I'm pretty sure also that Fox didn't call all their foreign correspondents home to attend this event, so it would seem Joe is guilty of spreading disinformation.
meanwhile in China... they're never going back to normal and their government is using this as a power grab aren't they?
I wouldn't put it past them, but I keep asking, to what end? They want a docile and productive population; keeping everyone locked in their homes achieves the opposite of both.
Not to get too tinfoil hatty but I'm suspecting there is a connection to a financial crash. Evergrade stock trading has been halted for well over a month and that company is big enough to wreck the global economy, not to mention all the things happening across markets right now. War causing major food disruption. The global economy is blowing up and it might be easier to continue control rather than tamp down on an angry populus. Total theory. Just what my brain has connected with all the news stories I read. China is being proactive rather than reactive.
Are you referring to things in the US and Canada? From everything I've seen, experienced, and read, it was no more than the government acting in the interest of the welfare of the people. What china is doing, like in the video, is what some people like the far right were afraid of -- dare I say almost hoping would happen under biden so they could go all gravy seals -- but the reality is that we all live in a very privileged society and were, at worst, inconvenienced during covid.
Any government is going to do as much as they think they can get away with before the general population kicks them out on their asses. China has two things working for them, in general the population was raised to trust the government has their best interest in mind and their system insulates them from being answerable to the people at the level ours does. We on the other hand American's are raised being fed a steady diet of distrust in governments. The extremes always in a tug of war to have the rest of us land in the middle. I honestly think the fervency of some of the anti mask anti lock down people, while you may argue were self centered, helped keep public authorities from pushing for much more imposing mandates and closures. Then as we get through more election cycles even the most ardent supporters of stricter rules in the bluest states have reversed themselves, not because we are moving away from the worst of the pandemic, but because keeping kids in zoom schools because teacher unions cried about vulnerable family members started to become loser platforms. Lose some local level stuff and bad internal polling will get things changed mighty fast here. I get the sense from my friends still in Shanghai this was an unexpected and quick turn of events. They didnt have enough time to think out dropping their whole lives, find new jobs, uproot locations, and are just riding it out.
Welp, guess who finally got The Covid. Not me, but the wife and kids. All vaxxed and boosted, all breakthroughs. So really it's just a matter of time before my test comes up +. Meantime I'll be moving the PS5 and our spare flatscreen into the isolation ward, how come I'm the one who ends up quarantining anyway?
It's tore through my friends in DC, and now North Korea. I dunno what the connection is but....(eyes narrow suspiciously).
If you're in the US you can get a 3rd round of free Covid tests. This shipment will contain 8 tests instead of 4. https://special.usps.com/testkits/
I got my last shipment right at the tail end of the Omicron spike so I probably have 8-10 kits. Was hoping that I'd never need them but I know a few people who have caught covid recently so probably another wave coming.
Might have to change this to the "Monkeypox - The result of stupidity" thread. https://abcnews.go.com/Health/massa...pox/story?id=84817514&cid=social_twitter_abcn
DeSantis threatened to fine the special olympics $27.5 million dollars if they kept their vaccine mandate, and they caved. He is touting this as a win. Not like people with down syndrome are at particular risk from COVID or anything...