I still don’t understand this argument. China’s economy did significantly better than the countries that let covid spread. Most countries had their economies shrink during a time when China’s grew, and the difference was zero covid.
Zero covid IS the economically sane policy. Sick people are expensive.
I can certainly see an argument for changing the details of zero-covid. Especially when it comes to different localities responding differently.
But they went from amazing if a bit too strict protections to nearly nothing and a lot of people have already died because of it, and I don’t see how China will avoid the same problem of having millions of newly disabled people with long-covid. And again, at least based on the numbers that the west use zero-covid was a much more economically sound policy than let-it-rip. China’s economy grew, others shrank.
I still don’t understand this argument. China’s economy did significantly better than the countries that let covid spread. Most countries had their economies shrink during a time when China’s grew, and the difference was zero covid.
Zero covid IS the economically sane policy. Sick people are expensive.
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I can certainly see an argument for changing the details of zero-covid. Especially when it comes to different localities responding differently.
But they went from amazing if a bit too strict protections to nearly nothing and a lot of people have already died because of it, and I don’t see how China will avoid the same problem of having millions of newly disabled people with long-covid. And again, at least based on the numbers that the west use zero-covid was a much more economically sound policy than let-it-rip. China’s economy grew, others shrank.