Eric Feigl-Ding has written extensively about COVID-19 over the past two years on Twitter. He was one of the very few vocal people back in January 2020 warning about potential global effects of the virus long before others.
Some have called him an alarmist, others have attempted to discredit his background and education.
As with Covid everything has gone from controversial to outright divisive ..
Feigl-Ding is back with new worries over China initiating brand new lockdowns in major cities across the nation. China has employed a ‘Zero Covid’ strategy and appears hellbent on continuing that regardless of the consequences..
Outbreak is still early in China, but the surge is near vertical so far —and that bodes very poorly. The fact that it’s simultaneously happening in with lockdowns in multiple cities at once shows urgency that we haven’t seen before. Furthermore, China isn’t alone in this mess. South Korea is also see an epic surge— now surpassing all time pandemic highs. And as expected, South Korea also has surging BA2 levels, now 31% of all variants detected in the country and rising fast. If SK also follows HK’s fate, then that may also be horrible for global crisis.
Meanwhile, Western European leaders have naively believed that they are immune from #BA2 after their recent #Omicron wave. They are wrong— there is some sobering news for those leaders who claim ‘COVID is over’—they are delusional as cases are soaring across Europe again, this time dominated mostly by BA2 plus with added relaxation of mitigations. Let’s always learn from what’s happening elsewhere, because #CovidIsNotOver.
Yesterday we showcased the image and live video of China quickly building new massive hospitals. They are live-streaming the process ..
While we make no light of Covid, it shows there’s a song for everything.
Two years after lockdowns and the virus briskly moving around the world, perhaps we are right back where we started from.
It definitely is not over.