Commentary
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.
But the virus didn’t disappear and, almost three years later, a billion-plus Chinese people are just now beginning to emerge from this preposterous experiment, after the CCP recently lifted its most stringent controls. The virus is now expected to pass through the Chinese population, but the CCP was so ideologically committed to this failed lockdown policy that they won’t know how to deal with the reality of the millions of illnesses and deaths that will inevitably occur when that happens. Clearly, ideology has trumped common sense….