Shanghai video overwhelms Chinese censor, gets 400M views
One thing that I observe about how China deals with COVID: leadership assumes that they have perfect control over perfect people.<p>Therefore they try these type of solutions like complete lock-down of a city of 26m people.<p>They assume that they are perfect as leaders, so planning is perfect and takes everything into consideration.<p>They assume that people will execute their orders perfectly, even under extreme hardship (hunger, lack of medication, being separated from children in hospital, being separated from sick parents, etc).<p>Of course none of that is true.<p>For all its failures, democracy at least has taught us to incorporate the human imperfection into the process and the decisions.<p>We have to compensate for human imperfection, the same way a good engineer takes into consideration the imperfection of the materials, imperfection of signals, numerical imperfections in algorithms, etc.<p>I am curious when China will adjust their model&#x2F;plan for COVID to consider the vast amount of counter-evidence that is accumulating.