After widespread protests against the lockdowns in November, the Chinese regime abruptly reversed its stringent zero-COVID policy in early December in a dangerous push for China to reach herd immunity at the fastest pace possible, said an expert.
Since the reversal, COVID-19 has ravaged China’s population, which was unprepared for the sudden change after three years of zero-COVID restrictions.
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has intentionally reversed its policy so that the country can reach herd immunity at the fastest pace possible, said former U.S. Army virologist Dr. Xiaoxu Sean Lin.
“Actually, nowadays, you see in China, they allow many places to host huge events, for New Year’s celebrations. You see tens of thousands of people gathering together to celebrate the New Year,” he added.
“They basically push many people to get severely infected and many will end up in ICU or die and it came at a time when China is in a very, very poor shortage of even the anti [COVID] Paxlovid medicines,” he said.
Deliberate Leakage of Infection Figures
As a Member of the Committee on the Present Danger: China, Lin believed the leakage of China’s infection rates is a deliberate move associated with the current governing system led by the outgoing Chinese premier Li Keqiang.Lin described Li as a “more down to the earth” person.
“So sometimes you see some data come out of the system,” he said, citing the recent statement made by Zeng Guang, former chief epidemiologist at the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention.
Based on Zeng’s estimate, over 80 percent of Beijing residents, or 17.6 million people, may have already been infected with COVID-19.
Meanwhile, the newly elected Politburo member Li Qiang, who Lin said, is actually taking the lead in controlling the pandemic situation in China, wants to “cover up the true information about the infection, hospitalization, and people in ICU as well as the death toll.”
Lin said the Chinese regime’s supposed death toll since the start of the pandemic—now standing at 5,253—is a“joke.”
“These are totally a number that no one can believe right now,” he said.
“So I think the reality is much worse than the world has been seeing through Chinese official data,” he said.
“I think in January or even in February, we still will see a very high peak of the death toll coming out of China, the real number,” Lin predicted.