Sometimes I look at the total cases in China and then I just take a huge drink and say nothing
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.
Sorry, but testing for a communicable disease and quarantining people who might have it is authoritarianism.
:this-is-fine:
A covid testing worker told me (and was mentioning to other people there) that “some people were saying” that the vaccines are why it’s becoming super transmissable and vaccine resistant
