I live in locked-down Shanghai – here’s what life is like

Re:I live in locked-down Shanghai – here’s what life is like by blagie on Wednesday April 20, 2022 @11:06AM (#31098007)

Locking 10 people up temporarily to save one life (and multiple people from disability)? Yes it is.

Not Western norms, but norms.

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Re:I live in locked-down Shanghai – here’s what life is like by NicoJuicy on Wednesday April 20, 2022 @01:08PM (#31099966)

You do know there are vaccines now?

Ps. Locking a couple of million is more appropriate, not 10.

But they are grouping together to get tested for COVID ( and getting it then, it seems)

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Re:I live in locked-down Shanghai – here’s what life is like by blagie on Wednesday April 20, 2022 @02:09PM (#31100784)

Vaccines effectively prevent death and hospitalization. Their impact on other after-effects is more limited. That's especially true for the Chinese vaccines.

At this point, we're even starting to understand why. A lot of the after-effects seem to come from early in the progression of the disease, before the adaptive immune system activates. Loss of small, which is a proxy for a lot of neurological impacts, comes before the vaccines does anything (unless you have still have antibodies, which is just a few weeks after the vaccination).

A lot of people in the original Wuhan infection are still suffering after-effects. I think China is basing their policies on that, but that's speculation.

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