"Zero-COVID’s economic toll was staggering. To pluck just a single example ...This cost them $1 billion."
This is standard journalistic nonsense and should not be allowed.
If Sarin wants to say this fine, but he should be required to say it in a non-deceptive way. He claiming that $1 billion is a lot and most people will believe him. But China's economy produces $17,000 billion a year so this is less than 1/100 of 1%. That is ridiculously tiny when talking about an economy having problems. I see this sort of thing often. No-one understands big numbers, so express them relative to something meaningful.
That was the cost to obsessively test one city for covid after one outbreak. He is using it as an anectdote and it's a good one. 1/100 of 1% of your economy is a lot for ... that. They may as well have lit the money on fire for all the good it did (in fact lighting it on fire would probably have been less economically and socially destructive.)
But one cherry picked example, even if they paid triple proves nothing. It just indicates he had no convincing data. All I'm suggesting is good standard practice for presenting large numbers. And I will bet dollars to doughnuts that you had no idea how tiny that was until I looked up Chinese GDP and worked it out for you. The left need to learn to be competent on elementary technical matters.
Economy built on a house of card that had been invented in and originally produced in the USA.
China bit off WAY more than it could chew while also attempting to thwart the economic laws of nature which more closely resemble the American system and run anathema to those of communism.
"Zero-COVID’s economic toll was staggering. To pluck just a single example ...This cost them $1 billion."
This is standard journalistic nonsense and should not be allowed.
If Sarin wants to say this fine, but he should be required to say it in a non-deceptive way. He claiming that $1 billion is a lot and most people will believe him. But China's economy produces $17,000 billion a year so this is less than 1/100 of 1%. That is ridiculously tiny when talking about an economy having problems. I see this sort of thing often. No-one understands big numbers, so express them relative to something meaningful.
That was the cost to obsessively test one city for covid after one outbreak. He is using it as an anectdote and it's a good one. 1/100 of 1% of your economy is a lot for ... that. They may as well have lit the money on fire for all the good it did (in fact lighting it on fire would probably have been less economically and socially destructive.)
But one cherry picked example, even if they paid triple proves nothing. It just indicates he had no convincing data. All I'm suggesting is good standard practice for presenting large numbers. And I will bet dollars to doughnuts that you had no idea how tiny that was until I looked up Chinese GDP and worked it out for you. The left need to learn to be competent on elementary technical matters.
Economy built on a house of card that had been invented in and originally produced in the USA.
China bit off WAY more than it could chew while also attempting to thwart the economic laws of nature which more closely resemble the American system and run anathema to those of communism.