China has opened its borders again.
NEW 🚨 In final farewell to zero-COVID, China reopened borders that have been all but shut since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic
— Insider Paper (@TheInsiderPaper) January 8, 2023
They are ending quarantine requirements for incoming travelers.
After three years, mainland China has opened sea and land crossings with Hong Kong and ended a requirement for incoming travelers to quarantine. https://t.co/AkCcLCMIPu
— NBC News (@NBCNews) January 8, 2023
They have finally taken real steps to abandon all of the insane zero-COVID policies they put into place.
I never understood why they pushed this on their people as hard as they did. It was bad public relations for China’s brand on the world stage and it was not good for their economy. They seem to have finally understood this and are rolling all of this back. It’s not like these measures were sustainable.
Historians are going to look back at this COVID-19 hoax with bewilderment and amusement and ask how the people of the early 21st century could have been so stupid.