The Delta Variant Could End the Chinese Communist Party – 19FortyFive
Totalitarian-style tactics, unfortunately for China s rulers, have not worked with the hardy Delta variant. The coronavirus, unlike other pathogens, has become more transmissible and more virulent over time. Delta, as a result, is now killing off the triumphalism of the Communist Party.
Therefore, a nationwide spread of the disease is a potentially existential threat to the Party. At the moment, Delta is running through many societies around the world, but China appears to be the only one where the variant could end the ruling group s tenure.
Therefore, it should be no surprise that Party propagandists went berserk for a few days last month when Bloomberg named the U.S. No. 1 in the world in its Covid Resilience Ranking. What a joke, People s Daily, the most authoritative publication in China, remarked.
Denigration of the U.S. cannot solve the Party s main problem, however. None of China s five coronavirus vaccines are particularly effective.
That would be ironic and history seems to love irony.