It’s especially sad and enraging because it took a lot of sacrifice to do what China has accomplished. But if the rest of the world isn’t also attempting to control covid, then their efforts are weakened.
Like, the west needs to be sharing covid vaccine IP and sending technical help to the global south so they can make and distribute their own vaccines - beyond just actually taking control of this pandemic emergency at home, they have obligations abroad.
Yeah. I live in NZ which was the very best of the COVID responses [that aren’t Asian] but then we just gave up almost randomly and now we have the highest transmission rate among the developed world
We made a lot of early sacrifices and now it feels like it was for nothing . We deserve being lapped by China but it still hurts
I live in Taiwan and we gave up for no reason as well. The only 2 possibilities is that the US forced us, or capitalists are worried about commercial real estate prices.
For real I’ve considered moving to China. They’re air quality is going to be better than ours in the future as they have a tremendous amount of nuclear and other forms of green energy coming online.
Ours started to pick up steam with a popular ex Prime Minister writing something about “opening up the economy” and now everywhere is experiencing labour shortages and people don’t want to go shopping because they might catch the plague.
Do you get special preference for moving to China? I’d love to do that myself but no connection or education
