anti-vax views are unfortunately high enough in the elderly population to make their vaccination rates suboptimal. this will result in many excess deaths. the cpc should have used the time bought via zero covid to overcome this issue. now, the unvaccinated will pay the price.
Damned if they do, damned if they don’t.
At least the elderly here have had decent access to accurate information to make their choice, instead of being subjected to a media infrastructure that platforms disinformation and conspiracy on the same level as experts and algorithms that boosts news based on controversy instead of merit.
why exactly would the cpc be “damned if they do” introduce a vaccine mandate?
Plays right into the “authoritarian ebil Winnie Pooh police state” propaganda.
Since sadly most of the world has associated “vaccine mandate” as a negative.
what? this is about chinese citizens, not how the rest of the world perceives vaccine mandates. unless chinese citizens also feel the same way? if so, what’s stopping the government from implementing one anyway?
Chinese people are not magically more tolerant of coercive measures than any other people. The CPC has as high an approval rating as it does precisely because it does its best to not use coercive measures when it doesn’t need to. And when they are used such as with the zero-Covid lockdown and testing policies then they make sure to make a good case for them and justify logically why it is necesary so that the citizens are generally on board. The Chinese government is much more sensitive to public opinion than western “democracies” are, it is a western myth that the CPC can just do as they wish with no regard to how it will be perceived by the people. Even if we use the nonsense term “authoritarian” that the western propagandists like so much, China is much less “authoritarian” to its people than liberal democracies are. Regular people are generally left alone by the government to live their lives in peace. You will notice also that China has much less of a police presence in public than even European countries do, let alone the police state USA. The ones who chafe under the “authoritarian” control of the CPC are the capitalists, and that’s what bothers the west so much.
Of course we can argue that the Chinese government should have done a better job with media and public relations outreach programs to convince more people of the need and efficacy of the vaccines. But there is only so much you can do at the end of the day. And if you look at their vaccination rates they are actually quite good in comparison to most other countries.
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You don’t think the government would get criticism for a vaccine mandate?
The issue is much more challenging than force people to get the vaccine, forcing vaccines is a way to alienate a group of the population that looks to traditional medicine for care and has a high rate of participation and involvement in society. They educated all over the country.
Anecdotally, I personally tried to convince my grandmother for about 6 months on a daily basis, even having her tradmed talk to her and she refused because of her common sickness treatment regime has kept her alive for 100 years.
I’m skeptical of most “traditional” medicine, but I’m curious to hear about your grandmother, if you would like to share more.
I’m honestly really surprised and kind of disappointed that they didn’t, and that vaccine uptake on China isn’t higher in general.
