Originally Posted by STS-134

If there are entry problems, then that is an admission that the quarantine process is not working.


Pissing off your own people is never a "win" for the country in the long term. At some point, people reach a breaking point where they won't tolerate any more crap and they overthrow the government. China has a history of one dynasty replacing the overthrown one, but the people also have a history of waiting until stuff gets so bad that they have to violently overthrow the government instead of having an orderly transition. And that's what happens when you allow the government to get away with so much crap in the first place.


Saw one of my Chinese friends today and he said he heard some woman (a PRC citizen with a US green card) had her green card cut when she was trying to leave. Her daughter, who has a US passport, could have left, but is too young to fly by herself.


And even if they somehow do get to zero because of a miracle, the cost of doing this keeps getting bigger and bigger each time.