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Is that now just a saving face exercise of the government? They are usually not the types to sacrifice economic growth over peoples health.
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No idea.. I'm "guest teaching" online at the tech university there in so far as a group of masters students are doing industry experience with my company learning the ins and outs of consensus mechanisms.
I did ask the question in a call earlier and these students usually speak pretty freely but because the entire city is "working from home" there are widespread Internet capacity issues in apartment buildings so we had to abandon the call because nobody could hear a word that anybody else was saying!
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Is that now just a saving face exercise of the government? They are usually not the types to sacrifice economic growth over peoples health.
The economy is in tatters, so actually it's quite handy to have an excuse like this ("we did it for the health of the people, not like in the evil west where they let all the old people die"). On the plus side, the government has learnt that you need to give people food if you're going to lock them in their homes.
Lots of cities in full lockdowns in China right now and it's very hard to leave your city even if you're not in a lockdown. In Shanghai we're still having covid tests (PCR tests) every 72 hours, and teachers/students have to have them every 24 hours. So there's one part of the economy that's booming...
Stonehedge
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All of my colleagues in Chengdu are in lockdown again. City of 16m people not allowed to leave their homes because of 200 positive tests.