China just can’t get away from lockdowns, it seems.
The city of Yiwu, a major manufacturing center, is undergoing a “quasi lockdown” after four fresh cases of COVID were detected on August 2. Schools, cinemas, bars, and other indoor gathering places have been closed until further notice. Additionally, outsiders are being highly discouraged against visiting the city “unless necessary”.
The ban on outsiders is particularly disruptive to Yiwu’s economy, which is home to a number of manufacturers and exporters, as well as being a prime e-commerce hub.
Yiwu, which is also a Chinese e-commerce and livestreaming base, has been hard hit by China’s strict Covid-19 control measures. Prior to the pandemic, about 560,000 overseas merchants visited Yiwu every year to talk business deals and place orders, but this flow dried up after China closed its borders. Zhang Yaoyao, a suitcase merchant in Yiwu, was quoted by Jinhua Daily as saying that it was impossible for clients to visit the city currently.
These temporary lockdowns are having a permanent impact on Yiwu’s ability to do business. Zero COVID now will result in Yiwu having zero customers later on.
What exactly does Chyna expect to accomplish with this? I could sorta understand "Zero Covid" policies in island nations like New Zealand and Australia before vaccines were available; they were hoping that once vaccines were widely available the pandemic would be over and they could avoid it entirely with those policies. But it's been obvious for a solid year now that the so-called vaccines do not work; i.e. they don't prevent people from getting infected, and they don't prevent people from spreading the virus. That means "Zero Covid" makes zero sense. Unless of course Chyna has some ulterior motive for this that we don't understand...?
One theory I have heard, although I am uncertain of it's accuracy, is that China has not built up any cross immunity from the prior strains of the virus, and with their domestic vaccines not effective against the newer Omicron strains, they have no resistance.
If that theory is correct, China gets to choose between lockdowns and the black death.
If that theory is not correct, the lockdowns are just a symptom of xi Jinping's megalomania.
I don't see Omicron being the "black death" even with no prior immunity. My son recently got it from his GF as a 30th birthday present. He's un-jabbed and hasn't had any previous variant. It was a bad cold, or maybe a very mild flu.
So the only way that would make sense is if the whole, inactivated virus vaccines they've pressured their population to take causes ADE, but I think we'd know that by now, since there are plenty of other countries where those vaccines were also widely used that don't have "Zero Covid" policies, and I haven't seen any reports major problems.
Certainly what we have seen outside of China does not amount to even a true pandemic.
However, I recall during the original Wuhan lockdown that social media was rife with speculation that China's crematoriums could not keep pace with the death toll. The media has largely forgotten the early China story on the virus, but for a time the outlook inside China was considerably more grim than outside China.
Why Xi Jinping refuses to bend on Zero COVID is a mystery. Regardless of the reasons, the results are crystal clear: economic ruin and little or no containment of the virus.
What exactly does Chyna expect to accomplish with this? I could sorta understand "Zero Covid" policies in island nations like New Zealand and Australia before vaccines were available; they were hoping that once vaccines were widely available the pandemic would be over and they could avoid it entirely with those policies. But it's been obvious for a solid year now that the so-called vaccines do not work; i.e. they don't prevent people from getting infected, and they don't prevent people from spreading the virus. That means "Zero Covid" makes zero sense. Unless of course Chyna has some ulterior motive for this that we don't understand...?
One theory I have heard, although I am uncertain of it's accuracy, is that China has not built up any cross immunity from the prior strains of the virus, and with their domestic vaccines not effective against the newer Omicron strains, they have no resistance.
If that theory is correct, China gets to choose between lockdowns and the black death.
If that theory is not correct, the lockdowns are just a symptom of xi Jinping's megalomania.
I don't see Omicron being the "black death" even with no prior immunity. My son recently got it from his GF as a 30th birthday present. He's un-jabbed and hasn't had any previous variant. It was a bad cold, or maybe a very mild flu.
So the only way that would make sense is if the whole, inactivated virus vaccines they've pressured their population to take causes ADE, but I think we'd know that by now, since there are plenty of other countries where those vaccines were also widely used that don't have "Zero Covid" policies, and I haven't seen any reports major problems.
Certainly what we have seen outside of China does not amount to even a true pandemic.
However, I recall during the original Wuhan lockdown that social media was rife with speculation that China's crematoriums could not keep pace with the death toll. The media has largely forgotten the early China story on the virus, but for a time the outlook inside China was considerably more grim than outside China.
Why Xi Jinping refuses to bend on Zero COVID is a mystery. Regardless of the reasons, the results are crystal clear: economic ruin and little or no containment of the virus.
Pure madness!