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It's not because people are asking to be opened up, but China has become more and more difficult, and it turns out that before the opening up, the virus has already begun to spread on a large scale.  The Chinese government just shifted the responsibility to the protesters, you are the Chinese government's epidemic prevention policy from one extreme to another
R of 16. >

The world cup is over mate R16 was a couple of weeks ago >

Yep and France got a mystery flu too. >

Omassi variant >

I live in Nanjing. My girlfriend and I are just now recovering from Covid. Both our parents have gotten it. Basically every friend we know have too. 
We self tested at home, and self quarantined, so I don't know if the official numbers would count cases like us. >

Is it a new strain or just so populated there? >

Their vaccine is mediocre, their vaccination rates are low, and they have a massive population. They’ve been living on borrowed time. It was gonna blow up sooner or later.
Edit: They’ve also been constantly locked down, so much of the populace hasn’t been exposed to all the variants like we constantly are. >

Overall it is less effective than most vaccines is the point. >

People on here keep making it seem like it's useless.
Also only the mRNA ones, it's similar to AZ and JJ because all 3 use traditional technologies. >

Who knows how many people have already died in China. Same as India where they gave up trying to count. We will probably never know. >

unless they're hiding the bodies, massive amounts of cremation and such would show up (at some point in the future). It's pretty hard to hide this many coffins. >

I mean, they have almost a decades worth of concentration camp experience. I'm sure they know how to hide the bodies. >

China are not going to be hiding anything, I speak to people in China every day, everyone knows what is going on. Unlike before, the Chinese people demanded this easing of the restrictions, so the Chinese government will not feel the need to cover things up, they will see themselves as responding to the demand of the people and any consequences are on them.