https://www.cnbc.com/2022/02/07/chinas-zero-covid-policy-will-not-work-with-omicron-epidemiologist.html

China is “uniquely at risk” to omicron, Osterholm said, for a combination of reasons: Early studies suggest its Sinovac and Sinopharm vaccines are “not very effective” against the variant, and at the same time China’s success at preventing the spread of Covid so far means it has a very large population that remains vulnerable.

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My favorite part of this particular brand of “China collapse” articles is that no one seems to care to offer a solution. Instead, they demand China abandon an effective strategy and doom a sizeable chunk of their population to certain death. All so that these fucking ghouls can sit on a pile of Chinese skulls and say “I told you so.”

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“ China’s success at preventing the spread of Covid so far”

Mask slipped oopsie

Edit: wait I found something that melts even more of my brain matter:

“China, which recorded its first omicron case in January, has doubled down on its zero-Covid strategy, in contrast to the growing number of countries that have shifted to living with the virus and lifting restrictions. Many of those countries use proven vaccines and have already experienced waves of infection — two major ways that populations establish antibodies to the virus.”

Maybe spread those proven vaccine blueprints for starters dickheads

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They’re talking about it like it’s a good thing to experience multiple waves of a pandemic.

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They seem to think it’s good for them. Not that it means it’s good for the rest of us

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There’s a show called The Great that’s a fictionalized history of Catherine the Great where one of the Serfs gets pox and the courts response is to just throw all the serfs in a bonfire and burn them because “we can’t have it getting into the palace”

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“So far”…they make it seem like it’s been two months and not two fucking years lol

Five years from now, “surely China’s zero covid policy won’t be able to stop the Zeta-7 variant”

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The US is sure hoping for a lot of innocent people to die huh

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It seems like that is at least part of the motivation for protecting the mrna vaccine patents on top of hording vaccines.

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water is wet

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implying that westerners have natural herd immunity, that herd immunity works, and that sacrificing immunocompromised people is an acceptable price for it

:jokerfied::zizek-preference:

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the west increasingly humiliated and desperate for China to get sick

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broke: “sick man of Asia”
bespoke: “sick man of earth” :amerikkka: :kkkanada: :ukkk: :aus-delenda-est: :france-cool: :germany-cool:

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Why not shambling zombie of the earth?

Let’s make zombies more like Romero’s origonals and an allegory of the decaying husks left by capitalism instead of the stand in for waves of immigrants fascist dickstroking zombie stuff has become.

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:doomjak:

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