What that proves is if you don't have lockdowns across the board they don't work because the places that don't lock down continue the spread and also the mutations of the virus. Lockdowns worked in China and would have worked here if there wasn't opposition. Now if you had a forward thinking mind you would realize that we are not in the clear with the vaccines because parts of the world are not getting them and will not get them for a long time if ever.
We have no idea what happened in China. We do know that other countries, like New Zealand and Australia, did lockdowns. They only work as long as everyone stays locked down. As soon as they don't, the virus spreads. Both are basically islands and neither seems to mind trashing their economies. We do not know all of the internals in those countries either so the long-term damage is yet to be determined.
Not only are we not in the clear, but the virus likely will never be gone. We will deal with it for years. We will learn to live with it. Again, we have yet to assess the long-term damage done here by what we have done. I believe the hotwash on this will determine that we did little right and much wrong and that the long-term damage was worse than the damage from the virus.
But hey, if you want someone to pop over and weld your door shut as they did in China, I'm sure someone would oblige!
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