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Re:2022 Letter by iopq on Sunday March 05, 2023 @12:15AM (#35027088)
From 2020 to 2021 I would have agreed with you, but after the vaccine was out Chinese citizens mostly all got it. The remaining restrictions were absolutely unnecessary and actually ineffective.

Even now, you need to wear a mask in public transit, and just to come into the country you need to take a COVID test before your flight. You get a COVID test after touching down.

But for what? That's an unnecessary expense for the traveler since nobody does free COVID tests. My girlfriend paid $140 in the US for one, I paid $50 in Korea (it would have been $80 in the airport, but I wasn't at the airport at the time)

Re:2022 Letter by pewpew2020 on Sunday March 05, 2023 @01:10AM (#35027275)
>>> but after the vaccine was out Chinese citizens mostly all got it.

When the restrictions were lifted and the cases skyrocketed, it was because people hadn't taken Sinovac. Chinese don't trust chinese vaccines. Everyone was flocking to macau to take foreign vaccines

Re:2022 Letter by iopq on Sunday March 05, 2023 @02:41AM (#35027686)
You are seriously misrepresenting what happened. The cases FIRST skyrocketed. The restrictions were still in place in October/December

The country removed restrictions when everyone already had the virus, by December I knew nobody in China who didn't already get it