>Reality aside, there are millions of people in China who are alive today who would not be if they had followed the US' policy. That is a bad argument with no

>Reality aside, there are millions of people in China who are alive today who would not be if they had followed the US' policy. That is a bad argument with no bearing on the current situation. As the virus has mutated the strategy to deal with the virus needs to change. Early on China's strategy was effective at preventing deaths (the costs to achieve this could be debated), but now the virus has changed and that strategy is proving to be a terrible one with a massive cost to the country and their population. The significantly higher transmissibility means that spread cannot be prevented (only controlled) and the availability of vaccines means that deaths are far less common now.