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Originally Posted by jfman
If there is the collective will it can eliminate it as demonstrated by countries who had in their own domestic population. The absence of collective will globally, and availability of vaccines, has changed the game.
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I don’t think you have taken in the hostility of populations to continual lockdowns under the Zero Covid approach, such as in Australia, where the government has acknowledged it got it wrong and should have concentrated on vaccinations as a means of controlling the virus.
This is what you get when you have the zero tolerance approach, as is the case in China.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business...sk-warns-mark/
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China's zero-Covid strategy is at risk of derailing the global economy and driving up inflation, the former Bank of England Governor Mark Carney has warned amid fears of mass factory closures in the run-up to Christmas.
He urged the Communist country to reconsider its approach to Covid after a handful of cases triggered the shutdown of entire cities and pushed the world’s second biggest economy towards recession.
Mr Carney told an LBC podcast that China will have to “evolve or pivot” towards managing the disease through vaccinations, adding: “There are real economic consequences of a hard, zero Covid policy that is maintained.”
Mark Williams, head of Asia at Capital Economics, said China was at risk of a technical recession after the summer shutdowns wiped an estimated 5pc off its economy between July and September.
Mr Carney, who is now the United Nations' climate change envoy, said that a failure to change course would have serious global consequences given China's role as the world's workshop and biggest exporter of goods.