Tuesday, 15 February 2022

Why the World Needs China’s Covid-Zero Policy

quote [ Those concerns are real—there are serious economic, fiscal, and human costs from the attempt to halt the spread of Covid within China, and these could get worse if outbreaks continue to spread.

But in truth, these risks to both China and the rest of the world pale next to the human and economic toll if the country were to abandon Covid zero, allowing the virus to spread more or less unchecked among a population of 1.4 billion people that, despite an impressive 87% vaccination rate, are highly vulnerable. ]

Meanwhile, in the US...

There Is Nothing Normal about One Million People Dead from COVID - Scientific American

wsbgnl on Twitter


“Slavitt: "Look, I don’t think they [elected officials] want to say that but I do think that implicit in this is an acceptance that there are going to be, at least in the US, 200 to 250,000 deaths a year at baseline." https://t.co/fsSODsRfEE”


New York, Illinois latest Democratic-led states to halt COVID-19 policies


Three people briefed on the decision told the New York Times that New York Governor Kathy Hochul will end the state's strict masking guidelines for businesses.


Covid will always be an epidemic virus — not an endemic one, scientist warns


Covid-19 will never become an endemic illness and will always behave like an epidemic virus, an expert in biosecurity has warned.

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[by steele]
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ENZ said @ 10:47pm GMT on 9th April [Score:-5 Troll]
Tell me steele, why the hell you view the draconian hellscape of China as the example that the rest of the world should be following? Why should we be literally sequestered in our homes indefinitely in fear of a virus with a less than 1% fatality rate that's getting milder and milder with ever passing mutation? Answer me goddamnit? When did you become such a bootlicking statist cunt?


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