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This is legitimately confusing to me. Didn’t we learn that:

1) Lockdown do nothing

2) Vaccines are effective

Why are they locking people down? Why aren’t they just vaccinating them all?

In short, because the vaccines available in China, as it turns out, aren't all that effective at all, and the Chinese government desperately needs to save face now.

Lockdowns were extremely effective in preventing healthcare collapse in nearly all countries it was implemented. Countries that did not go into lockdown early on such as Sweden were seeing up to 15% death rated. Lockdowns allowed sufficient time for the development and distribution of effective vaccines. China unfortunately has not completed the latter step of wide distribution of an effective vaccine. Their healthcare system will collapse without lockdowns.

> Countries that did not go into lockdown early on such as Sweden were seeing up to 15% death rates.

No they weren’t. Show your source.

https://www.google.com/search?q=covid+cases+sweden&oq=covid+...

Compare the case rates vs death rates in April 2020. Cases averaged around 500 and deaths are around 50-80.

That's CFR, which is meaningless.

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