Thread by @RealSexyCyborg

My girlfriend's mum has been on lockdown in Xinjiang for almost 100 days, today they said she could go shopping for one hour😣

We want to bring her to Shenzhen so we can look after her but it's very difficult now, and maybe there will be unrest in XJ😓

https://twitter.com/AndyBxxx/status/1596346372097478657

If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. And these days they just use mass lockdowns instead of mitigating in-community aerosol spread and using lockdowns sparingly. So people get locked down and it just spreads between apartment blocks. Unscientific.

Fix plumbing traps, install roof exhaust fans, UR-UVGI or ACH6 in all public spaces and businesses, and mandate N/KN95 masks. All so much cheaper than endless mass lockdowns, quarantines, and endless spraying. Zero-COVID does not require this nonsense.

Shenzhen has 17m people and has not had any mass lockdowns for more than 1 week. Only 20 days in total in the last three years. We have housing and factories of all different types. Smart Zero-COVID works, we've proven that over and over. This idiocy elsewhere is for no reason😢

But, so you know- Chinese are really angry over the fire in Xinjiang. My GFs people are marginalized, and Chinese usually a little condescending, but over this, really they are very supportive of XJ people. Today my neighbors asked after my "good friend"🥺 So that is nice to see.

We have very good STEM education, we know what is scientific and what is not. Even at the riots now- Chinese wave the Chinese flag because they're against foolish unscientific measures, not the government or Zero-COVID. Yes I know you be cynical but most of us blame local policy.

If it's not local policy, how Zero-COVID is actually implemented, why would Shenzhen be so successful and other places be such a shit show? And there are no rules preventing local government from implementing aerosol mitigation- they just won't follow the science.

So at least for now, most Chinese I talk to support the central government policy sticking with Zero-COVID, but they are sick of abusive and unscientific measures that go without public health education or explanation because they are not logical so cannot be explained.

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