Huh? Even with vaccination. 1 million deaths in US. I repeat, 1 million.

If China did follow the west, causing 4 million deaths. People would bitch and moan anyway. Whatever choice they make, there are always haters.

I honestly think it was a smart but hard decision to delay opening up. Virus do not want the host to die, they also want to survive and spread. So they mutate to a less lethal virus. Old and frail will have problems tho.

It is also smart to wait and see how the vaccine performed. Vaccines were rushed during development, so who really could predict how it performed against covid over time.