible.
Authoritarianism is a horrible thing, but it has it uses during a viral pandemic.
Wuhan for example began its lockdown in Feb 2020 and ended it Apr 2020. There was a brief, limited lockdown in July of this year, but that's it.
Folks in China were able to freely mingle, eat out, etc. long before the West did. Reducing transmission is certainly not the only consideration, but the economy and public life are better by actually dealing with a deadly virus quickly than pretending it will just magically go away and dragging out its effects for two years (and counting).
Approximate US death stats via CDC, influenza vs covid-19:
2018-2019 - Influenza 34,200
2019-2020 - Influenza 25,000
2020-2021 - Influenza 700 - Covid 350,831 (Lockdowns in effect)
2021-2022 - Influenza 1,700 - Covid 771,000 (Vaccines available/lockdowns lifted)
But by all means, explain how Covid-19's IFR is just 1.5x that of influenza. Please provide evidence from reputable sources that can reconcile these numbers.
If influenza deaths had been counted in prior years the way Covid deaths were counted, they would have been far higher than the figures you cite.
Bloomberg here licking the CCP's Boots: "Shanghai Quietly Shuts Down Schools, Gyms, Bars as Covid Returns".
More accurately: "CCP imposes lockdown upon serf population in Shanghai".
It’s a wonderful game that came out this year about a city that’s on permanent lockdown. All the humans are gone, but the AI and drones just continue to keep the city “safe” from a virus that has long since vanished.
Also you play as a cat.
> All the humans are gone
I think I see the problem :)
These boosters are for the original strain (the one from November 2019), as well as BA.5, the one responsible for the June/July spike here in the USA. So we should, theoretically at least, have broad exposure and protection from whatever hits us in December/January.
Its hard to keep up with mutations, but I'm willing to bet that those vaccinated vs two different strains will have a better immune system compared to those who only have immunity to one strain.
All three major strains for 2022 were Omicron, Omicron BA.4, and Omicron BA.5. So the virus seems to have "settled down" upon the Omicron branch of its evolution, suggesting that the next strain will be another variant of Omicron.