Coronavirus week 106B: Yet more on what's wrong with Shanghai

In a long new piece, NY Mag gets a number of things right, including but by no means limited to rejecting China's official coronavirus death claims. Part of what it gets right is the correct backstory. Beyond Xi Jinping Thought's lying and stonewalling about death claims (which the story says might be tenfold more than the US, which even with 4X the population would mean a per capita death rate 2.5X higher) is a flawed larger strategy — still trying for "zero COVID." In turn, that's because of another thing that Xi Jinping Thought fellators from Walker Bragman to Margaret Flowers won't admit: Chinese vaccines suck compared to Western ones, so it's not a defense front line. Yes, people can still "shed," but they get milder infections, and if others are also vaccinated, they're almost certain, here, not to get a breakthrough infection off someone else's breakthrough. In China? Not so likely.

And, alert them, People's Republic of Humboldt Bay dude Rainier Shea and others to one other reality. Xi's got Shanghai SO cock-blocked it's worse than Greg Abbott with Mexican truckers. Per the image at left, from this Twitter account, it looks like 5,000 cargo ships are moored offshore. Meanwhile, Chinese officials say they're sticking by "zero COVID" policies.

Also, politics is at stake. Xi is seeking to shatter recent precedent with a third term, and that comes before the CCP 20th Congress this fall. A failure in Shanghai would put a crimp in that indeed.

The story authors then wonder at end: Will the degree of resilience shown by Shanghai residents be a long-term problem for the CCP?