Internal contradictions? Contradictions with the outside world? I sort of completely missed the boat on the how and why of this but it has piqued my interest.

    • glimmer_twin [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      Poor economic growth means not being able to improve the living standards of the Chinese citizens. Yes, saving lives are important, but what is the point if China’s economy slumps and threatens to reverse the policies that helped eradicated poverty?

      I feel like it’s worth pointing out that change the language a little and that’s not far off something we would hear from our capitalist masters.

      • FourteenEyes [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        Because it was always the case that lockdowns cause economic slowdown and damage to established supply chains. The point was supposed to not let the virus have a chance to mutate into what it is now and sort of put things on pause, but we fucked it up and now zero covid is de facto non viable because people do in fact need to work for things to be produced and we can't pause the entire world for three years because we're still recovering from the half-assed lockdowns that didn't last long enough nor were they strict enough to help with covid but did fuck up economic status quo

        The point was for the government to manage the emergency and wait for the virus to die down but instead they prioritized the health of corporations

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          4 months ago

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    • anoncpc [comrade/them]
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      2 years ago

      Also more and more peoples got tired and agitated because of lock down, that led to low morale and more non compliance. With the spread this fast, the govt doesn’t have much choice. Sure they could slow the spread, but with the rate of the spread, I think that half ass solution gonna bring more pain than just speed run it while building more emergency capacity and train more nurses

      • Sidereal223 [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        Yes exactly, people who ask why they didn't try to manage the opening rather than let-it-rip don't realise how quickly it spread even with lockdowns. Where I was living in Hangzhou, in the weeks leading up to the opening up, I could hear about a new place being locked down nearly daily, and cases were still continuously rising during this period.