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The recent outbreak in the Chinese city of Xian has fueled some of the most complicated covid countermeasures to date. Authorities have shut down the entire city of thirteen million people, end businesses, schools and factories, imposing a virtual space arrest on all residents. House is a crime. It is not even allowed to buy food. Instead, bags of vegetables (leeks, cabbage, broccoli) will be given to confined residents. an inflamed person. The people’s economy is totally paralyzed. Covid containment policies clearly imply a trade-off between economic outcomes and public fitness outcomes and, of course, are mutually interdependent. Strict measures...
