[ExI] chinese fires, was:RE: book review

[Stathis Papaioannou]

On Wed, 30 Nov 2022 at 18:02, Tara Maya via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> During the Great Leap Forward, regional authorities each wanted to look
> good to the top. So they competed with each other to claim a bigger
> harvest. It didn't matter what did this did to the people below them, what
> mattered was looking good to the people OVER them. The result was probably
> the largest famine in world history.
>
> I suspect something similar is happening now. Each regional authority
> wants to prove that they are even more zealous in enforcing Covid rules
> than the next.
>
> It's not so much a display of power as a display of subservience, but that
> subservience is to the CCP bosses, not to the people. If people cry,
> starve, burn, so what? If the middle ranks disappoint the upper bosses,
> their own families will be the ones to cry, starve and burn, so it's worth
> it to them to prove their fanatic loyalty.
>

Nevertheless, the central regime could decide to slacken off. Masks
everywhere but no lockdowns unless the hospital ICU’s are 90% full, or
something. That’s all they can do now that there are 40,000 cases a day,
they can’t stop it. But they are heavily invested in a zero COVID policy
which - correctly for the original strain - they claim they managed due to
ter superior system.


> Tara Maya
>
>
> On Nov 29, 2022, at 10:29 PM, Stathis Papaioannou via extropy-chat <
> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>
> You think they’re having the lockdowns just as a display of power, even
> though it’s turning people against them and damaging the economy, the one
> thing that the leadership knows has kept them in power this long?
>
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