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You can loosen all the restrictions you want but it don’t matter if people are hospitalized or at home from COVID.
It's kind of difficult to do well when half of the workforce is out due to covid. >

And damage has been done, alternative countries are being sought. >

This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 74%. (I'm a bot)


Beijing - China's manufacturing activity contracted sharply in December for the third month in a row, according to official figures released Saturday, despite Beijing's loosening of Covid restrictions at the beginning of the month.
On December 7, Beijing abruptly loosened pandemic restrictions, but despite that, the country is still struggling to recover due to a surge in Covid cases.
"In December, due to the impact of the epidemic and other factors... China's economic prosperity has generally declined," NBS senior statistician Zhao Qinghe said in a statement.


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“Despite” or “because of”? >

Good!
We need more countries adopting a degrowth mindset like this if we're going to have any chance of keeping ourselves from going extinct due to climate change. >

Whoooosh