Originally Posted by
travelinmanS
As an aside, I'm finally starting to hear some rumblings of discontent from my Chinese friends here who were very pro-government Covid policy for the last 2 years. It seems to me that the policies that discourage or outright ban returning to their home town for the Spring Festival for a 2nd or 3rd year in a row is getting many people to re-consider the wisdom of this zero Covid. In addition, now that they have started to lock people into shopping malls or their apartments in tier one cities for a few days just for having breathed the same air as a suspected close contact, there is additional pushback against such measures. Maybe things will slowly start changing if the discontent keeps growing.
If there’s one thing that makes absolutely zero impact on the policy of the Chinese government, it’s the grumblings of the 0.1% of people in China whole have a realistic viewpoint of the severity of covid and covid policies. The moment you have a billion people who are disgruntled by covid policies, there might be a point. But 99% of Chinese people are fed a CCP curated abomination of reality about what’s going on in China and the outside world. They are happy to strap on their masks all day, flash QR codes all day, and take their covid tests every 2 days and never dream of crossing an international border.
For instance, when I explain to Chinese colleagues that I have had covid and every single person in America that I’m friends or family with has had covid with symptoms well aligned to a moderate cold, they look at me like I am a ghost. And they insist that my organs are permanently damaged.
China CCP has full grip of its people and covid.
The fact that normal people are still trying to fly here cracks me up.