Thread by @MrSeanHaines

It's amazing the 180 Chinese state media have done on their Covid messaging of late.

Someone should make a short thread of interesting quotes.

Oh. WAIT. *cues music*.. 🧵👇

"Omicron is not flu."

... until it was.

Seems topical. But it's actually from April.

"No lying flat. No laissez-faire."

"What? This bonfire of the regulations? No. This isn't laissez-faire.."

Then: "Why did the US stop updating covid data? What is it afraid of? 😠"

Now: "It's unfair to collapse the covid conversation into numbers.. 😒"

Cancelling zero covid will spark a "tsunami of infections".

.. Wonder what that looks like? 🤔

"Why China MUST stick with zero covid"

"..getting cold feet is flinching at the final attempt.. The result may prove catastrophic." 🎯

Hu Xijin calls giving up the covid fight " betrayal to all mankind", treating it as flu "a huge mistake"

.. until he doesn't.

Also: Impressively wrong.
Considering the news had already leaked.

"1 million Covid infections shows US no super power"

.. so China today would be..?

"Trump is calling for restarting the economy, regardless that more people will be infected... this is absurd."

(.. until it isn't 👉)

"How many people were hoodwinked into believing Omicron was the perfect pandemic offramp and thus threw caution to the winds?"

..worries China Daily's token Texan Marxist, in May. I'm sure he's equally annoyed with Beijing today~

US vaccines bad 😑
China vaccines good 😆

🌟Fun Fact 1: These two stories ran within *40 hours* of eachother~
🌟Fun Fact 2: Efficacy rates 🎉

2020: CCTV mocks US for fast tracking vaccines
2022: China still waiting on mRNA

"Disrespect for science hurts Covid battle"

.. though TCM?

But, hey. #Victory 🏆

.. any more..? 🖥