– A volunteer packs vegetables for residents of Huajin community Wuchang District of Wuhan, central China’s Hubei Province, Feb. 23, 2020. More than 10,000 people in Wuhan have applied for a volunteer project, shortly after its kick-off on Sunday morning. Authorities announced the project of recruiting volunteers to buy and […]
A far lower cost than the alternative.
China currently has a cumulative death rate for COVID-19 of ±3.21 deaths per million population. The world’s aggregate death rate is ±722 per million (roughly 225×). North America and Europe are almost tied with North America’s death rate ±2180 per million (679×).
China’s current death toll to COVID-19 is 4636. If they had gone the world aggregate route, that number would be ±1.04 million dead. If they had gone the European/North American route that would be ±3.15 million dead.
So at what cost? Three million fewer dead (plus change) than if they’d been as brain-damaged as the west.