Originally Posted by
kb1992
Does the Kingdom have an Exit strategy of COVID, after so many self-inflicted wounds?
From Sinocism:
On Thursday [April 21 2022] the city government announced it will “carry out nine major actions to clear community-level transmission from April 22nd, and strive to realize the clearing community-level transmission in Shanghai as soon as possible". Included in those 9 actions are more lockdowns, testing, and quarantining. The local officials are increasingly stressed about getting the situation under control.
Really the government is trying to ensure social stability over everything else. I honestly think they are not too concerned about the case numbers because they have an extremely high threshold of "dying from Covid" (i.e. it needs to be the main cause of death, but many deaths of people with covid are attributed to something else)*. As long as people aren't
too upset, no reason to change anything.
* source:
https://www.vice.com/en/article/3abm...-toll-lockdown
What would be annoying is that the wave ends at some point (either naturally or through more underreporting of case numbers) and then borders are still closed, because of some silly reason. Like what Hong Kong is doing.