Lockdown affects 13 million people, who need permission to leave residential compounds or the city, as Xian accounts for most of the country’s new infections.
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Can any US city afford such a lock-down?
To carry out such a draconian measure, country needs to work perfectly like a clock: hard-working and highly disciplined workforce, good rate of saving, a lot of high-tech for logistic and delivery, not to mention a high quality health care workforce and good leadership from top government to district-level authority.
Now look at the US, with its semi-barbarian, lazy, indisciplined people, low level of technologies (compared to China), low level of saving, poor quality healthcare workforce (on average, not niche areas), how can it execute a lock-down, even in a very small city. Predictably, people would die in their homes from starvation or sickness. Within one month, protest would erupt, chaos would follow and lock-down would become a child play.
A good example and case study is Vietnam, with a clear difference between disciplined, high-saving north and "freedom loving", poorly educated, low saving, lazy south. When the whole country was put into lock-down from July to Sep 2021 (same policy countrywide), cases in the north came to nearly zero, while in "freedom-loving" southern provinces, cases still skyrocketed.
