China Might Have 65 Million COVID Cases a Week by June. How Worried Should the World Be?

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23. How to handle it has always been complex

Shutdowns early were completely necessary and saved lives. We had no idea how bad it could have been without the shutdowns. Could have easily been several million dead Americans rather than just 1 million. Then as we learned more, could treat it better, and got vaccines to the public, it kind of needed to make its way through the population.

It was always going to be nuanced. It was always going to be time phased on what was the right strategy to use and when to use it.

China had a zero Covid policy for too long and now it exploded there because there was little natural immunity built up in the population bit by bit. Now GOOers, who are incapable of understanding nuance will look at this and go, “see, we should have never had shutdowns.” Shutdowns were appropriate, they saved lives, and they bought time for us to learn more about Covid. Mandating vaccines was correct too. Republicans were wrong about Covid at every turn and are still wrong now and will be wrong going forward. They can’t grasp nuance and precautionary measures when we had so many unknowns.

Covid ultimately weakened in mortality rate, like most viruses do. We’re still going to be dealing with its aftermath for years to come. But we’re also past it being a major disruption to life here for the foreseeable future.