The History Of Covid In China (January 2023)

 

The earthshaking news on the Covid front are the developments in China. As case and death numbers in China are skyrocketing, people need to know the following.

In the first few months of the pandemic, China had in actuality 17-18 million cases and 1,160,000 deaths by mid-February 2020. It was truly an epidemic even though many of these cases and deaths were due to the Five-g rollout. When China instituted draconian lockdowns, actual cases numbers dropped from 8 million a month to approximately 340,000 a month. Simultaneously, real death numbers dropped from a half million per month to 8000 a month.

When Omicron BF.7 variant was released by a Taiwanese lab, actual case and death numbers per month increased to approximately over six million and nearly 19,000 respectively. If it had not been for these highly restrictive lockdowns, the monthly totals of cases and deaths for China would have been 25 million and 75,000 respectively. These lockdowns in 2022 decreased the actual totals by 80%.

It is a testament that air-tight lockdowns did obviously halt the transmission of Covid throughout China. However, was it worth it considering the financial and human rights costs? After all, the Covid pathogen has to be dealt with eventually as it will not go anywhere. It will have to be allowed to "burn through" the population.

All a lockdown can do is prepare the nation and its people to tackle a "pandemic" at a proper time. It merely delays the eventual "burn through" phase that the opportunistic pathogen needs to affect the entire population. It certainly does not cure "what is out there". 

In 2023, it is estimated that China will have 300 million cases and over 900,000 deaths. Hopefully, after three years of such harsh measures, it has the tools, infrastructure, and staff to focus on the treatment of people who get sick from this illness. 

The lockdowns in China, as harsh as they were, did reduce the case numbers by 96% and the death numbers by 98% for 22 months. Even after the purported leak of BF.7 variant in that Taiwan lab in December 2021, the lockdowns did decrease the potential case and death numbers totals by 80%.

While the lockdowns had gone on for too long, something that strict should not be immediately and suddenly stopped. Those lockdowns should have been phased out in a gradual manner so that the transition and follow-up phases are effective to establish normalcy.

China spent too much of its resources building hospitals. Medicine is best practiced when people are kept out of hospitals. That nation's government should have focused on supplying medicines,spices, and steamers to its 1.45 billion people, particularly Ivermectin.

India has the same population as China. That nation has been effective in stifling Covid through the widespread and aggressive distribution of Ivermectin. After three years, only 3% of its population has been effected and their death rate is only overall 1%. They had a stiff lockdown for 10 weeks before they gradually but effectively eased such restrictions. Nothing was rushed. These systematic policies have helped that nation's people live with Covid.