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Their "apply huge hammer any time there's been a case or two somewhere" strategy has worked thus far. Sure, they are probably not telling the whole truth about whatever epidemics there have been, but it's unlikely that COVID has actually passed through their society in a big way, like in, say, India; they're still virgin territory, and the reason has been their COVID strategy. There have been spates of large-scale authoritarian measures, but at some point COVID has then gone away, for a while.
Of course there's been a lot of countries that have applied a hard strategy until it was decreed that Covid has evolved to a status where nothing works any longer in keeping COVID out completely, or almost-completely; it's conceivable this simply is the point where China has to admit the same, though that won't stop them from trying for quite a bit.
COVID passed through their society in 2018 and served as an immunity buffer for the wuhan variant as did most of southeast Asia
the reason has been their covid strategy despite other countries who didn't use their covid strategy with far more reliable numbers and still had similar outcomes in the first year
and other countries which did use their strategy and with far more reliable numbers and it failed spectacularly
your causal statement is simply unsupported
I haven't encountered this claim before. Can you point me to some sources?
why are all your sources! demands seemingly one-sided?
I would actually like to read about it as well. It's a claim I've never heard before and would like to know more. Not to dunk on you. I was against lockdowns from day one. For libertarian reasons mostly. Although now I've realized a few more things about them. Namely that they're historically unprecedented and they don't work as far as any viruses are concerned.
That's fair. Maybe I'm too used to other lower quality websites (and posters) and I shouldn't bring that here. In most of the internet, demands for sources without demonstrating any effort has been put in is a flag the person is playing effort games as opposed to open to genuine dialogue.
Because of the response I received to some of my posts in this thread, I'm working on a submission or top level comments with linked evidence and a filled out argument. When/if I post it, I'll tag some of the users in here who asked for more.
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Why didn't it pass through the entire world, then?
Which countries?
Which countries?
it did with the epicenter being in southeast Asia
Japan
Italy
Is the support for your causal statement only that reported Chinese numbers were low post frothing at the mouth, people dropping dead in the streets videos?
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