{"id":24483,"date":"2022-12-21T15:43:15","date_gmt":"2022-12-21T20:43:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckms.ca\/?p=24483"},"modified":"2022-12-21T15:43:16","modified_gmt":"2022-12-21T20:43:16","slug":"hearses-queue-at-beijing-crematorium-even-as-china-reports-no-new-covid-deaths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=24483","title":{"rendered":"Hearses queue at Beijing crematorium, even as China reports no new COVID deaths"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/GQCGX3VWQ5NF5OYLFUOZJ4QTGA-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"298\" height=\"199\" \/><span style=\"font-size: inherit;\">Dozens of hearses queued outside a Beijing crematorium on Wednesday, even as China reported no new COVID-19 deaths in its growing outbreak, sparking criticism of its virus accounting as the capital braces for a surge of cases.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/china\/beijing-braces-surge-severe-covid-cases-world-watches-with-concern-2022-12-21\/\">Hearses queue at Beijing crematorium, even as China reports no new COVID deaths<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>did the China zero-covid policy ending after the protests in late 2022-11 be a good strategy by waiting until a less deadly variant (omicron) become dominant?  so everyone&#8217;s going to get it, best to wait until it&#8217;s less deadly before opening up?  ~2m dead of 1400m people is 0.001\/m, whereas USA (1.1m \/ 330m =0.003\/m) or Canada (.049m \/ 37m = .001\/m) which matches this (ignoring the likely incorrect by huge factor for China&#8230; unless it&#8217;s true&#8230; will we ever know?)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/2022-12-21-15_23_52-Coronavirus-Pandemic-COVID-19-Our-World-in-Data.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/2022-12-21-15_23_52-Coronavirus-Pandemic-COVID-19-Our-World-in-Data.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-24486\" width=\"344\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/2022-12-21-15_23_52-Coronavirus-Pandemic-COVID-19-Our-World-in-Data.jpg 601w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/2022-12-21-15_23_52-Coronavirus-Pandemic-COVID-19-Our-World-in-Data-258x300.jpg 258w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 344px) 100vw, 344px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>isn&#8217;t this wrong thinking?  new variants are not inevitably to be lesser?  can go either way  on multiple dimension\/axes (transmissibility, deadliness, etc?)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>&#8220;Paul Tambyah, President of the Asia Pacific Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infection, supported that view.<br>&#8220;I do not think that this is a threat to the world,&#8221; he said. &#8220;The chances are that the virus will behave like every other human virus and adapt to the environment in which it circulates by becoming more transmissible and less virulent.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dozens of hearses queued outside a Beijing crematorium on Wednesday, even as&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[150,169,21],"class_list":["post-24483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-china","tag-covid-19","tag-uh-oh","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24483\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}