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Maybe people are more important than cars in China.
by omegaworks 4y ago
Maybe people are more important than cars in China.
- usrn 4y agoYou can say things like "people are more important than production" and you're technically right, but if you shut down the production all those people starve. When you're talking about things at this scale you have to think with a little more nuance than that.
- rnk 4y agoThey will figure out how to distribute food better over time even with the shutdowns. They could then have economic shutdown longer. But the impact of that economic shutdown is unclear.
- jiveturkey 4y agoI'm not entirely sure you read the comment correctly. Covid is highly transmissible. A covid-zero policy is untenable. Shutting down essentially everything (including cars) is not going to protect the people.
- omegaworks 4y agoWe're at one million dead in the US. China has five times our population and has 5,217 deaths. Covid-zero is not perfect, but it has been effective.
- jiveturkey 4y agoMore like 1.7 million. (still quite good, I suppose, for having 5x the population) https://www.forbes.com/sites/georgecalhoun/2022/01/02/beijing-is-intentionally-underreporting-chinas-covid-death-rate-part-1/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/georgecalhoun/2022/01/02/beijin...