One question I hope future historians of this plague will grapple with is - What if China had not locked down Wuhan in January?

I will say that singular policy reaction is the greatest influence China has exerted over the world in my lifetime.

I cannot imagine lockdowns becoming the policy choice pretty much across all of the West if China hadn't put it on the table. This lays bare how pathetic this whole thing has been - from then on, it wasnt even a debate.

From seeding that idea in January, we now have lockdown believers everywhere and it has now fit right into the usual political dividing lines. We've come a long way from when we thought economic change would drive political change in China. It's all very pathetic

500 million children out of school across the world, some of them damaged for life. Between Germany, France and UK, 30 million wages now being paid by the government. More than 30 million jobs lost in America. More than a decade of poverty work undone

No one had an intellectual response to lockdown as a policy choice that began with "China, imma let you finish but..."

Just pathetic