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In the UK we have a fraction of the population of China, and we did half arsed lockdown and lost nearly quarter million lifes! Imagine the death count in China if they went Sweden mode! Their zero covid policy is an example of putting population ahead of economy and make every other nation jealous.

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Except there's no such thing as a zero covid, anywhere. Eventually you get covid and if you're susceptible (mainly old), you die.

But that's beside the point.

The goal of the lockdown is to contains spreads and reduce death, reduce the chance of giving the virus an open field to mutate and yield new variants. Of course it’s never going to be zero death, but their numbers fared better than even smaller nations https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/china/

Their released numbers. Least we forget this is the country that declared war on sparrows and lost.

> Except there's no such thing as a zero covid, anywhere. Eventually you get covid and if you're susceptible (mainly old), you die.

Had everyone followed the New Zealand model in the first year until vaccines were widespread and available, the virus would have gotten extinct just as Influenza Yamagata strain.

Japan closed its borders for almost three years and it didn't save them at all.

You mean everybody should just be an island with low and very dispersed population, with relatively high development levels at the start and high degrees of self sufficiency wrt basic needs? Why, why didn't they all just do that then!

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