"Less than two days after Beijing announced it would roll out China’s first ever vaccine mandate, authorities withdrew the policy in a rare concession to criticism from residents."
In China, the govt is not allowed to force people to be vaccinated.
bnnbloomberg.ca
In China, the govt is not allowed to force people to be vaccinated.
bnnbloomberg.ca
This is interesting for a number of reasons. First, comparisons between lockdown fatigue protests and the ones in the West are inaccurate for a few reasons. The western protests were more widespread, more violent, lasted for longer and didn't work.
In fact not only was there no change to policy until long after the initial protests, but the media narrative mocked them. By contrast, the Chinese government listened not once, but twice. For somewhat contradictory complaints.
Second, a big complaint about the lockdowns was they were not used to vaccinate the elderly. Actually they were along with everyone else (the numbers of deaths have and will continue to speak for themselves), but it wasn't through forcing them with a mandate.
A "western style" mandate was attempted only in July of this year and rolled back before implemented.
I expect all these actual facts to be memoryholed and people will now say China did the worst of both worlds and is now hiding millions of deaths based on this one surge.
News outlets are going overdrive with glee reporting Chinese dying.
News outlets are going overdrive with glee reporting Chinese dying.
Here in Shanghai we started the 3rd shot around last December. The uptake was slower than for the first two, so all through spring and summer, there were vaccine drives all over the city.
They entice people with things like vegetable oil and rice. If you're over 60, they reward you with a few hundred rmb. They haven't done a vaccine drive for a fourth shot. Vaccination has always been voluntary and available in many clinics within walking distance.
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