Brian Giesbrecht: It’s Not Only in China That Ideology Trumped Health-Care Common Sense

Brian Giesbrecht: It’s Not Only in China That Ideology Trumped Health-Care Common Sense
An epidemic control worker guards the gate of a government quarantine facility in Beijing on Dec. 7, 2022. Kevin Frayer/Getty Images
Brian Giesbrecht
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When COVID-19 first appeared in Wuhan, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) strategists seized upon a radical plan to prevent the spread of the virus. Instead of adopting a pandemic plan to protect the oldest and weakest, while keeping daily life functioning as normally as possible, the CCP  did the opposite and initiated a radical lockdown. Businesses were closed, workers sent home, and infected people sent to quarantine camps. Normal life came to an end because of COVID Zero—a plan unknown to both science and common sense.

Brian Giesbrecht
Brian Giesbrecht
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Brian Giesbrecht is a retired judge and a senior fellow with the Frontier Centre for Public Policy.
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