A catastrophe of unfathomable scale is being consciously unleashed on the Chinese people by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leaders who have completely lifted the zero COVID policy.
Every day, news reports from China reveal how far government policy changes have gone and how severe the resulting crisis has become. In the past two weeks, mass testing has been halted and his mobile app for tracking contacts and exposure to COVID-19 has been shut down. On Wednesday, China stopped counting asymptomatic COVID cases. More than two years after China had the most accurate data on her COVID-19, official figures no longer reflect reality. Quarantine protocols have also been lifted, and workers infected with COVID-19 are now forced to return to work.
The official rhetoric of the CCP, which embraces all the lies of the United States and other Western countries, is reality itself. Rather than presenting a zero COVID policy as the solution to ending the pandemic, it argues that the pandemic is the solution to ending the zero COVID policy. A “mild” Omicron outbreak leads to a surge in infections dubbed the “COVID exit wave” by state media. By mid-2023, the wave will subside and China will return to “pre-epidemic conditions,” according to his Zhong Nanshan, a lung disease expert and a key voice in his COVID policy for the Chinese Communist Party. is expected.
In fact, China is reintegrating into a dystopian world of ‘eternal COVID’, where a mass infection of the global population has mutated SARS-CoV-2 into an increasingly infectious and immune-resistant subspecies. With each new global surge, millions of people are re-infected with the virus, experiencing multiple injuries to their bodies, and some of the population are dying. Died or disabled by Long COVID.
The spread of COVID through the population of China provides the virus with a vast new pool of infections, in which the virus may mutate into new forms, possibly more virulent. The end of Zero-COVID could have a devastating impact on the world in the form of new and worsening waves of global infections.
Official data are no longer accurate, but there is strong evidence that China’s public health infrastructure is already overwhelmed with severe cases. Those believed to have “mild” infections have been told to stay home, but hospitals and medical centers are unable to cope with the massive influx of patients. The situation is so dire that her COVID-19 doctor, who exhibits only “mild symptoms,” should continue to work, but avoid contact with elderly patients. Such policies would turn healthcare into a major vehicle for viral transmission.
The justification for this new policy is global times“The consensus is that the virus is too contagious to avoid infection. Their symptoms may be down to luck, but most people can survive the virus and the risk of death is negligible.” ”
Mr Zhong on Friday quantified this “negligible” risk to the press, saying that “only” 0.1% of those infected would die. Her 0.1% fatality rate from a virus “too contagious to avoid” in a country of 1.4 billion people could mean more than a million deaths.
However, an estimate of 0.1% is a low value. Singapore, which has the highest vaccination coverage in the world, will reach 0.45% of his fatality rate with Omicron in 2022. In the US, 250,000 people have died from her COVID-19 in the past year. How many more people could die if a relatively immunologically naive country of 1.4 billion people were hit by the virus? scientific research has been published. There is no uncertainty in their prognosis. Hundreds of thousands, perhaps he’s 2 million, are facing death as a result of the lifting of Zero-COVID.
Factories and businesses are being abandoned in Beijing and other major cities as a result of both outbreaks and fear. News reports are riddled with reports of workplaces where his 90% of workers are staying home with fevers, and there are increasing reports of companies forcing sick workers to return to work, with the government following suit. getting ready
The Chinese Communist Party repeats the criminal “herd immunity” policy of the US and imperialist forces, but with a crucial difference. The Chinese government has been forced to withdraw a successful and popular elimination strategy in order to carry out its outbreak policy. Rather than the CCP’s bureaucracy imposing on the people, in many ways it was the opposite.
Zero-COVID was a planned and coordinated expression of the public’s determination to take necessary measures to prevent outbreaks and deaths. The policy’s success hinged on working-class communities’ choice to make sacrifices, such as undergoing regular mass testing and enduring occasional lockdowns, to prevent the spread of the disease. .
It is not the Chinese who have called for the lifting of Zero-COVID, but the voices of international financial capital and Western media. They coveted this and did everything possible to poison international public opinion against China’s public health measures.
of new york times Publish editorials, articles, and articles denouncing China’s “totalitarian” health measures, presenting quarantine facilities as concentration camps, comparing public health workers to the Nazis, and criticizing “freedom,” “human rights,” In the name of “democracy,” demanded mass infections. While China struggled to escape a global pandemic, Washington destabilized the world, provoked war in Ukraine, threatened war over Taiwan, and imposed trade war measures on China.
In late November, Western media took to China’s small middle-class protests to again demand an end to Zero-COVID. The blank demonstrations on the campuses of China’s elite universities acted as an interface between the CCP’s strategy and Western propaganda demands, rather than a wave of defiant opposition by the Chinese public. Staged in front of the cameras of the world’s press, they dramatized the “people’s demand” to lift Zero-COVID, a policy already adopted by the Chinese Communist Party in its claims of international financial capital.
The Chinese Communist Party carefully planned and initiated the lifting of Zero-COVID long before the protests. By early November, we brought in process consultants from Hong Kong to re-prioritize our budget, and on November 11, we announced the 20 measures that would constitute the first phase of our Zero-COVID rollback. Just a month later, the vast protected infrastructure carefully crafted by the Chinese people lies in ruins.
Zero-COVID has organized, planned and formulated policies resulting from grassroots efforts in Wuhan and neighboring cities to prevent the spread of the pandemic in early 2020. The exclusionist approach was already in place in China when the pandemic hit.
U.S. imperialism then set the agenda for global capitalism, pioneering mass-infection and death techniques and lies to sustain profits. Countries have followed Washington’s lead, first eliminating, then mitigating, with policies of “herd immunity” and “living with the virus.” It was this beleaguered disease regime, this “forever COVID” policy that isolated China, not Zero-COVID.
The power and prerogative of the CCP leadership rests on its ability to police and make available the vast Chinese working-class workforce for exploitation by global capitalism. The party’s upper echelons exercise state power to ensure a successful interface between imperialist financial capital and the Chinese workforce, while maintaining national sovereignty as the political base of their authority. Their political outlook is an expression of this function and is entirely nationalist.
There is no national solution to a global pandemic. Either Zero-COVID will succeed as a global strategy based on socialist policies, or COVID-19 will continue to spread globally for the foreseeable future. The CCP sees no way out of China’s isolation and is surrendering to world imperialism.
Knowing that lifting Zero-COVID would be unpopular and likely to cause explosive class conflict, the CCP leadership deliberately decided to abandon half-measures. . With unprecedented speed, they dismantled all the barriers to the reopening of international financial capital before the opposition was organized. In an attempt to fragment China’s working class and undermine social solidarity, the government has adopted a new slogan. “Be the first to take responsibility for your health.”
It is imperative that the Chinese and international working classes oppose the lifting of Zero-COVID and fight for the re-enforcement of Zero-COVID, not only in China but around the world. Public health, designed and coordinated as a common goal and collective right to save millions of people from death and debilitation, must guide the global movement of the working class.
