zero covid is not a possibility
and neither is zero risk, having disney land open in the first place shows that china has accepted some risk is ok
Zero covid is a possibility if your government is competent. In a country where there is already virtually no covid, it’s not any more of a covid risk to have Disneyland open than it would be a measles risk to have Disneyland open.
sorry but a 100% elimination of a virus so transmissible whilst being asymptomatic and testing negative while it’s in incubation is realistically impossible for the foreseeable future. Obviously heavily reducing the spread is good as China has done. But covid still exists and is spreading in the country ,as evidenced by the post above. If they want zero covid/risk everyone would be in mandatory isolation but obviously that is unrealistic so they accept some risk
That’s not how eliminating viruses works - just because there’s currently some transmission doesn’t mean that it’s impossible to get to a point of elimination. The elimination of polio wasn’t strictly dependent on quickly identifying and isolating people who were infected — obviously this is helpful and containing transmission (like what’s happening here) is very important, but it’s possible to eradicate a virus in a population with robust social programs supporting the effort even if there is some margin of error around false-negative test results and vaccine failure.
