The Covid outbreak is 'extremely grim' but NOBODY died...

[dalton99a]

https://apnews.com/article/covid-health-business-beijing-china-de689add02078039790563d0bdbb0beb

COVID outbreak ‘extremely grim’ as Shanghai extends lockdown

BEIJING (AP) — The COVID-19 outbreak in China’s largest metropolis of Shanghai remains “extremely grim” amid an ongoing lockdown confining around 26 million people to their homes, a city official said Tuesday.

The director of Shanghai’s working group on epidemic control, Gu Honghui, was quoted by state media as saying that the outbreak in the city was “still running at a high level.”

“The situation is extremely grim,” Gu said.

China has sent more than 10,000 health workers from around the country to aid the city, including 2,000 from the military, and is mass testing residents, some of whom have been locked down for weeks.

Most of eastern Shanghai, which was supposed to reopen last Friday, remained locked down along with the western half of the city.

Shanghai recorded another 13,354 cases on Monday — the vast majority of them asymptomatic — bringing the city’s total to more than 73,000 since the latest wave of infections began last month. No deaths have been ascribed to the outbreak driven by the omicron BA.2 variant, which is much more infectious but also less lethal than the previous delta strain.

[orwell]

1. I used to defend China...

...recent events have made it so that I don't believe a word they say about anything.

They have gone from an interesting experiment in hybrid "free market" communism to a pariah authoritarian state in less than a decade.

In the end, Xi will likely be seen as the beginning of the downfall of modern China.