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  If by option you mean the government knew damn well Americans are too damn exceptional wear masks much less to ever allow effective isolation so COVID can actually go away so they had to rely on vaccines and people getting numb to the deaths, then yes.
context: Still underreported I’m sure >
  
  In a few months they'll have even more ghost towns >
  
  China has been lying about their numbers from the start. >
  
  You had me in the first 4 words ngl >
  
  It was only a matter of time before their crisis got so far out of control that they couldn't hide it anymore even though it was only hidden from their people and not the rest of the world.
  Their government must be so embarrassed that they're finally living what the rest of us went through in 2020 because of their idiotic policies of control over their people instead of safety FOR their people. Authoritarian morons. >
  
  
  living what the rest of us went through in 2020 
  
  You mean when the US government put stakeholders of companies before the safety of the American people by letting it rip? >
  
  If you want to look at it as a US vs China response I wouldn't say the US did great by any stretch.  But at least in the west people had the option to self isolate and then receive effective vaccines that were created and rolled out in record time based on sound science or be idiots that infect themselves through willful ignorance instead of being forced to lock down for years only to have their government do a 180 after record protesting and go through the same sort of death toll everyone else already did.