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elcrack0r t1_iuirsbj wrote

Reply to comment by Substantial_Camera_8 in Workers leave iPhone factory in Zhengzhou amid COVID curbs by Substantial_Camera_8

What's your thought process? Are you afraid that your Apple product will become more expensive?

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Substantial_Camera_8 OP t1_iuiso3u wrote

They just locked down people inside a Shanghai disneyland

My thought process is that its not functional, either they dont trust their own vaccine or they like the control they have on the citizens

You cant lock down forever

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elcrack0r t1_iuj1lzn wrote

Honey bear can do anything he likes.

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lollysticky t1_iuisu6u wrote

That comment says more about you than OP... And it's a legitimate question to raise: why does China continue this policy that clearly isn't working (as they continue to shut down cities) and also hurts them economically.

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attackofthetominator t1_iuiu623 wrote

Because the Sinovac is not as effective as West's vaccines. Combine that with yet another Covid outbreak and China's healthcare system gets overrun again.

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lollysticky t1_iuiuuw0 wrote

I would imagine China's vaccines have improved by now, no?

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attackofthetominator t1_iuivrot wrote

Apparently not if they're enforcing complete lockdowns of anyplace where there's a remote trace of Covid.

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lollysticky t1_iujpukd wrote

The question is: are the quarantines for that reason, or something else?

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DIBE25 t1_iukbfvd wrote

if you're talking of shitty authoritarian regimes then a logic like theirs works

you quarantine entire cities at a time, push spyware to your citizens and monitor their every move and while you're at it you can keep gathering more information (other than for prosecution and profiling idk for what) and not have to worry about having a working vaccine

or something idk

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[deleted] t1_iuj0w76 wrote

never heard of Mao Zedong? The Chinese gov is not one to state they're wrong.

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lollysticky t1_iujpkyf wrote

You're correct there. But they tend to like economic growth

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elcrack0r t1_iuj2al6 wrote

I'm just asking a question. China is a zero tolerance state. Doesn't matter who is getting hurt. OP is saying, oh noes, a Apple factory in China closed. Who tf cares?

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MalikTheHalfBee t1_iuitcyg wrote

Probably that totalitarianism is bad. But you may disagree.

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elcrack0r t1_iuj1hah wrote

I don't. What are you venting about? If you're doing business with a totalitarian state, you always should expect totalitarian moves.

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