ryan cooperDec 20, 2022
it’s an absolute bloodbath in China https://news.sky.com/story/crematoriums-guarded-by-police-as-china-fights-to-hide-true-toll-of-failed-zero-covid-policy-12771420
Crematoriums guarded by police as China fights to hide true toll of failed zero-COVID policy

Sky
Show threadryan cooperDec 20, 2022
"I’m reading things from friends of mine in Beijing, and 80 to 90 percent of the people they know already have COVID. If that figure is transferred to elderly people it’s just going to be a catastrophe." https://prospect.org/world/what-now-for-china-kurlantzick-interview/
What Now for China?

A conversation with Joshua Kurlantzick of the Council on Foreign Relations, a Prospect alum

The American Prospect
Show threadryan cooperDec 20, 2022
"several models predict that a half million people could die, possibly more." h/t @stephenjudkins https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2022/12/15/1143002538/china-appears-to-be-facing-what-could-be-the-world-s-largest-coronavirus-outbrea
COVID spreading faster than ever in China. 800 million could be infected this winter

Scientists predict China will see the largest COVID surge of the pandemic this winter, with hundreds of millions of people infected. But some experts say that it could have been even worse.

NPR
Show threadryan cooperDec 27, 2022
really fucking bad https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/27/world/asia/china-covid-hospital-crisis.html
‘Tragic Battle’: On the Front Lines of China’s Covid Crisis

Medical staff are outnumbered and working sick as the nation’s health care system buckles under the strain of a spiraling crisis.

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All right, I hate to ask a stupid question like this, but when did we forget that China was a totalitarian dictatorship? Was it the Bush administration when they saw all the profit potential?
Dec 27, 2022 at 11:47pmWeb