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Agreed that nothing is perfect.

BUT

If lockdowns, masks, physical spacing, etc. “do not work”, as some of our resident experts on JT allege, why is China finding them a necessary tool and continuing to have success with them? Could it be that we actually need to ride this virus hard for a while longer?

All epidemics do come to an end one day, after all.

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They already have anti-virus for their citizens.

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nandakandamandaToday  03:54 pm JST

Agreed that nothing is perfect.

BUT

If lockdowns, masks, physical spacing, etc. “do not work”, as some of our resident experts on JT allege, why is China finding them a necessary tool and continuing to have success with them? Could it be that we actually need to ride this virus hard for a while longer? 

That position would have to assume the Chinese government is telling the truth about what's going on there. Which is a longshot.

But it is still possible, if large numbers of Chinese have some latent immunity carried over from the SARS-CoV-1 virus.

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Going and returning to Japan means free Covid testing - in my case 3 times.

It is a pity that it isn’t easy to get a test in Japan without paying through the nose for it though…

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Pardon? These two statements are contradictory.

Not quite, but so close it might as well be. Something not being easy is different to something being impossible. That said, I'm not sure what the OP was getting at.

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P. Smith.

Fair call. I don’t think the post is clear enough either way.

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I believe our friend was pointing out that returning to Japan is the only way of getting a free test (or two or three), while if one wanted to get a test while being in Japan that would cost a fortune (though the government was ‘considering’ making tests affordable). Contrary to China where if you happen to walk through an area where cases where confirmed your phone immediately gives you an alert and indicates you where to report for testing.

Looking at the figures both ways seem to be working well to protect citizens from the pandemic. [sarcasm off]

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Chickens coming home to roost - the return of Chinavirus hurting the perpetrators. They must be worried as they've just built a 5,000-beds permanent facility for the purposes of isolating outbreaks, added to which they've finally realised their Sinovac vaccines have been totally ineffective.

Add that hemorrhagic fever to the mix and you realise what a nice place it must be....

Never mind, they'll still manage to super-spread it again with their Games and New Year travelling.

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Yes, the same terrifying videos are coming out of China just in time to send the west into a tizzy again.

And the same automatons are going to fall for it.

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nandakandamanda

If lockdowns, masks, physical spacing, etc. “do not work”, as some of our resident experts on JT allege, why is China finding them a necessary tool and continuing to have success with them?

I do not know who here said that masks and spacing "do not work", but also I wonder why you think that China has "sucess" with whatever they are doing? Because the CCP says so?

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Add that hemorrhagic fever to the mix and you realise what a nice place it must be...

Large numbers of cases of hemorrhagic fever is a seasonal problem in northern China. This happens every year in late fall into winter. I suspect Covid-19 will, like the flu, become a seasonal problem all over the world.

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