Originally Posted by
gudugan
From Sinocism:
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.
Borders have only gotten closed tighter from 2020 to 2021 to now in 2022 where they require 4 separate Covid tests over a week just to get on the plane which you now have to pay $9000 for an economy ticket to China.
The message is quite clear. China wants to shut itself off from the world. I hate this since I’ve based my career and life here for the last 20+ years, but it’s a reality I’m beginning to accept.
We are not ever going back to 2019 levels of access to China for both people and foreign businesses, unless there is a change in leadership. The current guy seems like he’s happy to bring China back a few decades as long as he’s the guy running the place.