Friday, 18 March 2022

“Curbs my be lifted early as tolerance fading, Lam says” | SCMP

Tolerance fading. Who knew that public tolerance factors into “the science”? Too snarky? One ought be thankful. I guess. Though there well be the “one death is too many” crowd who will think it’s “too early”. Can never please everyone. They’d be snarking “yet another U-turn!”. Oh well… 

By the way, another thing that’s fading: our vaccine efficacy. Which we don’t know exactly, except that it does happen, and iirc, drops to around 50% efficacy after around 6 months. Our third shot was in November last. 

The headline at the bottom is Xi Jinping giving his cadres a pep talk, while acknowledging that lockdowns have had economic and social effects. Probs the first time he’s done that. China currently having record number of cases per day. That said, it’s not abandoning its Zero Covid policy. Aka “dynamic zero policy”.