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In addition to the Chinese vaccines being far less effective than the mRNA ones the western world has access to, another important issue is the waning effectiveness of the vaccines after the initial doses have been administered. The mRNA vaccines are generally effective for a duration of 4 - 6 months, but in China, while they had pushed for mass vaccination when the Chinese vaccines were first made, they didn't push for a rigourous booster program. Instead, China spent / wasted its medical funding on an excessively frequent COVID screening program, as well as an extensive network of field hospital style isolation centers across the country. So what ended up happening was, among the general population, both natural an artificial (ie. vaccine induced) immunity against COVID is low. When you throw the highly infectious Omicron variants against a population like that, it's exactly like tossing a lit up match into a pile of cinder / tinder.
Another worrying trend is -- according to news that is seeping through Chinese social media, there seems to be a higher occurrence of lower respiratory tract infection in China now than what Omicron would typically produce. I do not know why that is the case, but we all know that COVID involving lower respiratory tract infections are far more serious and much deadlier than COVID with only upper respiratory traction infections.
A very ironic thing with China's situation is -- because they have spent / wasted so much money on screening / building field hospitals, now they have very little funding left to use in proper medical settings to treat the sick. Every indication I've read is suggesting that their medical resources are overwhelmed already, even when you are mid-level CCP members (who should have been entitled to better than average priority at for medical care and stuff). Adding the lack of medical resources to treat more severe forms of COVID, you have a deadly combination at your hands.
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