[jmbrook]

I never quite understood why they don't just rebrand the Pfizer vaccine (or effective one) and move on.

What is the point of having all that propaganda apparatus if you can even do that?

[tlogan]

I think nobody is in charge. I assume that Xi wanted to use COVID to solidify his power. But that failed and now everybody is waiting since he does not have enough power to change the narrative …

There is a rumor there are a lot of officials which still wait for approval from Hu Jintao and his group to do anything. But that rumor is from person who was not in China for 5 years.