Well, despite I'm not care too much about the covid, it's still pretty interesting to me that my area got several positive case. For context, yes, I'm in China and China is still somehow fighting with covid.
"Interesting" is not the best word here, since it's not interesting for those who test positive. But I can't find a proper word, so sorry about that. I'm so excited (not emotional excited but physically excited, like fight or run) that now I'm planning things for the future lockdown background in my head.
I know, covid is unlikely to kill me, but a poor managed government will.
Although a lot of people in China didn't get killed by covid, they do get killed because of covid. Hospital stop receiving patients. Young and old dead because they didn't get medical care in time.
And I have been forced to take covid test every 3 days in the past year and there are systems to track your location and path and decide if you can go outside freely or should be transferred for isolation no matter how you argue. And the place for isolation is something poorly clean and managed, people don't get enough food, water, electricity and medical care.
What is the cost of keep the number down? I'm not government employees, it's not my business to make such a big decision that will influence millions of people. But from what I see and what I experienced, I don't think China did a good job on it.
Well, the bottom line is that they kept people safe. The numbers show that overwhelmingly, without a doubt. Not even close.
It depends how you define safe. People in North Korea is pretty safe too. But there is no life.
@skyblond
You should be thankful that you live in China during the pandemic.* At least your government cares about the health and lives of its people.
Here in the US, we've had 1,077,880 deaths from COVID-19. That's more than a million dead who didn't have to die. Our public officials actually did everything they could to PROMOTE the spread of the virus, rather than fighting it. They wanted more people to become sick and die.
In China you've had 15,780 deaths total. A tiny fraction of the death rate of the US. Your government cares about the health of its people and you should be thankful for that.
* - (but not necessarily thankful for other problems not associated with the pandemic)