Originally Posted by
travelinmanS
The inability to change course on a bad policy is one of the downsides of an authoritarian system with one man rule. We are now seeing this play out in real time in two different countries.
Forcing everyone to line up two or three days in a row, packed together in line so that they can take a PCR test is a great way to spread a highly infectious airborne pathogen.
We seem all to agree here that China - including the SARs Hong Kong and Macao - should re-think their zero covid strategy, and that "dynamic zero covid" won't work with Omicron, either.
And I guess we shouldn't try to bring politics in here (as you seem to try), since that doesn't help with the discussion at all.