What on earth is happening in China right now?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:My guess is they know something about COVID that we do not. There are going to be more and more variants that the vaccines aren't going to cover. We will be in trouble again soon. That's my guess.

Like what do they know

They know that they have a highly vulnerable unvaccinated population, and if they let COVID rip, they are big time screwed. Rock and a hard place.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My guess is they know something about COVID that we do not. There are going to be more and more variants that the vaccines aren't going to cover. We will be in trouble again soon. That's my guess.

Like what do they know

They know that they have a highly vulnerable unvaccinated population, and if they let COVID rip, they are big time screwed. Rock and a hard place.

Can anyone explain the reasoning for their approach? I just don’t see how they are ever going to come out of this.

[Anonymous]

They must save face by pretending they can control the virus. They can't. The chickens have come home to roast. Enjoy your virus China.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Scary population control

Yup. Abortion isn’t working fast enough. Covid, war, Chinese/Mexican Fentanyl.... whatever works.

300 dead Americans a day from fentanyl poisoning. It’s now being marketed to kids as candy or an adderall pill.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They must save face by pretending they can control the virus. They can't. The chickens have come home to roast. Enjoy your virus China.

Or Xi is just using 'COVID' as an excuse/cover to mess with supply chains in order to inflict pain on the US via inflation.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:They must save face by pretending they can control the virus. They can't. The chickens have come home to roast. Enjoy your virus China.

Or Xi is just using 'COVID' as an excuse/cover to mess with supply chains in order to inflict pain on the US via inflation.

They are shrinking their own economy with these zero Covid policies.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't think it is going to be as severe as we have seen the first time. Researchers and people have caught with the learning curve and the next variant is not going to be perceived as deadly.

For China, it is a different scenario though. They are hell-bent on keeping zero-covid policies and they won't open for next several years.

They've put themselves in a nearly-unescapable box.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They must save face by pretending they can control the virus. They can't. The chickens have come home to roast. Enjoy your virus China.

Or Xi is just using 'COVID' as an excuse/cover to mess with supply chains in order to inflict pain on the US via inflation.

They are shrinking their own economy with these zero Covid policies.

At this point I don’t see how this could be some big scheme to disrupt the US economy. It’s affecting their own economy too much.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They must save face by pretending they can control the virus. They can't. The chickens have come home to roast. Enjoy your virus China.

Or Xi is just using 'COVID' as an excuse/cover to mess with supply chains in order to inflict pain on the US via inflation.

They are shrinking their own economy with these zero Covid policies.

At this point I don’t see how this could be some big scheme to disrupt the US economy. It’s affecting their own economy too much.

What they are doing is making other countries want to do business elsewhere. As a consumer, I don't want to buy anything 'made in China'. Right now I have a stack of Covid tests with the label that reads "Made in China". It makes me sick to see it.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They must save face by pretending they can control the virus. They can't. The chickens have come home to roast. Enjoy your virus China.

Or Xi is just using 'COVID' as an excuse/cover to mess with supply chains in order to inflict pain on the US via inflation.

They are shrinking their own economy with these zero Covid policies.

At this point I don’t see how this could be some big scheme to disrupt the US economy. It’s affecting their own economy too much.

What they are doing is making other countries want to do business elsewhere. As a consumer, I don't want to buy anything 'made in China'. Right now I have a stack of Covid tests with the label that reads "Made in China". It makes me sick to see it.

+1. While I've always tried to buy Made in US products (I even drive a domestic car, so I really put my money where my mouth is), if I pick something up off the shelf and see Made in China, I put it back. Luckily my US gov't covid tests are South Korean, but it really galls me to see a Made in China test, as well as face masks.