Personally I think the Covid-19 was handled much better by the western world. Look at how China is doing right now. Their population has almost no exposure to

Personally I think the Covid-19 was handled much better by the western world. Look at how China is doing right now. Their population has almost no exposure to the virus, meaning every outbreak is still significant like it was for us in the early days. We've moved beyond that where it's now a fact of life and no longer hampering us or saturating the health system. We have enough natural defenses along with the vaccines to give us adequate protection and we can live our lives again. We do control but it's on the health system impact, not the spread of the virus as such. And letting our immune system do the job it evolved over hundreds of thousands of years to do, supplemented by vaccines when necessary is really working out well for us. Meanwhile China is stuck in a groundhog day loop of zero-covid policy that is really harming their society. I think in the western world we've handled it really well, we've accepted the inevitable and dealt with it in a way that had the least impact on society. Our focus on balancing freedom with prevention has really worked out well. I do think a zero-covid policy could have worked but it would have been in February/March 2020 when total containment was still on the cards. In April/May when it spread to the entire world we were already past that point. At that point 'living with it with the least impact' became the only possible option. I'm not a Trump follower at all but in Europe we have essentially adopted the same policy as the US did without the ridiculous misinformation of injecting bleach etc :P