Don’t cheer for China to fail—learn from our own pandemic failures and stop sacrificing our health and our children’s health on the altar of short-term economic growth.

The long-term pain on our future is not worth it

Since the start of the pandemic, far-right groups have conflated life-saving public health measures with arbitrary restrictions on personal freedom. Increasingly, however, mainstream US media have adopted this far-right framing in their coverage of China’s COVID-19 public health strategy. An article published this week in The Atlantic described China’s …