All socialist states took it seriously, not just China. The DPRK outright closed its borders. Vietnam mobilized the entire nation to deal with lockdowns and development of test kits. Cuba was among the first to finish developping a vaccine.
New Zealand get praised for its low causalties, but if you look at its per capita numbers, it comes away worse than any socialist state. None of them as isolated as NZ, or as rich.
You’re right that Cuba and Vietnam also responded seriously, but what I mean is China was the only one that had a zero COVID policy. As a result, their per capita numbers were the best in the world (among countries that have adequate ability to test, anyway). Being a country of over a billion people gives their tremendous success a lot more weight. No disrespect meant to Cuba, Vietnam, or DPRK.
DPRK is too unique to really compare to other countries anyway. They could isolate as much as New Zealand, no one else could reasonably lock down like that because that’s a direct product of their nation being under siege for essentially its entire existence.
If New Zealand is the bunker nation of billionaires, DPRK is the people’s bunker nation.
AES governments are actually democracies, for better and for worse. See, the USSR liberalizing their economy in the late Soviet period, largely due to public pressure.
They’re under immense pressure to stop masking and testing, both externally from countries demanding they open up their economies and internally from citizens who have been tricked by the rest of the world into thinking COVID isn’t dangerous after vaccination.
I’m sympathetic towards the inability to continue, it just shows that they aren’t yet strong enough to totally defy the market forever.
On the bright side, at least when bird flu spreads from milk drinkers in the US they’ll be ready to go right back into lockdown.
“normal” except a new, relatively easily preventable longterm immune disorder is going around, causing different kinds of organ failure, reduced mental capacity, chronic fatigue. even the mostly useless WHO still classifies it as a pandemic, plutocrats still mask and test - governments that have given up caring about it are not doing right by the working class.
All socialist states took it seriously, not just China. The DPRK outright closed its borders. Vietnam mobilized the entire nation to deal with lockdowns and development of test kits. Cuba was among the first to finish developping a vaccine.
New Zealand get praised for its low causalties, but if you look at its per capita numbers, it comes away worse than any socialist state. None of them as isolated as NZ, or as rich.
You’re right that Cuba and Vietnam also responded seriously, but what I mean is China was the only one that had a zero COVID policy. As a result, their per capita numbers were the best in the world (among countries that have adequate ability to test, anyway). Being a country of over a billion people gives their tremendous success a lot more weight. No disrespect meant to Cuba, Vietnam, or DPRK.
DPRK is too unique to really compare to other countries anyway. They could isolate as much as New Zealand, no one else could reasonably lock down like that because that’s a direct product of their nation being under siege for essentially its entire existence.
If New Zealand is the bunker nation of billionaires, DPRK is the people’s bunker nation.
it shakes my faith in AES governments that all these places seem to have given up on mask mandates, testing, and air quality 😢
AES governments are actually democracies, for better and for worse. See, the USSR liberalizing their economy in the late Soviet period, largely due to public pressure.
They’re under immense pressure to stop masking and testing, both externally from countries demanding they open up their economies and internally from citizens who have been tricked by the rest of the world into thinking COVID isn’t dangerous after vaccination.
I’m sympathetic towards the inability to continue, it just shows that they aren’t yet strong enough to totally defy the market forever.
On the bright side, at least when bird flu spreads from milk drinkers in the US they’ll be ready to go right back into lockdown.
Vaccines have been produced and improved. People could not take the lockdowns anymore. So things returned to normal.
“normal” except a new, relatively easily preventable longterm immune disorder is going around, causing different kinds of organ failure, reduced mental capacity, chronic fatigue. even the mostly useless WHO still classifies it as a pandemic, plutocrats still mask and test - governments that have given up caring about it are not doing right by the working class.