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I'm not sure Zero Covid was as far as China was willing to go. Keep in mind it made little sense for China to go all in on eradicating COVID if everyone else was gonna play plague rat.
If the world had been on board the result might have looked very different.
We are never going to eradicate it with current science. This is an airborne, highly contagious, and sometimes asymptomatic virus. Once it spread to the general population, it was
It was over before it began. Yes, millions of people died due to mismanagement, but once it took root there was no stopping it from becoming endemic globally.
We don’t even need hazmat suits, just for everyone to agree to wear n95s. We got lucky with the severity of this virus. Imagine if it was the Spanish flu again, or something worse.