That's more like one man still making decisions around COVID, and everyone else has to obey. Pretty sure most Chinese people would rather be getting on with their lives like everyone else.

Your best counter-example is an irrational authoritarian regime unnecessarily inflicting misery on its people. Way to prove the point.

Okay but the remaining 6B people aren’t

I also know individuals that are immunocompromised in the US that still factor covid into decision making. What exactly does “the rest of the world” mean? World population minus 17% minus the rest of the people deemed unworthy of counting? What a neat and meaningful metric.