China locks down city of 9 million as virus ripples across country

Haha! Keep locking down China! You reap what you sow!

A good son to the house returns !

Keep going China. Never ending lockdowns etc the only way to deal with it.

Haha! Keep locking down China! You reap what you sow!

I am floored, and not sure what to think about your statement. Both lockdown and death from covid is a tragedy on the Chinese people, don't conflate Chinese with CCP. If only they can lock all the CCPs in a room then lock them down.

On a more pragmatic level, Sinovac has proven to be ineffective long term, severe infections were recorded in ASEAN states that relied on it, like Vietnam, Indonesia, HK. The HK recent experience (severe symptoms with large number in intensive care despite fully vaxxed with Sinovac) means it would be prudent to adopt lockdown (or covid zero) until the population is vaccinated with more effective vaccines. Blame the CCP again for being opaque about their sinovac, don't blame the Chinese population.

I am floored, and not sure what to think about your statement. Both lockdown and death from covid is a tragedy on the Chinese people, don't conflate Chinese with CCP.

Xi is very popular with the Chinese public.

 Blame the CCP again for being opaque about their sinovac, don't blame the Chinese population.

I'll stop blaming them when they stop treating Xi like he's their Messiah.

For all the negative attention the proactive lockdown strategy has gotten from media worldwide, the results have certainly show their worth.

China has moved fast in recent weeks to snuff out virus clusters with a pick-and-mix of hyper-local lockdowns, mass testing and citywide closures. It reported two COVID-19 deaths on Saturday, the first in over a year.

Two deaths in over a year, while places like the US still have hundreds per day.

I get that there are economic repercussions to these kinds of lockdowns that can be very serious, but tens of thousands of lives are being saved by these measures at bare minimum. I definitely think it will turn out to be well worth the cost in the long run.

Two deaths in over a year, while places like the US still have hundreds per day.

2 deaths in over a year? Surely you don't believe this... Right?

Maybe number of deaths is linked to other factors? Obesity? General health?

And maybe 2 deaths in a year is a totally fabricated number?

Cities in China can be more congested than Japan and the standards of cleanliness in China?

Covid won’t die out there anytime soon.

Some people laughed at China's locked down strategy is naive but I can tell you the "Side Effects" of surviving the virus is still unknown, some people who had Covid has loss of some of their memories. The Omnicorn variant is just a less lethal one but the next variant might be deadly and death is inevitable.

Don't be happy too early when you laughed!

 I don’t know what the vaccination rate is in China but when you’re dealing with Omicron, I can’t think of a single state or territory that’s managed to keep it out. I would’ve thought a controlled response to outbreaks with sensible precautions such as masking up in public places would have been more sensible. Is

There is nothing even remotely funny about this. CoVid is the Number One problem facing mankind right now and this is no time to bashing other nations, not even China with their rotten totalitarian Communist regime. Nobody is to blame for it, we must all fight this together to get rid of it. And that means getting vaxxed.

elephant200Today  09:27 pm JST

Some people laughed at China's locked down strategy is naive but I can tell you the "Side Effects" of surviving the virus is still unknown, some people who had Covid has loss of some of their memories. The Omnicorn variant is just a less lethal one but the next variant might be deadly and death is inevitable.

Don't be happy too early when you laughed!

We still don't know what the long-term effects of CoVid are. Too many people are taking risks, ignoring it and lies are still being spread about. Look at the nuisance those truckers caused in Ottawa, Canada. Look at the pathetic state in the US, largely due to an irresponsible violence-inducing egotistical criminal chump. Europe and Brazil are having cases on the rise too.

Don't laugh at China. The CCP is following te best approach, even if they are oppressive bastards.

What Starts In China Stays In China!!!

Last week Chinese President Xi Jinping stressed the need to "minimize the impact" of the pandemic on China's economy, but also urged officials to "stick to" the current zero-COVID approach.

Xi is right on this, and the experts all agree on the success of this zero-covid policy. It can't be argued that China has not been successful with this approach (as was NZ and Australia).

One fact that pretty much tells the story of China's success:

China's number of cases per 100K. No other country had a lower rate. Unless you want to say Micronesia or Antarctica are countries.

https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2020/health/coronavirus-maps-and-cases/

Xi is right on this, and the experts all agree on the success of this zero-covid policy.

As the previous article already published here this is not the case, not only is the policy a black hole of resources (that necessarily causes deficits in other areas of public health, thus facilitating deaths) it is also extremely risky and according to chinese experts a time bomb that can give the same results as Hong Kong.

Minor countries have had even a greater success in controlling the pandemic without need of a zero covid policy.

Also, other countries have surpassed the death rates of China, that would mean they had a more successful control over the pandemic, surprisingly without bankrupting their countries with an unsustainable goal of zero cases.

It reported two COVID-19 deaths on Saturday, the first in over a year.

An amazingly low number. The zero covid policy is a great success in China, and was highly successful in Australia and New Zealand, according to scientific institutions, scientific experts, and anyone who can add or subtract.

virusrexToday  04:42 pm JST

Minor countries have had even a greater success in controlling the pandemic without need of a zero covid policy.

Like I wrote above, "Unless you want to say Micronesia or Antarctica are countries."

Do you want to say Micronesia or Antarctica are countries??

And for posters who want accurate information, I republish my link from above:

https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2020/health/coronavirus-maps-and-cases/

The really amazing stat is that China has a population density of almost 8 times that of NZ, and was able to have a lower number of covid cases per 100k. Incredible.

starpunkMar. 22  11:02 pm JST

Too many people are taking risks, ignoring it and lies are still being spread about. Look at the nuisance those truckers caused in Ottawa, Canada. Look at the pathetic state in the US, largely due to an irresponsible violence-inducing egotistical criminal chump. Europe and Brazil are having cases on the rise too.Don't laugh at China. The CCP is following te best approach, even if they are oppressive bastards.

Excellent points; cannot be disputed.

Like I wrote above, "Unless you want to say Micronesia or Antarctica are countries."

Buthan is not in micronesia nor antartica, and did better than China, this completely disproves what you said.

This is part of the reason why experts do not recommend the chinese approach, it is not only bound to cause unnecessary damage to the country economy and public health, it is also much more risky than what other countries that also achieved control of the pandemic have done by reacting scientifically instead of blindly following a religious ideology.

virusrexMar. 23  05:01 pm JST

Buthan is not in micronesia nor antartica, and did better than China, this completely disproves what you said.

Yeah--I'm sure the "experts" are all advocating for the world to follow the Buthan(is that really a country??) Model!

There must be tons of scientific evidence supporting the Buthan Model.

Of course, as usual, you provided no evidence.

Ok, enough--it's spelled "Bhutan".

Yeah--I'm sure the "experts" are all advocating for the world to follow the Buthan(is that really a country??) Model!

You mean as all the experts that recommend a zero covid policy as sustainable and not risky? because you said you could reference some, but even after repeatedly being asked to do it you brought exactly zero of them.

Now, where did I wrote exactly said one specific case was the model to be recommended? if you paid attention this example was brought specifically to demonstrate your statement about China was false, and as long as it exist this keeps being the case. Once you begin to focus on spelling mistakes you are simply making sure others understand you have no actual argument to defend your point.

Still waiting for those experts you said you would bring.