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  who owns reddit
  
  Advance Publications?
context: They seriously weren't using this before?
  It's like step one for high risk patients >
  
  C-C-P leadership purchased, imported and vaccinated themselves with 5000 Pfizer jabs as soon as they could back in 2021 and screwed the rest of the nation. >
  
  
  and screwed the rest of the nation.
  
  *still screwing.
  They won't get off the Sinovac train.  Even though the West, which had effective vaccines (Sinovac was marginal, at best), they freely admit that with the new strains that have developed, the 1st gen don't cut it.  Xi won't admit this, god knows why.  So, they double down on Sinovac, lockdowns, etc. >
  
  
  Xi won't admit this, god knows why.
  
  Hard to justify being an authoritarian when you get it wrong. >
  
  How could you say that, when he was clearly just reelected in a free and fair system? >
  
  Yeah, how can you say that without the Weibo-police immediately del... oh wait, this is Reddit. >
  
  On Monday, Chinese state media CCTV quoted President Xi Jinping as saying the country needed a more targeted health strategy to protect people's lives as the Covid situation in China changes. >
  
  It's a combination of factors in case of Pfizer. Yes nationalism is an issue but they also want complete immunity in cases from any side effects of the vaccine
  Plus the vaccine needs ultra cold storage which wasn't the case for AstraZeneca or local made vaccines (at least in the Indian case ) 
  Plus the vaccines imported would be costlier compared to the ones made in China or local countries
  Ofcourse this is not to takeaway any advantages that the Pfizer vaccine has but there are 2 sides to every issue >
  
  
  Plus the vaccines imported would be costlier compared to the ones made in China
  
  Well...yeah...but they also actually work, which seems to be the ultimate deciding factor here. >
  
  Yes in this case they are more superior but I was just discussing alternative reasons as mentioned above >
  
  Beijing has been trying real hard to push their traditional Chinese medicine for many years now. The problem with TCM is that it literally doesn’t work. Medically, it’s complete nonsense. Still, they put it above western medicine for ideological reasons. >
  
  It's partly the TCM and partly their insistence on Sinovac / Sinopharm vaccines instead of Western jabs. >
  
  Can the buy vaccines from Pfizer or moderna if they wanted to? No idea how that works >
  
  Nope. I have friends in different parts of China and despite having access to personal high-end doctors they can't get Pfizer or Moderna despite trying for months. Most of them have had covid in the last month. Almost everyone at their firms has also had covid in the last 30 days. It's almost like they are speed-running it. Unfortunately, if you're over 65 and have some sort of issue you have a high chance of not making it. It is a shame how many grandparents have been lost recently. I've researched trying to ship them something from here but getting through customs is..... an issue. >
  
  If I were more cynical I would suggest a correlation between a significantly weaker economy and the advantage of having a lot less mouths to feed that contribute little to said economy. >
  
  That is imo unlikely. For three years, not only are their narratives about protect the elderly, they also shifted more resources to the elderly than they should, to the point young people were asking "what about us", and began lying flat and not upholding the economy.
  They likely just didn't have a plan whatsoever.
  Youth of China were under tremendous pressure from news that the retirement funds hit new peaks despite bad economies, that covid treatment in Wuhan doesn't favor young people first, from TV show hosts and officials talking about youth should take low paying jobs to boost the economy, that housing prices should remain high to give incentives for youth to work harder, etc. >
  
  I just think it's odd that China draws the line at mandating vaccines. One-child - ok. Shooting protesters, ok. Selling organs from political prisoners: why not? Genocide: it's on the table. But requiring obstinate old Chinese to get a lifesaving shot? Perish the thought, we're not monsters!! >
  
  My only guess is they don't want to set themselves up where they fail. All those other points they've been quite successful. Getting people vaccinated? Doubt they could succeed on a reasonable time frame. While stockpile vaccines when you have zero covid? >
  
  My guess is that due to the fact that the older population tend to be staunch supporters of the CCP, they don't want to upset them by mandating vaccines. 
  Also they've stoked the traditional medicine fire too much to now go back and say that they actually need real medicine. >
  
  Fair on that point though I'd argue the support of CCP, or at least nationalism, is big among younger folks. Seeing 30 years of fantastic growth that you grew up with would make you a believer. Fair points though, especially on the traditional medicine. >
  
  The implication that young people understand as much or are that appreciative is pretty funny.
  Yea, sure, they're not slaving away on a farm doing hard labor.  Instead, they're a recently graduated worker who can't find a job because of a shrinking white-collar job market that is due to government policies like driving away foreign employers, destroying the tutoring sector, crushing their own big-tech companies, etc.  They're a lonely and desperate young man who can't find a wife because of the imbalance between the male/female populations created by the one-child policy.  Alternatively, they might just not be able to get married because owning a house is often seen as a requirement for marriage and housing prices are out of reach.  Maybe they're a one-child policy single child saddled with the pressure of needing to take care of 2 aging parents.  Maybe they're a young couple who can't afford to have a kid because of the cost of doing so.
  Young people in China have gotten fucked in the ass by the CCP. >
  
  I never said the US was better or different.  I was close to editing in that young people everywhere are getting fucked in the ass.
  But, to humor your misplaced sarcasm, when you look at youth in America, they're much less blindly patriotic than older people.
  You link Noam Chomsky saying that the US is the greatest threat to world peace to most young people and their response would be "yea, no shit."
  If you ask them if America is #1, young people will more accurately point out that America is indeed not #1 in many metrics.
  The older generations that got to live the American dream would obviously be patriotic about it.  Most young people will tell you that dream is dead. >
  
  Not point on US. It was that you can draw similar, valid criticisms to other nations. Read the article - if you are having issues with paywall open incognito. 
  We can do better than Noam Chomsky on criticism of America. That's a given if he's in the picture. A given like him denying a Cambodian genocide or two lol. >
  
  They are over confident with lock down and testing but neglected in vaccination and treatment. It is time to swallow the bitter pill. >
  
  Lockdowns should have been rolling kind of like in the US. Flatten the curve better than 0 Covid quarantine 1.4 billion >
  
  Annnnnd they’re gonna re-open the borders and drop the quarantine. Eeeesh >
  
  Beijing doing what Beijing does best.. Propaganda.. Nevermind the independent journalists that disappear all the time and are forgotten about.. Nevermind the recent protests just weeks ago..Tiananmen Square never happened.... right..... >
  
  And guess who owns reddit