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  Their zero-COVID policy was ridiculous, but doing a full u-turn into “whatever” is even more stupid!
  Do they have any idea what they are doing?! Or do they only care about their image?!
context: "We screwed up everything and now we're lying." >
  
  Blame the protesters >
  
  I think that's part of the plan. It's like malicious compliance on a super scale. 
  Just so this time next year everyone can say 'damn I'll never question the government again, we should have stuck with zero covid'. 
  But also the economy was dropping like a rock. The protests really gave them an excuse to drop zero covid. >
  
  So Covid is directly controlled by the CCP? Also people fail to realize that China is not a autocratic state. Xi is not the emperor. China has a similar government to the US in some regards in that many of the Covid policies were enacted on a provincial level, similar to the Covid policies in America being on the state level. Only difference is China is a one party state so basically everyone agreed rather than the back and forth blue vs red Covid hoax shit we had here. Obviously a one party state has downsides but that was not one of them clearly. Also there was no economic collapse. The Yuan was booming and has been for the past 2 months. I don’t even know where the whole collapse thing came from. It seems like every month there’s a new headline “CHINA COLLAPSING”. This whole thing about the Chinese government wanting to have some sort of malicious compliance thing happen is ridiculous. If that’s true, than Fauci must’ve done the same thing when recommending you can stop isolation at 5 days and return to work. >
  
  china is a dictatorship >
  
  Well damn it’s a pretty successful one then >
  
  I think it’s more a case of not being able to quantify it, when you are estimating upwards of 37 million cases a day, how do you maintain accurate data? There would be millions infected people not included.
  I really do wonder how many have died and are still dying from Covid in China, given how weak their vaccines apparently are.
  I mean I’m fairly fit and healthy, played soccer most of my life, served in the military, go to gym, etc., had my 3rd Pfizer jab and when Covid finally got me this year, it was fucking rough, I felt like I had one foot in the grave. >
  
  I had Sinovac and my covid symptoms lasted for 3 days. Symptoms were mild, it was rough but bearable. 
  I've known people who took Pfizer but suffer serious symptoms. What's for sure is that none of the vaccinated people died from covid from my social circle. The ones are that died are the ones who refuse to vaccinate. >
  
  How many people do you know who died from it? I don't know anyone. >
  
  The biggest red flag is probably from Hong Kong. 
  They always gave a lot of details about covid deaths including age and gender of each deceased person. They also gave vaccine status too. 
  However they never declared which vaccine they had. Which made people suspicious that it was very one sided data and they didn't want to cause a panic. >
  
  Now that's the solution! If I can't see you then you can't see me either, right? >
  
  Lmao a brilliant nerd back in early 2020 figured out that their publicly available case numbers almost perfectly aligned with a mathematical equation. He questioned because the situation seemed far worse than what was being claimed.
  So he started looking at their economic data and it was virtually the same story. Yeah, China’s not very honest at all. If they can lie about something to make their situation look better, they absolutely will.
  Wish I could buy that guy a beer, that was crazy to see. >
  
  Do you have any link to this as I'm curious to read about it?