It’s a bit weird, isn’t it. I suspect one target is to “prove” that the vaccines are super effective at saving your life if you have cancer. Also, a certain number of people have to die otherwise the CECC lose their whole raison d’etre. You can’t declare a pandemic and invoke emergency laws if nobody’s dying or getting seriously ill.
They seem to be calibrating things so that the death rate looks a gnat’s todger larger than typical flu deaths. I guess that allows them to simultaneously claim that COVID is immensely dangerous, and also that their reign of error has been a complete success.
It still cools down a bit. So, whatever theory you want to believe (sputum lingering longer in the air/people mingling closer) still works, albeit for a shorter period of time than other countries.
That wouldn’t be too surprising, given that if you die of cancer or a heart attack some guy apparently might show up with a swab at any point within the next seven months to check whether you had COVID.
I don’t know, is that exceptional? I honestly thought influenza deaths would be off the chart at this point. I’m surprised this hasn’t happened yet. Obviously, I will be very pleased to be proven wrong.
Apparently in China, a Covid death is now defined as one where the deceased had tested positive and death was from a respiratory illness, such as pneumonia ONLY (ie - long term illnesses such as Cancer, coupled with a positive test don’t count as a Covid death) . On that basis, the Taiwan death toll would be down to single digits and even zero on some days.
China has whiplash from going from COVID is worse than the Bubonic Plague to “COVID, what COVID?” CCP’s cynicism about this transition is stunningly transparent.
Nothing like a bit of mulling to brighten one’s day!
I’m just wondering on what basis the CECC think they have legal authority to do anything like this, or whether they care about such niceties. Their proposed action has nothing whatsoever to do with controlling any epidemic (which - perhaps they’ve forgotten - is their sole mandate) and indeed has nothing to do with disease. It’s entirely an economic/social glitch, and hardly an important one. Next thing we know they’ll be mulling the permissible colours of those squishy silicone things with battery-operated motors, because COVID.
Is this something they changed recently, or have they been doing it for a while?
