Will China abandon its zero Covid policy? For now it seems they are determined to stay the course and hope for the best. They continue to claim there have been zero Covid deaths. There are increasing signs the people are not happy about the situation, especially in Shanghai. At some point something has to give, but after one types similar sentences enough times perhaps things can be kept going for quite a while before that happens. Or it could happen on Tuesday.
"Emory blocks social media access for students who fail submit proof of a booster. This seems great on two fronts. One, it is probably good for the students. Two, it makes clear that this is pure vindictiveness and punishment, and does not pretend to be something else. Good policy."
Distressing news coming out of Shanghai. My partner can attest to the Weibo shenanigans being true, I remember her explaining it to me at the time. Very disappointed that updated vaccines aren't being funded still and shocked that doctors haven't even heard of paxlovid.
However, as I was reading it, this comment striked me as oddly American:
"So there was a mass shooting on a New York Subway platform in Brooklyn, which caused a bunch of very expensive train delays and a lot of emotional damage from people who did not know anyone who was anywhere near that Subway platform because we’ve trained a generation that such things are traumatic."
If something like that happened here (Spain), people would be shocked simply out of basic human empathy and a broader sense of community. But it seems that in America, the only first world country where things like this happen regularly, people should just cope and not give a shit about it if they weren't the ones being shot.
It strikes me that the worst possible thing that could happen to China is for this lockdown to actually somehow work. That just means they'll have to do the whole thing over again next time.
In other news I had covid last weekend. Very anticlimactic.
"Emory blocks social media access for students who fail submit proof of a booster. This seems great on two fronts. One, it is probably good for the students. Two, it makes clear that this is pure vindictiveness and punishment, and does not pretend to be something else. Good policy."
You're totalitarian scum.
The most relevant and prescient commentary out there—thank you.
Distressing news coming out of Shanghai. My partner can attest to the Weibo shenanigans being true, I remember her explaining it to me at the time. Very disappointed that updated vaccines aren't being funded still and shocked that doctors haven't even heard of paxlovid.
Great post as always, thank you.
However, as I was reading it, this comment striked me as oddly American:
"So there was a mass shooting on a New York Subway platform in Brooklyn, which caused a bunch of very expensive train delays and a lot of emotional damage from people who did not know anyone who was anywhere near that Subway platform because we’ve trained a generation that such things are traumatic."
If something like that happened here (Spain), people would be shocked simply out of basic human empathy and a broader sense of community. But it seems that in America, the only first world country where things like this happen regularly, people should just cope and not give a shit about it if they weren't the ones being shot.
It strikes me that the worst possible thing that could happen to China is for this lockdown to actually somehow work. That just means they'll have to do the whole thing over again next time.
In other news I had covid last weekend. Very anticlimactic.