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Re:No one died in China of Covid since April 15th 2020 by 18237198371q on Monday January 10, 2022 @08:52AM (#29874740)
Short term zero COVID may be achievable. I am not disputing that. However, China must maintain vigilance literally forever. That is why I don't find it a realistic policy.
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Re:No one died in China of Covid since April 15th 2020 by zarzavat on Monday January 10, 2022 @09:13AM (#29875044)
China was becoming insular even before COVID. One gets the impression that the Chinese government finds COVID to be a convenient excuse to control the population in ways that would have been unthinkable before.
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Re:No one died in China of Covid since April 15th 2020 by tjpnz on Monday January 10, 2022 @09:29AM (#29875297)
I give it another month. Hosting the Winter Olympics is guaranteed to bring in some Omicron where at which point it'll all be over, regardless of the precautions they have in place.
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Re:No one died in China of Covid since April 15th 2020 by sudosysgen on Monday January 10, 2022 @10:29AM (#29876300)
Nothing prevents them from turning the Olympic village into a quarantine ward, so to speak.
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Re:No one died in China of Covid since April 15th 2020 by tjpnz on Monday January 10, 2022 @10:32AM (#29876351)
That covers the athletes but not the volunteers. I suspect that's what was driving the case numbers up during the Tokyo olympics.
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Re:No one died in China of Covid since April 15th 2020 by sudosysgen on Monday January 10, 2022 @10:59AM (#29876778)
No need to have volunteers. Seems like it would make more sense to have paid staff for everything, and pay them for a 2 week quarantine before going back to normal society. It can be done.
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