Dozens of hearses queued outside a Beijing crematorium on Wednesday, even as China reported no new COVID-19 deaths in its growing outbreak, sparking criticism of its virus accounting as the capital braces for a surge of cases.
Source: Hearses queue at Beijing crematorium, even as China reports no new COVID deaths
did the China zero-covid policy ending after the protests in late 2022-11 be a good strategy by waiting until a less deadly variant (omicron) become dominant? so everyone’s going to get it, best to wait until it’s less deadly before opening up? ~2m dead of 1400m people is 0.001/m, whereas USA (1.1m / 330m =0.003/m) or Canada (.049m / 37m = .001/m) which matches this (ignoring the likely incorrect by huge factor for China… unless it’s true… will we ever know?)
isn’t this wrong thinking? new variants are not inevitably to be lesser? can go either way on multiple dimension/axes (transmissibility, deadliness, etc?)
“Paul Tambyah, President of the Asia Pacific Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infection, supported that view.
“I do not think that this is a threat to the world,” he said. “The chances are that the virus will behave like every other human virus and adapt to the environment in which it circulates by becoming more transmissible and less virulent.”
