Starving people, killing pets - all in the name of zero COVID. This should make your blood boil, right, GWB? You don't support this stuff anymore, do you? Very hard to watch this. This is the most underreported story in the world right now.
The U.S. was never locked down like this. We still went to the supermarket, put gas in our cars, went to the Mall, ate at restuarants....
Some people were locked down, though not to this extent, of course. Many restaurants were closed and other businesses. But people could still go get gas and food. Still, people pushing zero COVID (like GWB who is rather quiet on this) or the Australian government seem to be avoiding the topic like...er...a plague. On Twitter, that Eric Feng Deng guy who was the Chief Covidian of the world is now looking at this with alarm, though everyone is responding to him that he's partly responsible for this type of horseshit.
I never pushed Zero Covid. In fact I have stated that China’s Zero Covid policy is unsustainable when facing a very infectious disease (Omicron) for which a vaccine to prevent serious illness is readily available. Strict lockdowns can be used at the beginning of a pandemic when few treatments and no vaccine is available. After this restrictions should be based on the prevalence of Covid in the local community. As the level goes up their should be restrictions added (masks, distancing, no crowded venues, etc.). As the Covid levels drop in a community the restrictions should be removed in layered manner. This is how proper public health policy works — as outlined by WHO and other health organizations. Not that Florida attempts to follow any proper health policy — DeSantis doesn’t even track and report Covid cases, variants, hospitalizations, etc. It is next to impossible for Florida to figure out if a new Covid variant is present in the state much less figure out the true case and hospitalization levels.
Sure, whatever buddy. All the Covidians are backtracking now. You supported Australia's policy many times. That's a zero covid approach. You support locking people up. You support locking the unvaccinated up, keeping them from buying food, calling them plague rats, firing them from their jobs, removing all basic freedoms and rights from anyone who disagrees with your approach. You're right up there with the Chinese party's beliefs. You and your ilk pushed these policies. Own it, buddy. This is all your doing.