It was two months of mounting terror, a few months of recovery as the city’s economy figured out how to get through the two month stop, and then … business as usual (almost).
There’s been no Omicron outbreak beyond a couple of small incidents in cities where foreign interactions occur. Delta caused a step-up of control procedures and a district shutdown in Wuhan for a couple of weeks in the summer of 2021, but that went away and the only impact on most people while it was on was a return of the QR scans for contact tracing. Which went away rapidly once the dozen (!) cases of Delta were brought under control.
Xi’an was a bit of a clusterfuck. (NOTHING in comparison to the Great North American clusterfuck or the Great European Clusterfuck, mind…) It seems, however, that lessons got learned and better handling is at hand for future outbreaks.
Basically, the NYT (and the western world in general) is intent on showing that China is living a Hellish life because they don’t want to admit that the vaunted forces of capitalist societies not only failed, they pratfalled while wearing clown pants. It’s China Misery Porn, only it’s even less plausible a portrayal of Chinese life than porn is a portrayal of positive human sexuality.
Still is very bad in many western countries ; wave after wave we act to late … we do not learn. USA is even worse : decaying.
We cherish individual rights ; with covid it’s at the expense of society.
i see China, Australia and a few others doing much better, (because), they took stong mesures rapidly.
i hope you well. Hopefully, it will be another one hundred years before the next pandemic.
The only area in which Australia is outdoing the USA at the moment is in vaccination proportions. But in behavioural terms, they lost their fucking minds in December and are reaping the expected results. All the work they put into keeping themselves safe (by western standards) blown in an orgy of selfish stupidity that shows no signs of ending.
It was two months of mounting terror, a few months of recovery as the city’s economy figured out how to get through the two month stop, and then … business as usual (almost).
There’s been no Omicron outbreak beyond a couple of small incidents in cities where foreign interactions occur. Delta caused a step-up of control procedures and a district shutdown in Wuhan for a couple of weeks in the summer of 2021, but that went away and the only impact on most people while it was on was a return of the QR scans for contact tracing. Which went away rapidly once the dozen (!) cases of Delta were brought under control.
Xi’an was a bit of a clusterfuck. (NOTHING in comparison to the Great North American clusterfuck or the Great European Clusterfuck, mind…) It seems, however, that lessons got learned and better handling is at hand for future outbreaks.
Basically, the NYT (and the western world in general) is intent on showing that China is living a Hellish life because they don’t want to admit that the vaunted forces of capitalist societies not only failed, they pratfalled while wearing clown pants. It’s China Misery Porn, only it’s even less plausible a portrayal of Chinese life than porn is a portrayal of positive human sexuality.
Still is very bad in many western countries ; wave after wave we act to late … we do not learn. USA is even worse : decaying.
We cherish individual rights ; with covid it’s at the expense of society.
i see China, Australia and a few others doing much better, (because), they took stong mesures rapidly.
i hope you well. Hopefully, it will be another one hundred years before the next pandemic.
Australia is currently doing worse than the USA and has been for several weeks now, ever since January 4th. You might be thinking New Zealand.
i am a month late on Australia !
… like you say it is worse than USA but it’s going down at least 😌
Not for long.
The only area in which Australia is outdoing the USA at the moment is in vaccination proportions. But in behavioural terms, they lost their fucking minds in December and are reaping the expected results. All the work they put into keeping themselves safe (by western standards) blown in an orgy of selfish stupidity that shows no signs of ending.
Let’s hope Omicron was the last & little (minimal) re-infection happens,
take care
While the rat-lickers in the western world continue to hold sway over politicians and policy, there will be more variants and more re-infections.