Covid-19 handled better in China

Regardless of the COVID resurgence and strict lockdown there, I feel the Chinese authorities have, overall, handled the pandemic in their nation quite pointedly.

Watching the little amount of news feed allowed to leave the nation in Autumn 2019, I was somewhat amused by TV images of some citizens being literally dragged — a few even invertedly by their legs! — back into their residences to help contain viral transmission.

As the months passed and Covid-19 became a global pandemic, I couldn’t help but notice how

China’s strict handling of its own outbreak, while allowing little rights and freedoms to its people (and maybe even internal/external big business), likely enabled a relatively short duration of its initial crisis.

Perhaps with greater democratic freedom can come weaker national security, and vice versa. While I wouldn’t exchange my (Western) freedom for such national security, it is still foolish to pretend a nationalsecurity sacrifice isn’t being made in exchange. Frank Sterle Jr. White Rock, B.C.