I legitimately can't tell of China's "fuck it" policy towards covid now is meant to punish its own people by making them all sick (and thus regret challenging government 'wisdom' on covid policy), meant to punish the rest of the world by spiking covid rates everywhere as they flood the planet with completely unchecked covid positive carriers, or whether they legitimately think this is the best path towards "getting over it", but every option is insane.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-64208127
Nearly 90% of people in Henan, China's third most populous province, have now been infected with Covid, local health officials say.
Provincial official Kan Quancheng revealed the figure - amounting to about 88.5 million people - at a press conference.
The Henan provincial figures are in stark contrast to Covid figures from the central government
According to official data, just 120,000 people in the country of 1.4 billion have been infected and 30 died since the shift in Covid policy.
Other local and provincial officials have also been providing very different data to that from the central government. On Christmas Eve, a senior health official in the port city of Qingdao reported that half a million people were being infected each day. Those case figures were swiftly removed from news reports.