Re:Tell HN: China Is Entering Lockdown
by garbagetime on Sunday March 13, 2022 @05:33AM
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>The exit strategy has always been opening up again, after delaying and preparing
Does anyone know of solid evidence to back up this statement?
What else could it possibly be? The country can't keep the borders closed forever, which means opening up again, and pursuing Covid-zero until vaccination happened is obviously going to save lives. I think we would have delayed a bit further if possible, to get more people boosted, but Omicron has forced this timing.
Re:Tell HN: China Is Entering Lockdown
by garbagetime on Sunday March 13, 2022 @07:18AM
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I can think of various alternatives but I'm not interested in getting into that discussion. I'm interested in when the earliest point in time was that the NZ government communicated (either internal communication or external communication) that its plan was to prepare as best as possible and then open up.
I'm in NZ. It's more like multiple years of mostly normal life, while we got vaccination rates up high. The exit strategy has always been opening up again, after delaying and preparing, and that's in progress as we've now given up on containing Omicron, and currently have about 20k cases per day (well, more, as that's hitting limits of testing capacity). Graphs and numbers here: https://interactives.stuff.co.nz/2020/05/coronavirus-covid-1...