Because it's unsustainable. You need to look at the current death rate when comparing with Canada. Which is fairly low. If you're actually looking at the num

Because it's unsustainable. You need to look at the current death rate when comparing with Canada. Which is fairly low. If you're actually looking at the numbers keep in mind the criteria is quite broad in terms of what counts as a Covid19 death (e.g. anyone that had a positive Covid test within 30 days of death even if the cause of death was not related). Nobody knows for sure what's the death rate right now. That said you do need to have the population vaccinated with a good vaccine. So I do agree China could fare worse than Canada. The other thing to keep in mind is that Canada pretty ended all and any measures at this point in time. There's a range of responses between lock down an entire city for one case and no restrictions at all. Another piece of supporting evidence: "Excess mortality fell nationally from the end of February and through the spring of 2022 From the end of February and through the spring of 2022, the weekly number of deaths in Canada fell generally within the range of what was expected had there been no pandemic. This same trend was observed in Ontario and Quebec, despite COVID-19 deaths in Quebec remaining high." https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quotidien/220908/dq220908d-eng.htm https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quotidien/220908/dq220... But... If your point is that Canada got here by taking a fairly large number of deaths, ~47k (+/-) for a population of 38M and China avoided most of that (assuming we can trust their data, questionable) ... then I'll concede you have some point, but still - unsustainable. A lot of Canada's deaths happened before we had vaccines and presumably with a higher % amongst unvaccinated populations after.