Are China covid numbers accurate? Or is it just counting internally, dealing with it internally, and reporting externally zero cases?
Would it be even desirable to keep your population 100% isolated from a global pandemic while the virus keeps mutating?
there is zero approaches between "open everything up no restrictions ever again" and "everything must be completely locked down on first sign of anything, no exceptions"
And then to reference australia, which would have taken a much more moderate approach to re-opening if the federal side of things wasn't keen on kamikaze'ing their reputations by trying to kill everyone
or in shorter words, it feels misleading to pick a country that intentionally messed up its reopening, as an example of what could happen to a much more orderly nation
One one hand, CoronaVac and Sinopharm aren't so hot and Omicron may be more contagious than measles. On the other, the Chinese seem to be amazing at lockdowns. The article comes to the conclusion that the latter is best for China and the rest of the world, but it will be a delicate balance. For the sake of the Chinese people, I hope that if one of the Chinese mRNA candidates isn't ready soon, the government puts its fragile ego aside and imports a foreign vaccine.