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Re: Quick Check on COVID Lockdowns


From: Yasuaki Kudo
Subject: Re: Quick Check on COVID Lockdowns
Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2022 12:10:14 +0900

(disclaimer: if there is a better mailing list for this subject, someone please 
let us know but here we go)

In Tokyo and its surrounding metro area where I live, things are pretty much 
back to normal except for the voluntary (meaning not legally mandated but some 
supermarkets, etc make requests) mask wearing.
 
It looks like we have highly divergent approaches depending on where we are 
when it comes to this.   The Chinese approach sounds not so surprising given 
the authoritarian powers of its government 😅

In Japan, I think the primary driver was the cultural conformity pressure that, 
not surprisingly, extended to mask wearing and all that (not necessarily 
'scientific')

-Yasu



> On Apr 10, 2022, at 16:02, andrew via libreplanet-discuss 
> <libreplanet-discuss@libreplanet.org> wrote:
> 
> Shanghai, where I live, has been locked down again.  Any of you in
> lockdown?
> 
> (Personally I think Shanghai's lockdown is quite bad, I haven't written
> about this in English yet, but here for your reference is a school essay
> about it.  Note that since it's a school essay, I haven't fully
> expressed, and it's in Chinese.)
> 
> 令人惊悚的发现
> 
> 又封闭管理了。这是第二次全市封闭。上一次在2020年。
> 
> Delta变体杀伤性强,传染性较强,全球肆虐,在欧洲影响特别明显,导致上万例感染,上千例死亡。若在上海市等人口密度大的城市爆发,后果不堪设想。最近
> 新型冠状病毒的Omicron变体全球蔓延。本来我很受到惊吓,我以为它是与Delta类似的杀伤型变种。然而,阅读相关资料后,我发现Omicron变体传染性强,杀伤
> 性小,与以往的流行性感冒的死亡率类似。因此有国家和地区采用以往的流感政策,即仅病人的密切接触者居家隔离,在潜伏期完成多次检测,若检测结果皆为>阴性则允许其恢复正常生活。
> 
> 上海本来没什么事,只有在机场、火车站检测到的少量外地输入病例,容易隔离追踪。然而有一次正是收隔离人员的酒店管理差,导致Omicron疯狂扩散。这也使
> 政府发现Omicron的无症状感染者占感染者比例极大,也证明Omicron杀伤性小。
> 
> 2022年3月10日,我们接到通知:上海市中小学教学活动改为线上。忽略线上教学的法律、技术问题,线上教学的效果仍然无法与线下教学相比。我当时很惊讶,
> 特别是在发现Omicron其实没什么大不了的后,感到奇怪。令我惊讶的是,上海市居然采取封闭管理的行政措施。所有居民必须居家,不得外出,甚至不能去最近
> 的商店购买食物,目的为完全歼灭新冠。
> 
> 经信息查找,我发现上海的蓝领工人不少。他们的工作很多都是无法居家线上完成的。隔离或封锁意味他们失去收入的来源,购买力下降,最终导致长期的经济>问题;更重要的是,因为现在全市封锁,医院也都不接受新的病人,连救护车、抢救等基本的服务都无法访问。这使上千的脑卒中、心肌梗死病人失去生命的机>会。相比于Omicron约0.07%的死亡率(在上海合计7例死亡),这对人们影响更大,在当今人口老龄化的社会里也有更多患有慢性病的病人治疗被拖延,长期后果
> 严重。即使是对于生活相对稳定的家庭,不能出去锻炼身体,不能出去购买食物也是影响我们生活质量的。
> 
> 在尝试通过封锁以期减少新型冠状病毒引起的死亡同时,应当考虑因为封锁等造成的相关死亡和生活质量的下降。毕竟最终目的是造福人民,不是为了证否其他>国家“与病毒共存”的标语和证明自己有消除新冠的能力。
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