Why is China engaging in zero tolerance covid restrictions?

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brycejones

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WelshBloke said:
I mean there's lots to criticise about Apple but Musk is definitely not in a place to do it. Or republicans, unless they want to start a constructive debate on the failings of capitalism.
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That sounds like commie chinese pinko talk.
 
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fskimospy

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WelshBloke said:
I mean there's lots to criticise about Apple but Musk is definitely not in a place to do it. Or republicans, unless they want to start a constructive debate on the failings of capitalism.
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I agree! China wields untoward influence on all sorts of companies. Of course if you don’t like that then you might not be happy with Elon Musk owning Twitter as China has him over a barrel.
 
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brycejones

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fskimospy said:
I agree! China wields untoward influence on all sorts of companies. Of course if you don’t like that then you might not be happy with Elon Musk owning Twitter as China has him over a barrel.
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That and how much of his Tesla business is in China and they can use that to leverage him as well.
 
cytg111

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My paranoid alter ego says its probably drills for when the big one hits.
 
trenchfoot

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Maybe China has decided to try the Trump method of defeating Covid. Worked really well here in the USA what with only ~400K Americans dying from it while he was in office and those hundreds of thousands of other deaths that followed due to his catastrophic mismanagement and politicizing of the disease . /s

edit - corrected stupid grammar mistake.
 
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brandonbull

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Muse said:
It's virtually 3 years in. Why is covid such a thing in China now? Are their vaccines that bad? The story's huge today, it's a major story, massive protests, subjugation. The stock market took a big hit (1-1.5% drop in US major indexes).

Biden said a couple months ago or so (likely a misstep) that the pandemic was over. It's not over, but there aren't riots in America now (that I know of) about covid restrictions. The vaccines, masking and built up immunity from infection have things currently sort of under control in the US. In China it's nuts. What's really going on?
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Fortunately for the US, the left hasn't gained enough power to perform Chinese like restrictions. We came very, very close to being under the type of subjugation that the Progressheviks dream of.
 
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brandonbull

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tweaker2 said:
Maybe China has decided to try the Trump method of defeating Covid. Worked really well here in the USA what with only ~400K Americans dying from it while he was in office and those hundreds of thousands of other deaths that followed due to his catastrophic mismanagement and politicizing of the disease . /s

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Because Fauci and the other people of science were so correct about the Covid pandemic? Looking back, Trump and other people promating "horse" medicine look like science based geniuses when compared to the Covid narrative pushed by the Democrats.
 
WelshBloke

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brandonbull said:
Because Fauci and the other people of science were so correct about the Covid pandemic? Looking back, Trump and other people promating "horse" medicine look like science based geniuses when compared to the Covid narrative pushed by the Democrats.
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No they still look like idiots. The West's minimum lockdowns and make a big push to get an effective vaccine out to as many people as possible policies look pretty vindicated when you compare them to anywhere else's.
Yup there were things that could have been done a lot better but the overriding principle was proved to be correct.
 
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Muse

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IGBT said:
Correction:
You do realize that CNN (Crank News Network) lies to you for a living and these people are privately laughing at how gullible you are, right?

Seriously - CNN (Crank News Network).. media has nothing but contempt for you. They think you are stupid. Are they right?
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You come here looking for a whipping, you gonna get one. :rolleyes:
 
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brandonbull said:
Fortunately for the US, the radical right hasn't gained enough power to perform Chinese like restrictions. We came very, very close to being under the type of subjugation that the white supremacists dream of.
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FTFY

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brandonbull said:
Fortunately for the US, the left hasn't gained enough power to perform Chinese like restrictions. We came very, very close to being under the type of subjugation that the Progressheviks dream of.
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Its funny, but its your delusions that poses the best argument against a free world - a free world that enables you to spout this idiocy in the first place. The rest of your countrymen is trying to have their cake and eat it too - while constantly getting instigated by the “we’re the reasons you cant have nice things” crowd (yes, thats you)
 
Muse

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Lead article on front page of The New York Times at this moment.

This link should work for 14 days, i.e. until Dec. 18, 2022:

www.nytimes.com

The Chinese Dream, Denied (Published 2022)

The world’s harshest Covid restrictions exemplify how Xi Jinping’s authoritarian excesses have rewritten Beijing’s longstanding social contract with its people.
www.nytimes.com www.nytimes.com
 
Jaskalas

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fskimospy said:
Right? Like I really thought China would be better at this. You're an authoritarian state, one of the benefits is you're supposed to be able to coerce people into doing things like getting vaccinated!
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Not if they have rotted their brains by getting drunk on ultra nationalist BS and the Vaccines were made by "others".
Imagine MAGA, but in Asia.

And the reason it is afflicting China is that the party is the victim of this line of thinking, not the powerless citizens.

The one consistent thread you'll see in ALL of humanity, is irrationality. Because we are not rational actors.
 
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eelw

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Jaskalas said:
Not if they have rotted their brains by getting drunk on ultra nationalist BS and the Vaccines were made by "others".
Imagine MAGA, but in Asia.
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But it actually is MAGA for this younger generation. They oddly support the orange monkey. Like I get it, compared to China iron fist, the lure of “US freedom”. But what crappy news coverage do they get that paints the orange monkey in a good light that they’d support him?

Similar to all the migrants. I wonder if they could walk to Canada, would they still choose the US?
 
sdifox

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The current loosening is hilarious. No greencheck to take public transit, but you need it to enter/exit buildings...

Testing Companies are selling PCR test membership lol. As in buy the membership for unlimited PCR test...
 
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