Continued discussion from the flame free thread.
China cannot possibility have reached herd immunity. Maybe in Wuhan(the place of origin), but not anywhere else. You probably know I’m always skeptical about anything pertaining to the CCP so I wouldn’t be posting this if I weren’t at least pretty sure I know what I’m saying.
The initial lockdowns were very strict, with deployment of the military, high tech surveillance, constant movement monitoring with app tech supplied by, and jointly coordinated with tech giants like Alibaba, plus mass testing.
You can get a COVID test easily at any hospital for less than 10USD in China right now. My wife just got 2 there. Anyone who enters China from abroad is quarantined in a dedicated facility for 2 weeks and tested.
Friends on the ground in 3 different provinces have told me the same thing.
They stopped renewing passports to prevent people from leaving the country in my wife’s city a couple of months ago, presumably to prevent people from travelling and bringing the virus back home. I don’t know whether it’s the same in other places.
4 major provinces have been put on the “safe” list on the immigration side where I live. Guangdong(113million pop), Zhejiang(58million pop) and 2 others I can’t remember but they’re pretty big. No other country in the world is on that list.