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[–] queermunist@lemmy.ml 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

And that “tantrum” was people literally having the doors of their homes welded shut so that they couldn’t leave.

That never happened. They welded some doors on apartment buildings so that only one entrance was available, and then screened that entrance for signs of fever. They did this because those doors did not have locking mechanisms, because usually having multiple entrances is a good thing. In the specific context of the pandemic, they wanted to track everyone.

And it worked. There's a reason 1.1 million people died in the US and 121k died in China.

China's Zero COVID policy was among the best in the world. Obviously they never accomplished Zero COVID, but they saved countless lives while we were marched to our deaths.