Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

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So this really isn't an attempt at pushing a conspiracy theory but can anyone logically explain China's seemingly ultra tough approach to Covid at the moment?

Is it simply a question of different mixes of variants and vaccines? As in they can see the UK and the rest apparently progressing well in these circumstances.

Whether we think the virus was deliberately leaked or not there seems a very strong consensus it was a government engineered product in Wuhan - so the Chinese know more about it than anyone (and for longer).

Mix in the countrys indifferent relationship with its media and the idea of democracy and accountability - so why are they seemingly wrecking their economies for the odd case?!
 
Charlie Sweet said:
So this really isn't an attempt at pushing a conspiracy theory but can anyone logically explain China's seemingly ultra tough approach to Covid at the moment?

Is it simply a question of different mixes of variants and vaccines? As in they can see the UK and the rest apparently progressing well in these circumstances.

Whether we think the virus was deliberately leaked or not there seems a very strong consensus it was a government engineered product in Wuhan - so the Chinese know more about it than anyone (and for longer).

Mix in the countrys indifferent relationship with its media and the idea of democracy and accountability - so why are they seemingly wrecking their economies for the odd case?!
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Is there? Most recent studies I’ve seen this year are still inconclusive, and point to the need for more data and more investigation of varying hypothesis. A lab leak is, and has always been, a possibility, but there’s nothing conclusive here (yet) and don’t see any consensus on this at all.
 
Charlie Sweet said:
So this really isn't an attempt at pushing a conspiracy theory but can anyone logically explain China's seemingly ultra tough approach to Covid at the moment?

Is it simply a question of different mixes of variants and vaccines? As in they can see the UK and the rest apparently progressing well in these circumstances.

Whether we think the virus was deliberately leaked or not there seems a very strong consensus it was a government engineered product in Wuhan - so the Chinese know more about it than anyone (and for longer).

Mix in the countrys indifferent relationship with its media and the idea of democracy and accountability - so why are they seemingly wrecking their economies for the odd case?!
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Honestly I'd venture its as much to do with control of its own citizens as covid itself. When you have an authoritarian government and (allegedly) a red/green system for many parts of society, you'd probably find a a correlation between dissidents (or even those who have posted against the government online), and the colour red.

Maybe resistance was getting too much
 
efcfanwirral said:
Honestly I'd venture its as much to do with control of its own citizens as covid itself. When you have an authoritarian government and (allegedly) a red/green system for many parts of society, you'd probably find a a correlation between dissidents (or even those who have posted against the government online), and the colour red.

Maybe resistance was getting too much
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Yeah maybe but isn't it really damaging their economy as well?
 
Haydn said:
I suspect that the treatment and care he is receiving, may just be a tad better, than that available to us via the NHS.
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heard he's on paxlovid, a medicine Fauci said made his situation worse the other week
 
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