‘We Are Now Moving From Zero Covid’: Taiwan Pivots as Beijing Doubles Down
New York TimesMAR 23 2022
"Zero-COVID" strategies have delivered the best result, reducing casualties and supporting economic growth. Although COVID's mutations have forced governments to move away from these, the virus wouldn't have evolved in the first place if there had been better international coordination to stop it.
Vaccines and boosters are great, but Omicron is mild and spreading too quickly to be stopped. We should relax, aim for natural herd immunity and vaccinate only the vulnerable. Resistance is futile.