China's abandoning of its zero COVID policy (effectively letting it rip) was inevitable, and now Omicron is ripping through a population that if vaccinated, has the subpar local vaccine. This won't be pretty. Xi is going to need an invasion to distract from justifiable anger.
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Covid-19 deaths per 1,000,000; 28-day:
China - 0.457
United States - 30.62
The US has more than 67 times the death rate as China does.
(source:JHU)
@Pat So far, but who knows how accurate the data will be that the CCP will provide. The US is indeed a mess, given so many reasonably stubbornly unvax'd, but China isn't really in any better shape, given effectively no background immunity and the less Sinovax, and which a lot of their elderly haven't had.