https://www.cnbc.com/2022/02/07/chinas-zero-covid-policy-will-not-work-with-omicron-epidemiologist.html
China is "uniquely at risk" to omicron, Osterholm said, for a combination of reasons: Early studies suggest its Sinovac and Sinopharm vaccines are "not very effective" against the variant, and at the same time China's success at preventing the spread of Covid so far means it has a very large population that remains vulnerable.
They're talking about it like it's a good thing to experience multiple waves of a pandemic.
They seem to think it’s good for them. Not that it means it’s good for the rest of us…
There's a show called The Great that's a fictionalized history of Catherine the Great where one of the Serfs gets pox and the courts response is to just throw all the serfs in a bonfire and burn them because "we can't have it getting into the palace"