This article doesn't even attempt to capture the magnitude of what's about to happen to death numbers, case numbers, Chinese productivity, worldwide recession, further global supply chain issues and worldwide inflation.
Other sources are talking about a billion infections and 1-2 million deaths by spring.
The only allusion to that in this article is that deaths are expected to peak by January 31.
I'm doing back of the napkin math based on that and even if the number of infection so far has been covered up, it's not unrealistic to expect 500,000,000 infections in the next roughly 90 days. 6 million infections per day average, with peak seeing 20+ million infections.
I'm not a doomsdayist. And I don't even find these numbers scary. The other news article I read has the IFR at 0.1-0.2% ( 1-2 million dead out of 1 billion infections.
But for the world economy? Going to be a hell of a 2023, regardless of how many deaths the CCP decides to count.