I can’t understand it. Look at what Covid is doing right now. It’s fucking awful. Why couldn’t they just stay with Zero-COVID till everyone got vaccinated? Why haven’t they vaccinated everyone by now? It’s so frustrating. Who the fuck cares if someone assholes protested with blank paper? Just…why?
1.4 billion people. Also China did export a ton of Covid medication, not seldom to countries of the "global south". With deals that were better for the receiving countries than some that were offered by the West.
No good deed goes unpunished. That said, they could've done more in terms of boosters, but they did keep the vast majority of their productive capacities up. This is quite impressive.
I do agree with others though, that the Covid strains with shorter incubation period on one hand and more ability to infect before the viral load is high enough to be picked up on tests made the strategy more costly and less effective (but still much more effective than in the west). Lets also remember that the amount of cases in China are low and they learned a lot in how to deal with people that are infected and have heavy symptoms. The percentage of people in hospitals dying dropped a lot and that also changes the situation somewhat.
What others did point out too is that they did vaccinate and if you look at risk groups or people with lower income they don't have to shy away from comparisons with precarious people even in some OECD countries.