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  100% agree. China’s (and Australia’s, to be fair) mistake was not being aggressive enough with vaccination, and also relying solely on their less-effective homegrown vaccines instead of also using western ones.
context: Now Chinese can travel internationally? With covid so rampant there, other countries need to either stop or control even more incoming Chinese visitors. >
  
  You can make all the wise-cracks you want, but there are a couple of realities that are worth considering.
  The first is that China's zero-covid policy has spared them the worst of this virus until this point. They've probably fudged numbers here and there and were willing to go to extremes (like welding people into their apartments), but China has not yet faced the same challenges most countries have had with Covid-19.
  The second is that the virus ultimately beat the zero-covid strategy, and it is now beyond the control of government. China is about to face its first real wave of Covid, and the human cost is going to be staggering. >
  
  Yep. If there’s a lesson from other countries that tried zero-COVID (NZ and Australia, for example), it’s that all you’ve done is buy a little time to get everyone vaccinated. >
  
  And that actually might be well worth it.
  We won't actually know until we have solid data on outcomes... hindsight will reveal the lessons of this pandemic.