You don’t lockdown 54 million over “200” deaths and a case of the sniffles.
Yeah. But they’re getting a lot of practice in a mass control drill on their population.
You do if your a Tienniman Square brutal Communist dictatorship with absolute power and control, trying to "save face" in a world where your trying to impress upon the rest of the world that you are a first rate nation superpower, with first rate science and medical care and you have things completley under control (and therefore refuse U.S. help, among others, multiple times).
Yes, that's exactly what you do...cause you can.