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Re:My Taipei Quarantine by stefan_ on Thursday April 28, 2022 @04:02AM (#31189897)
This seems to be the agreed upon uniform story between the various Chinese posters: it's not the strategy, it's the incompetent local Shanghai officials! It's neat, they used the same thing in the UDSSR many times.

But it seems unless you bring the China-style lockdown to every other part of the world outside China, it will just keep happening over and over again.

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Re:My Taipei Quarantine by DiogenesKynikos on Thursday April 28, 2022 @10:42AM (#31193065)
This isn't just hindsight.

As Shanghai's case numbers steadily rose and the government did nothing, I was telling friends that the result would be a disaster.

What really worried me was when Shanghai announced that they were so economically important that they couldn't lock down. That convinced me that they had given up on zero-CoVID and were adopting the Western "living with the virus" approach, without fully admitting it to the public.

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