China's move to dismantle its strict COVID regime, which unleashed the virus onto its 1.4 billion residents, could have led to nearly 2 million excess deaths in the following two months, a US study shows.
The big failure of China’s Zero Covid policy was not its dismantling or the fact that it leaked. It’s that they failed to use the time it bought them to sufficiently vaccinate their population. It was a shocking failure for a government that supposedly prides itself on its ability to mobilize and guide society.
Several smaller countries in the Asia-Pacific region also used Zero Covid strategies, some of them almost as draconian as China’s. But the difference is that they got their old people vaccinated.
Oh, while we are collecting failures, going from “the entire city is in home-prision, we will incompetently handle the fundamental needs like food and water” directly into “whatever! you can kill yourselves for all that I care!” without any hint of even looking into a reasonable policy looks like a huge failure all by itself.
Any country that tried to help its people fared better. That’s by necessity, because those policies weren’t made for that.
The big failure of China’s Zero Covid policy was not its dismantling or the fact that it leaked. It’s that they failed to use the time it bought them to sufficiently vaccinate their population. It was a shocking failure for a government that supposedly prides itself on its ability to mobilize and guide society.
Several smaller countries in the Asia-Pacific region also used Zero Covid strategies, some of them almost as draconian as China’s. But the difference is that they got their old people vaccinated.
Oh, while we are collecting failures, going from “the entire city is in home-prision, we will incompetently handle the fundamental needs like food and water” directly into “whatever! you can kill yourselves for all that I care!” without any hint of even looking into a reasonable policy looks like a huge failure all by itself.
Any country that tried to help its people fared better. That’s by necessity, because those policies weren’t made for that.