I've used this shit like three times in the last week lol EVERGREEN: https://fair.org/home/nyt-china-needs-to-rethink-its-not-letting-people-die-from-covid-policy/

The argument that China should show “higher tolerance for Covid” comes down to the “punishing economic and social cost” and “pandemic fatigue” cited by the “health experts” in the September 13 Times piece. The economic cost is easier to calculate: With its zero-Covid policy, China’s GDP grew 2.3% last year, one of the few major economies to have a positive growth rate in 2020, while the US shrank by 3.5% with its lots-of-Covid strategy.

Climbing out of that hole, the US is expected to do well this year, with the IMF projecting a 6.4% growth rate. But China is expected to do even better, with an estimated 8.4% growth rate. If China is paying an economic cost for having 99.3% fewer Covid deaths, it’s not a huge cost.

The “social cost” of “pandemic fatigue” is harder to quantify. But if, like most of our readers, you live in the United States, ask yourself: Do you feel like you are free of “pandemic fatigue” because you live in a country that has a “higher tolerance of Covid”? Do you think that most citizens of China—which reopened schools for in-person learning in September 2020, not 2021—would happily exchange their coronavirus anxiety for ours?

“Misery loves company” is an old saying. It’s not a good principle for health reporting, though."

China's policy is only a burden on fuckup failed-state capitalist shitholes who want the Chinese to sacrifice their lives so we can have our treats. Which, AS WE'VE FUCKING SEEN from the economic toll of infections running wild in said failed-state crapitalist shitholes, would only wreck their ability to produce those goods by sickening and killing their workforce -- suddenly the Chinese just "don't want to work," as capitalist mongrels love to say about dead and disabled people. Capitalism is such a fucking brain-dead system run by fucking idiots.