Liberal Forum

For all the criticism of the Trump policies surrounding COVID, China is of note right now. The zero COVID policies were extremely draconian and the lapse of the program should have been anticipated by authorities. Instead of letting the virus create herd immunity, everyone in China has almost no immunity to the virus and now over a billion people are at risk of becoming sick and ending up in the overwhelmed hospitals of the Middle Kingdom. While I won't completely heap complete praise of Trump since he also encouraged people not to receive the vaccine and other Western nations followed the same pattern, the policy of completely eliminating the virus potential was probably a bad call by China. Masking up probably just prolonged exposure to the virus.