They’re doing it right. Notice how its not everybody. Its only those who are at the most risk from Covid. Everybody else needs to carry on working, going to school, etc.
This is what a sane policy for every country would have looked like.
They are also shutting down the whole country from Oct 30 to Nov 7.
"President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday approved a proposal put forward by the government to declare non-working days from October 30 to November 7 across Russia in an effort to curb the latest wave of the pandemic."
ok, let’s say that’s a sane policy for 1K deaths a day.
The US is at 1,600 deaths a day last worldometer.
And, the US has moved on from elderly deaths with over 85% vaccinated, and those most vulnerable already died. The new age group being hospitalized is 40-60yo’ds. So who gets locked down?
The USA did ‘do it right’ in that elderly people and immunocompromised were told to stay home from the git-go. And were the first, along with claim jumpers and first responders and essential workers, to be vaccinated starting mid-December through Jan/Feb. Where we didn’t do it right was failure to mandate their HCWs/caregivers be equally vaccinated at the exact same time. But vaccinating the elderly obviously helped offset their risk except in the most fragile cases and now the most at risk age group has dropped to younger age brackets.