I find both hilarious and sad that a country of billions can be run and managed according to one ego that will make deluded, impossible policy decisions like: "We try to not get our world's largest population any infections from a world wide, rapidly evolving virus, because we say so.' It so obviously going to fail, yet the Chinese can't do anything because changing or adapting would make some super rich Chinese guy embarrassed, so instead millions will die that could have been prevented. But the Chinese leadership is not embarrassed by millions of dying peasants, only by being told they are wrong and made a dumb, stupid, impossible policy decision.