Again, call me a sceptic or even politically biased from where I'm from or the views I expressed I held in the past (and still hold).
But in terms of breaking Covid Zero I still have to see it to believe it.
I turned around on China containing Covid, initially not believing they have contained the outbreak, until I have received multiple assurances from people I know in addition to reported news that this was happening. This of course then became Covid Zero.
So if the state wants to tell me now that they're reversing on that I need to see the following:
1) Far more flights into and out of China
2) The HK-Mainland border reopened
3) Reports from the ground not just of cities reopening, but towns not becoming locked in
3a) I don't have a lot of contacts with people outside of cities - it will be a bit of hearsay from those that do.
Otherwise, it may be a case of - the country is reopening, but just not here.
Plus, can they really do a city vs country divide? I doubt it. Unless I see 2m die, I don't think they're serious. I don't wish ill on other people - but - this is the butcher's bill that is outstanding.
HK paid a bill of 11K deaths when we lost it - hospital patient rooms filled with corpses - before we are where we are now. And our public health system is presently more effective than any city in Mainland.