*Lifting zero-Covid policies in China could risk 1.6m deaths, says study.*

I admire the spirit of the zero-Covid strategy -- ready to go to the mat to prevent a massive outbreak. If it succeeds, it will greatly reduce the harm caused by the disease in China. They ought to be somewhat less rigid about many details -- that is Communist authoritarianism at work.

However, if it can't possibly succeed, it is better to make a careful plan for changing the strategy, than to keep trying it and failing and stay in lockdown ad infinitum.