China eases controls, gives no sign when ‘zero COVID’ ends
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December 5, 2022 at 4:28 PM - Views: 14 #499155
BEIJING (AP) — China is easing some of the world’s most stringent anti-virus controls and authorities say new variants are weaker. But they have yet to say when they might end a “zero-COVID” strategy that confines millions of people to their homes and set off protests and demands for President Xi Jinping to resign.
On Monday, commuters in Beijing and at least 16 other cities were allowed to board buses and subways without a virus test in the previous 48 hours for the first time in months. Industrial centers including Guangzhou near Hong Kong have reopened markets and businesses and lifted most curbs on movement while keeping restrictions on neighborhoods with infections.
The government announced plans last week to vaccinate millions of people in their 70s and 80s, a condition for ending “zero-COVID” restrictions that keep most visitors out of China and have disrupted manufacturing and global trade.
That spurred hopes for a quick end to “zero COVID.” But health experts and economists warn it will be mid-2023 and possibly 2024 before vaccination rates are high enough and hospitals are prepared to handle a possible rash of infections.
All in all, I’d rather be in Ohio.
Never let your morals stop you from doing the right thing.--Isaac Asimov
The United States is also a one-party state but, with typical American extravagance, they have two of them.--Julius Nyerere
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December 5, 2022 at 5:54 PM #499159
He mentioned something that I had not thought about – when the West incites and/or infiltrates demonstrations, we all pretty much assume that now, and it is mostly true. But that assumption takes attention away from the people who started demonstrating in the first place, and their very real issues.
America is not a country, it's just a business. (Brad Pitt, Killing Them Softly)
"Sometimes when I try to understand a person's motives, I play a little game. I assume the worst. What's the worst reason they could possibly have for saying what they say and doing what they do? Then I ask myself, 'How well does that reason explain what they say and what they do?'" Baelish
VFTBNMW is, IMO, literally "take the blue pill".
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December 5, 2022 at 9:42 PM #499171
The government is supposed to insure harmony. The people demonstrated disharmony. The government acknowledges their grievances and slowly and thoughtfully starts making changes to address them, thereby acting to keep the Mandate of Heaven.
Even authoritarian governments can be responsive to popular protest, to secure their own rule if nothing else.
Never let your morals stop you from doing the right thing.--Isaac Asimov
The United States is also a one-party state but, with typical American extravagance, they have two of them.--Julius Nyerere
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