April ~9 was when the true gauntlet dropped, and with almost no warning at all.
You had about 6 months of warning if you were paying any attention to China outside your delusional Shanghai expat bubble.
The elderly are the most vulnerable, their vaccination rates are low, and they are highly valued (Confucian traditions, wisdom, taking care of family, etc). I can respect this thinking
absolute BS, if they gave a single crap about the elderly they would help them by supplying MRNA vaccines and proper medical infrastructure. Did you see how many geriatric elderly they rounded up onto buses for covid concentration camp.
[mod edit] No offense, but Shanghai expats were some of the most falsely confident people I ever interacted with. [mod edit]