[opinionsonly01]

You claimed they had extended lockdowns. That is not true.

I said they had lockdowns, they did not have extended lockdowns.

Please stop spreading misinformation.

Edit: I also reframed for your last comment

> China had the added complication of not having a vaccinated population. Partly due to them having too many people, partly due to their population being skeptical of "Western Medicine".

But since you're defending it. People in China prefer paid western vaccines over free local ones. The CCP refused to allow western vaccines to be used in China for COVID.

[onethought]

You are now entering a pretty minor argument of semantics. Extended lockdowns vs non-extended?

Melbourne did lockdowns for effectively 4 months, longer than any single Chinese lockdown. So even on that point you are incorrect. This isn’t misinformation.

It didn’t refuse vaccines, you can get them in HK, and Chinese are free to travel to HK (for a variety of reasons). There is not enough of them, that’s the problem.

[opinionsonly01]

> Melbourne did lockdowns for effectively 4 months

You claimed Singapore and Taiwan has 'extended' lockdowns. I called you out. Now you're back peddling and trying to justify your statement with "but but but melbourne, you didn't mention melbourne and they had long lockdown!!!"

> It didn’t refuse vaccines, you can get them in HK, and Chinese are free to travel to HK.

It does refuse, and clearly you're not from China or you're just lying because China didn't recognize citizens who returned home with vaccines that were not Chinese.

Not everyone is allowed to travel to HK.

So your statement is completely false.

[onethought]

No, my original point included Melbourne as well. Singapore and Taiwan both did lockdowns as well. Not as long as China true, so your point really is the semantics of length?

No, I'm not from China, but that has little to do with any point I've made. Vaccines were never an option for Chinese, they had a locally made one that didn't work well enough, and they could have never secured the number required of mRNA. If it refused them, then how did HK get them?

Which statement that I've made is false?

[opinionsonly01]

They were an option. China refused to approve Pfizer despite having distribution rights in HK/Macau/China, and manufacturing facilities to produce it in China. Instead opting for local vaccines.

You claim Singapore / Taiwan had extended lockdowns > This is false.

You claim China could never secure mRNA vaccines > This is false.

You claim Chinese are free to travel to HK (to get the vaccine) > This is false.

[onethought]

Singapore locked down from early April to June… 2 months. You don’t think that’s a lockdown? Did China have a lockdown last more than 2 months? I don’t think so. Shanghai was probably the longest and was roughly 2 months long (hard to tell because it started in suburbs only, unlike Singapore that was the whole city), or Wuhan itself in the beginning. So what are you talking about? Pretending that I’m making false statements. You invented this bullshit “extended lockdown” term then didn’t realise Singapore actually did do a longer lockdown than almost all Chinese cities. Good one. :D

Taiwan locked down very early in all cases taking spread to zero and then blocked anyone entering the country. Similar to New Zealand. You don’t call that a lockdown?

Show me where 6 billion doses of mRNA are being produced every 12 weeks? Then I’ll believe China could have procured them.

Chinese are free to travel to hk. There are exceptions of course. But the majority can visit (assuming they had the means) - but that wouldn’t change the fact that HK only had a few million doses so couldn’t possibly help on the mRNA front

[opinionsonly01]

> Singapore locked down from early April to June… 2 months.

Your point? Let's look at the difference.

In China when in lockdown, you cannot leave your apartment, period. There's no food delivery. You rely on the government to delivery food packages to you, if they aren't dumping it. You have daily covid testing, if you test positive you get taken away.

Singapore lockdown, leave home to buy food or see doctor, if you have elderly who are dependent on you, you may go visit them or take supplies to them. If you work in the food industry you can continue to work, including delivery drivers.

Taiwan lockdown, same as Singapore.

> Show me where 6 billion doses of mRNA are being produced every 12 weeks? Then I’ll believe China could have procured them.

I don't understand what part you do not get.

China > Refused > To > Allow > Western > Vaccines > From > Being > Used > In > China.

China had the facilities and rights to produce the Pfizer vaccine in China. It was not allowed to produced and used in China because China did not approve the vaccines for use.

They opted for their own home grown vaccine instead of a western one.

How hard is this to understand?

> Chinese are free to travel to hk.

No they were not allowed to freely travel to HK. There were exceptions for /some/ people to travel to HK.

And it doesn't matter if they go to HK and got an mRNA vaccine as China DID NOT RECOGNIZE IT and REQUIRED you to get THEIR vaccine. Even people in Singapore who needed to travel to China were required to get sinovac to go to China as their moderna / pfizer vaccine certs were not recognized.