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.
Let's face it either with Omnicron or another variant it is likely that China will see another somewhat serious outbreak. However one of 2 things will happen. Either China will lock it down really quickly or some unfortuante chain of events will happen and it'll spread and take longer to get rid of.
Either way, China - based on every piece of evidence so far - will handle it far better than the US and with far fewer casualties.
Not to mention that if we get another variant that is bad enough that China struggles to cope with it, there's more or less a cast iron guaruntee that it will utterly devestate the US.
Yeah no matter how bad the next 5 variants are, they will always be at least slowed down by masking, vaccination, and lockdowns. Like we all said in March 2020, you have to flatten the curve to keep people from dying.
Yeah exactly that. Plus China's healthcare hasn't spent the last year and a half permanently stretched to breaking point. They prob have capacity, personnel and medical reserves the west simply hasn't.
This entire article kinda feels like watching someone shit their pants and getting all triumphant cos some of the shit might hypothetically hit some other guy next time it happens.
The dirty secret in the US is that periodic flare-ups also shut down businesses and public services (education, most notably). People laid out on their asses, service delays dragging on the economy, and capital running short-staffed just isn't described as a "lockdown" in modern western parlance anymore.
Nevermind the long-term impact of Long COVID and a pile of corpses stacked a million bodies high.
It's all just :cope: at this point. Americans will say anything to explain away the results of shit policy.