Comments by "XSportSeeker" (@XSpImmaLion) on "What pisses me off about Apple, COVID zero, China, and demagogues" video.

  1. The argument "if it only saves one life" is even worse because, sure, you saved one life from dying by Covid on an extremely optimistic point of view, but lockdowns the way the CCP is implementing is making people sick, if not outright killing for other reasons... such as the fire. But even more, on letting people waste by being essentially locked into solitary confinement. Perhaps even worse than solitary confinement as some are being left to fend off for themselves without any help. Even disconsidering the horrible effects on economy, on people's social lives and livelihoods, it's already a net negative. Setting aside totalitarianism, let's pretend for a moment here that this was a democratic country enforcing rules according to science. It'd be wrong already. Strict lockdowns to the point of total isolation should never be employed past a few days at most, even if everyone had the conditions to maintain themselves (which they don't)... because those also have deleterious effects on health, both mental and physical. If the CCP wants to keep being overly precautious about the pandemic, and I personally cannot disagree with that, but it had to be a managed strategy, not radicalism. Either that or state presence had to be much more forwards providing people support all the time, pretty much impossible in a country with almost a fifth of the world's population. Keep the advisory to use masks and take extra care with hygiene, advance vaccination campaigns, but don't just pass chains on doors and tell people they cannot leave their homes for any reason. Which it seems is exactly the way they are going now given recent announcements and rare admissions of fault... but it didn't need to get to this point. But of course, this is all happening exactly because it's a totalitarian regime. In a way, like Louis said, what happened is a good thing because it put in display how far the government is willing to go for some stupid attempt on political gains in the international scene. The CCP and Pooh went this far into the misguided if not outright blind and stupid zero Covid policy because they wanted to become some weird shinning example on how to combat a pandemic in the world stage. It also have showed plenty how no one at a position of power there understands the hardships citizens have been going through. And for lots of Chinese citizens, this isn't only about Covid too. It's the combination of several moves by the CCP in recent years topped with Pooh staying on power. Particularly for younger Chinese, with an understanding of how things work in other countries, and what is happening these days, everything from Hong Kong, Taiwan, policies stamping down on gaming and gamers, moves that the CCP took against tech and gaming related private businesses, among several other actions shows a blatant disconnect between the government and themselves. The hopeful part of this is that if the government there is smart enough, this will be the opportunity to tone down things and stop with all the totalitarian moves. Thing is, China might have a totalitarian communist government, but in actuality, it has throngs of citizens in the middle class that are very capitalist, have a very modern democratic mentality, and just tolerates the situation with the government because it hasn't pushed them over the line just yet. Still, the fact that China has so much of the world's population is both strength and weakness for it's government. Protests are a seed for changes that needed happening there. I bet the CCP right now is shitting their pants on this becoming a situation similar to Iran... different motivations, different situations, but prolonged protests and anti-government sentiment is exactly what they don't want.
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