To be fair, along with China, New Zealand may be the only #ZeroCovid country where this policy may prove to have been the right choice. (I guess it will depend on how they manage the exit.) I just don't think it could have been replicated in Europe or the US.
What's crazy is that many people pushed for this #ZeroCovid nonsense in places where it probably could never have worked and at a time when, even if it could have worked earlier, that boat had already sailed a long time ago.
Hence all the nonsense in Europe at the beginning of the year about how we just needed to do a 4-week long hard lockdown and we'd reach the #ZeroCovid paradise because people took seriously ridiculous models that systematically and massively fail.
The people who peddled this stupid shit, such as the neoliberal morons, would like us to memory hole this episode, but I remember and I'm not going to forget anytime soon, because I want to make sure that I never ever again trust them on any topic I have not looked into myself.
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