Morgues overwhelmed: why China’s new Covid crisis is all of its own making
Fever medicine is in short supply, hospitals are swamped, the death toll is soaring among the elderly, and morgues are overwhelmed with bodies
Beijing has had nearly three years to prepare for pandemic controls to be lifted and learn from other countries – so how has it messed this up?
Wang Xiangwei
Published: 12:00pm, 23 Dec, 2022
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1. There should be an exit plan from covid to endemic.
2. It should not be left to chance.
3. Evidence shows that covid will not disappear from the World, and Countries must adopt ways to overcome it and live with it.
4. Hence, scientific ways must be adopted to tackle covid :-
a. Full dose vaccination must be given to majority of the population at least more than 90% to be effective, especially vulnerable such as elderly, and immunocompromised.
b. Face masks must be used in public.
c. Hybrid workforce - whereby infected stay at home, while healthy work in office.
d. Ensure healthcare facilities - are ramped up to tackle spike in infection.
5. This is how Countries have successfully exit from covid pandemic to endemic and live with covid.
6. Else fast spreading covid will spread like wildfire.
7. Strict lockdown is also not a sustainable strategy - as people need to earn a living by working and business need to survive.
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User since May 2021
Bitcoin B.
@Babe B. We have been saying the same thing in Hong Kong since two years ago. Nobody is working on it, because everyone already knows it's no more lethal to the vaccinated than the flu.
4m ago
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User since Mar 2021
Babe B.
@Babe B. 1. This approach is a successful working model - for Countries to have overcome covid and now working and living along with covid in endemic. 2. Since mid 2022, these Countries have already open up and overseas travel has already resume - with no big spike in covid since.
Just now
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User since Jun 2020
Andy Y.
@Bitcoin B. Yeah, HK never really had an exit plan. Instead, the virus swept through the city while all resources were focused on draconian measures for keeping it out, causing a per-capita death rate several times that of other countries, and to date, with a total death count 5 times that of Singapore. Nowadays HK is mostly open, only after the damage has been done. One would expect that China have learned from HK. I'll leave those with common sense to determine if they have or not.
User since Mar 2021
Babe B.
@Babe B. 1. Pragmatism must be placed above everything else, and should not be clouded by political or ideological consideration. 2. Saving lives, ensuring economic viabilities - so that people can continue to work, business continue to survive(which is also a subset of saving lives) - should be in equation of tackling covid. 2. Tackling covid and opening up - need not be a binary, either or scenario.
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