What I’m hearing from people in Hong Kong (in voice communications rather than written since written communications are completely insecure) is that there’s a major outbreak of COVID-19 going on in China right now and people are returning home early for New Years, fearful that lockdowns aren’t far away. I have no way of establishing the veracity or scale of the matter.
It’s a sad situation when you simply can’t believe the official statistics but that’s the world we’re in.
Sounds plausible. Hard to believe that China, even as an authoritarian country, could keep the global epidemic out.
They already had the epidemic for the original COVID-19. This would have to be a new strain.
If it is a new strain, and it is at pandemic levels, we will be in lockdown for another year at least.
What if there is a new pandemic every year?
Or twice a year. Or every week. That’s the point I discussed in a previous post.
“What if there is a new pandemic every year?”
We all die.
I trust you are aware that is not true for just China. It looks like a lot of places under-reported.
Steve
and reports were that most of China was unaffected by the late winter and early spring outbreak. Could be the same virus and likely is.