In the US, COVID-19 has been steadily declining since January in both cases and deaths. In places like China, South Korea and New Zealand, officials who once boasted of an extremely effective pandemic are now facing dramatic increases in cases and deaths. If zero covid worked, it would not be needed again. This article is delusional. – Jay Bhattacharya (@DrJBhattacharya) March 28, 2022 China has implemented perhaps the most draconian measures in the world to combat COVID-19, developing advanced technology to monitor every movement of every citizen, locking people in their homes if exposed to the virus and closing entire cities at the first sign of a small epidemic. . The figures reported by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), which are disputed by many experts, paint a picture of a vast country that keeps the spread of the virus at an impressively limited level. According to the CCP, the country had an average of less than 200 cases per day from March 2020 to February 2022. Now, the country is flooded with epidemics. Nearly a third of the country’s total pandemic cases occurred in March. On March 19, CCP authorities reported the first deaths from COVID-19 in the country since January 2021. Military reserves have been activated to prevent people from fleeing cities or even buildings where cases have been identified. Parts of Shanghai, China’s financial center, and its 26 million inhabitants have been locked up. Things have gotten so bad that the government, which prides itself on the “zero COVID” strategy, which claims that the authorities can reduce the virus to zero with the right measures, is reportedly reconsidering the zero-COVID target. The strategy has become unfounded as the virus proves that the spread is inevitable, no matter how hard a police state can lock up. In Hong Kong, authorities are preparing to finally begin easing some restrictions after the city faced the worst wave of the pandemic in March. From September 2021 to February 8, 2022, Hong Kong reported zero deaths from COVID-19, while the total number of deaths remained stagnant at 213 since the pandemic began. Now, just two months later, the total number of deaths in the city is 7,825. Ninety-seven percent of the city’s deaths occurred within two months, two years after the pandemic and more than a year after the vaccines were made available. (RELATED: Biden government launches COVID.Gov for 2 years in pandemic) Some experts said South Korea had the best pandemic response in the world. Through strict surveillance and detection tools, the country was able to pursue a zero-COVID-19 strategy without resorting to the draconian lockdowns seen in many other parts of the world. South Korea’s policies were highly invasive, with infected residents monitoring their phone and credit card data to track their movements again, close contacts with infected people required two weeks of isolation with a double check-in day from state screens COVID-19, and those infected with the virus were sent to state isolation facilities. Everything seemed to be in vain in March 2022, with daily cases peaking at more than 621,000. The death toll in the country more than doubled in March alone. New Zealand was initially praised by some for its “Zero Covid” strategy. However, despite ongoing restrictions, mask orders, lockdowns and vaccine passports, New Zealand currently has the 5th highest Covid rate in the world. pic.twitter.com/LgULsIRKVz – James Melville (@JamesMelville) March 28, 2022 New Zealand set a new record for COVID-19 deaths on Tuesday, and its seven-day death toll surpassed that of the United States this week for the first time during a pandemic. South Korea and Hong Kong have had the highest number of deaths per capita in the world in the last seven days. Many COVID-19 hawks in the US and Europe have praised the response in places such as New Zealand and South Korea. Proponents of Zero-COVID hailed these countries as children of a poster for what was possible if only the government had the will to do what was right. Now, it seems that these jurisdictions are simply proving that the virus is inevitable, and beyond vaccination, there is so much that can be done to prevent mass spread and actual death.
