Horror of a virologist: where did the coronavirus disappear in China

In China, the coronavirus suddenly ended. That is absolutely. It just was, and it’s gone now. The corresponding statement was made public after the meeting of the Standing Committee of the Politburo of the CPC Central Committee, which was held under the leadership of Chinese President Xi Jinping. And what, it was also possible?

By the way, the first group of tourists from the country that “performed a miracle in the history of mankind”, as the Chinese Communist Party described the sudden victory over the coronavirus, will arrive in Russia on February 23. Tourist communication and visa-free group trips have been resumed between our states.

Chinese media write about the “perfect transition from pandemic to normal life.” It is somewhere out there, among the neighbors, that the virus continues to spread and mutate, according to the Xinhua news agency, and in the Celestial Empire, where more than 30 million people were infected a day two months ago, peace and quiet and God’s grace. But how reliable is this information?

Since since the end of December, the daily statistics of the sick has not been published at all, it has been classified, you can make any statements you like, draw and announce any numbers from the TV screens – you still can’t check them.

For example, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said that from February 10-16, the number of deaths from COVID-19 was only 98 people.

For comparison, in Russia only on February 22, 34 people died for this reason. For the week from February 10 to February 16 – 242 people. And this despite the fact that all of us have been ill three times and no outbreaks are observed at the moment. Although it’s impossible to say that they don’t get sick at all – a little less than 14 thousand confirmed diagnoses over the past day. That is, the mortality rate is about 0.2%.

Can such mortality with an unknown morbidity be in China, at least from the point of view of the theory of relativity, at least according to the theory of probability? So that in the last two months, with a billion who have been ill, only 80 thousand die?

The document published at the end of the Plenum notes that everything ended so well and quickly, because the Central Committee made the most correct decisions and the most precise strategic adjustments in assessing the situation with the pandemic. And when he locked people at home and announced quarantine. And when he let them out into the street and lifted the restrictions. And when he started the pandemic, and when he hastily curtailed it. Everything always went according to plan in China.

According to Chinese state media, during the coronavirus pandemic, more than 200 million infected people used medical care in the country, nearly 800,000 seriously ill patients were cured, while “mortality from COVID-19 in China was the lowest in the world.” In general, the “zero covid” policy remains the most unsurpassed, and try to argue whether China has created a “miracle in the history of mankind” or not, if accurate information is still nowhere to be found.

Since the zero-COVID policy was lifted in December, more than a billion people have been infected by the virus here, according to Chinese health officials themselves.

Yes, most likely, after a strong outbreak that lasted about 1.5-2 months, now the infection has really begun to decline. By the way, this was the case in all countries. In a few months there will be another rise, then another respite and another wave. In any case, it was the same everywhere. But the Chinese have their own way.

Obviously, the medical aspect of the disease has never played a decisive role in the “progenitor country” of COVID-19, as political scientists aptly ironic: in the fall of 2022, covid was canceled at the XX Party Congress. It was then that there was a change in approaches to lockdowns and bans. Exhausted by the policy of total bans, law-abiding Chinese were ready to go to rallies when adherents of the policy of the most severe quarantine lost their right to vote in determining the strategy to combat the pandemic.

Supporters of the soft “Swedish model” began to steer, who let go of the reins, after which an unbridled increase in the incidence began. But otherwise it was still impossible. The economy of the Celestial Empire is out, and sooner or later it was necessary to get out of isolation anyway.

Publicly, the Chinese leadership will say exactly what it wants to hear. That the coronavirus has been defeated forever and, having strengthened and rallied its ranks even more, Chinese society is moving towards a brighter tomorrow.

But the funniest thing is that if defeating the coronavirus was so easy and simple, then why did they turn the country into a concentration camp for three years? Wouldn’t it have been easier to immediately close all the statistics and overcome the infection back in 2020?

By the way, it seems that we are following China’s example in this as well – today the State Duma, in the last third reading, adopted a law allowing any statistical data to be classified on any issue.