November 30 of this year I reported on the dangers of the Chinese policy of strict isolation of Covid infected citizens (Zero Covid). As I wrote in that earlier blog I did not expect the government to cave to the rioters demands. But on December 7th I read (in the Economist) that they did! They have rescinded all or most of these restrictions.
The predictions made in the earlier blog of wider infections in the vulnerable Chinese population now seems prescient. Indeed the Economist reports today that Chinese Covid infections are already rising. The fear of rapid evolution of perhaps more virulent strains or variants arising in this massive, now as a result of the abandoned lockdown policy a highly vulnerable 1.4 billion population —is very real.
Our circumspection and wariness of signs of new potential Chinese outbreaks should be treated with greater understanding than that of the last pandemic and its terrible threat to the entire world
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