Comments by "Siana Gearz" (@SianaGearz) on "China’s Lockdown Problem" video.

  1. I do think the world, especially US&Europe has done a MASSIVE mistake by not treating the disease in the first few weeks as if it was exceptionally dangerous and super deadly, just to err on the side of caution, a very temporary true zero case goal. Maybe it could have been stopped dead in its tracks and we would have avoided the whole everything that followed. This is something i advocated back in Feb-March 2020 but i'm a nobody, i decide nothing, and indeed i have no relevant professional background or advanced knowledge, but then, it's not like politicians put epidemiologists in the driving seat on this either; i saw no opportunity that it could have worked several months later as the situation developed. In turn China having to deal with the issue now, is from it being reimported from the rest of the world. Developing world got it from the first world, and there it kept mutating and couldn't be stopped. As to longer term policies, i don't have a strong definitive opinion. It pains me to see people die, and it pains me that some people are so dumb as to bring themselves and people they encounter in easily avoidable increased danger; but the even semi lockdown state with limited freedom is also insanely depressing and has consequences as well, as it goes on for months and years.
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  2. There is actually a zero-tuberculosis policy in a lot of the world, especially used to be commonplace before modern medication came about. You would be contact traced and there would be a trace and quarantine for everyone that you got in touch with. There are a lot of communicable diseases where zero case policy is actually implemented without it really affecting the life of society as such, since it's literally zero to single cases and the measures can be designed accordingly. Zero HIV might not have been politically desired. Also if you infect someone on purpose or by avoiding the necessary measures while you know you have it, you can expect several years of jail time.
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  3. What other ways?
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