This is it. From what I read, many experts say the initial hardcore lockdowns in China were overkill and they could’ve done with less.

But it’s just that the West did nothing. For months. The capitalist cult of infinite growth was entirely unwilling to accept even the tiniest dent in their short-term returns, so in their endless delusion they just pretended it didn’t exist until it was way, way too late.

Scientists were screaming and begging them to do something, anything, but they didn’t. Because the magic money line forbade it and they cannot think further ahead than the next fiscal quarter.

China did something and wow, their economy was way better off for it in the long-term (1 year is what, like 4 quarters? That’s an eternity!)