That's why I think it's ironic that once the virus basically becomes non-threatening, China has to enter the same type of lockdown as other countries did two years before. And that's why I'm sharing this.
China is in roughly the same position, apparently their vaccine isn't as good as the mRNA ones, but it still provides protection and again they've had the time to get most people vaccinated before omicron passes through, they'll be better off because of it
In Europe, a lot of travel remained possible although it wasn't advised. People work with work permits could relatively easy cross countries too during lockdowns.
The worst that happened was at the start, that people had to stay within their neighborhood for a while, but that changed pretty quickly.
Currently, Omicron is no threat anymore for vaccinated people. So I'm not sure why china would go into lockdown. Vaccine underperforming?
( Belgium)
Omicron likes the bronchi more than the lungs, which translates into a lot less pneumonia cases. That is the reason why so few people die of Omicron.
The lag was because a lot of those people left in body bags. And the ones who survived left in pretty bad shape.
Omicron may not be as fatal percentage-wise, but it's still plenty fatal and a LOT more contagious so it's got numbers on its side.
At least we were lucky enough to get to a high vaccination rate before Omicron started, it’s super infectious.
I got it despite 3 vaccinations and always masking up outside with KN95. But very mild which I guess was the point.
Because of the many lockdowns before, this was the strategy of the government, any more lockdowns would guarantee change of government next election.
This is the way.
Vaccinate the population as much as possible, then pursue super immunity for what's to come via exposure to this luckily less severe and highly contagious variant while the vaccines are still potent.
Unless you're saying we should purposefully infect everyone at the same time. I don't have a better answer, but I don't like pretending that this will magically improve just cuz everyone gets sick once.
AIUI lasting immunity is most robust through exposure to the virus after vaccination. Greater than booster shots.
Interesting, but could you really express any other opinion without fear of repression of some kind, while living in china?
Are you sure, the thought of "getting caught" does not influence your opinions?
Because I think, it would influence my opinions I would dare to share.
But I am ignorant about actual way of life in china, is it common and maybe even somewhat normal for tech people to have this freedom to just connect outside of the great firewall?
I would be amazed if the MSS decides to respond to these random pseudonymous comments I posted on HN/Reddit/Twitter, in English. I expect that talking to them about my shitposts in English (and then coreced into signing an "agreement" that I won't do it again), would be an exciting and entertaining experience :p ofc I might be outliers
> But I am ignorant about actual way of life in china, is it common and maybe even somewhat normal for tech people to have this freedom to just connect outside of the great firewall?
Well, Google is blocked. Baidu or Bing isn't nearly good for random tech queries. More importantly, even though not blocked, GitHub / DockerHub etc is painfully slow in China due to some misfortune about how China is connected to the global Internet. Without a tunnel I just can't work efficiently.
Every corps I worked for in China so far provided free Internet access for employees (at least engineers).
* https://madeinchinajournal.com/2021/07/15/will-there-be-a-ci...