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Not when you look at the restrictions imposed on citizens, there are comments here about office blocks being locked down for 48hrs and everyone tested. Plus all the regional lockdowns where people were forced to stay indoors that were reported widely in western media.

China could simply deal with a virus like COVID-19 far better than the west. They have the political environment for it (more authoritarian), and a society more willing to make sacrifices for the "common good".

Personally I would take western democracy/freedoms over an ideal COVID-19 response, but there is no reason to think it didn't work like that in China.

> They have the political environment for it (more authoritarian), and a society more willing to make sacrifices for the "common good".

For a definition of "better" that most sane people wouldn't accept.

China has had many, many outbreaks in the past two years but they've all been contained locally and haven't spread to the national level.

Why is handling a medical emergency properly, strange?