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BA2, Covid, China—Shanghai rules out lockdown despite rising cases and pressure from locals to do so as Western fashion giants dependant on Shanghai port for exports demand that they do not do a lockdown.

The REAL reason we don't have lockdowns https://t.co/SknpmzdNRH

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'Shanghai lockdown threatens apparel supply chains' https://t.co/dSLPy8REbm

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The fashion industry is 'heavily reliant' on Shanghai port for exports—anything that gets in the way of profit for massive western corporations is, of course, not to be tolerated: https://t.co/0dtVtanGnP

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The UK Fashion and Textile Association (UKFT)’s CEO Adam Mansell who promotes fashion and textile companies in the UK, speaking to Just-Style warned of lockdowns and the harm caused to profits from lockdowns.

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'Mansell who promotes fashion and textile companies in the UK, highlights retailers have only just got back to operating on a normal level from the pandemic and lockdowns in that region of China will create more challenges.' reports Just-Style.

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'While, the American Apparel & Footwear Association’s president and CEO Steve Lamar states China’s zero-Covid policy is outdated and needs to be reassessed in order to keep supply chains moving and the world’s economic recovery on-track.'

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'It is time to revisit these outdated zero-Covid policies and replace them with current learnings so we can support both lives and livelihoods.'

Says American Apparel & Footwear Association’s president and CEO, Steve Lamar. https://t.co/CDDgO5gNBd

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The fashion industry is demanding that China stop persuing zero Covid—profit COMES FIRST—Nothing is allowed to get in the way of it:

https://t.co/VRPOk3nP8R

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China's current outbreak numbers by province: the ruling out of a proper lockdown in places like Shanghai which has much higher numbers than anywhere else is stopping them from achieving zero and PROLONGING the outbreak: https://t.co/PkpOtAwsKo

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The demands of the Western fashion giants will do nothing but cause yet more endless supply chain disruption—alas the rich create the crisis they complain about.