Shanghai intensifies lockdown as Xi Jinping insists on zero-Covid

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16. It's also futile unless he shuts down power, water, gas, hospitals, police, firefighters

and everybody else considered essential to life. People would also stop getting packets of food left outside their doors, those workers would have to lock down, also.

So unless he's ready to kill a bunch of people with Draconian lockdown measures, more than would be killed by the virus, he's fighting a battle that has already been lost.

What he needed to do was vaccinate everybody. The Chinese vax is about 80% effective against the disease, with the other 20% most likely experiencing reduced symptoms.

Lockdowns might have been important in the earliest waves of the disease, jury's still out on that one, but there was no alternative since there was no vaccine.

Instead, this is a futile action from a man who's flexing his muscles. He's putting the people of Shanghai through incredible hardship while throwing a wrench into global commerce. Chinese leaders have been overthrown for less than that.