Okay, but an aspirational "Zero-COVID" policy seems to be working out better than the US's "burrying-our-heads-in-the-sand" policy.
I get it may have an impact on economy but, seriously, how can people value human lives so little?
I get it may have an impact on economy but, seriously, how can people value human lives so little?
I would suggest reading up on how the zero COVID approach taken by the Chinese government has impacted its citizens, and how it’s really very much divorced from any pragmatic notion of saving lives.
They are just going to have the millions of people die later when everybody catches covid, and in the meantime are inflicting lots of misery in their attempts to delay it.
Also the more cases there are the more chances for mutation. The reasoning is like one step away from antivaxer logic.
I'm guessing not though, if daily COVID deaths are anything to go by.
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/nchs_press_releases/2022/...
There was time to be scared like small children when covid came and nobody knew anything and everybody was afraid to certain extent. Since then we know much more, covid mutated to being much less deadly and its in proper 'meh' category. Or are you equally concerned about flu?
Anybody spinning it as something more is doing so for some political reasons.
"I don't want to survive... I want to live!"
I don't think any policy is or was perfect. All are an imperfect compromise attempting to balance preventing unnecessary illness and death with the rest of our needs - to produce, consume, be social, etc.
So overall I'm reasonably OK with the attempt to prevent overwhelming community transmission early on at the expense of some economic activity while buying time to get vaccines and treatments researched and distributed. It wasn't perfect, and lots of people are not happy about it, and millions of people still ended up dead. It might have been worse; maybe it could have been better.
But given what we know now, and that we have vaccines available, and a seemingly less dangerous strain dominating, it seems like strict lockdowns are all but entirely proven to no longer be the best attempt at balance and compromise for the overall well-being of the people (and the economy).
We could reduce a ridiculous number of deaths by reducing the speed limit on all roads and highways to 25mph, but we don’t. The trade off isn’t worth it to most people.
Zero COVID policies made some amount of sense when we thought a vaccine that would work really well was around the corner, as the effect on daily life would be temporary.