It's because it worked before. BUT, the problem now is almost no Chinese people have any antibodies to any of the variants including Omicron. Then on top of that Sinovac (their vaccines) don't work against Omicron at all.
So, in some ways they really have no choice even though it isn't going to work this time. So, what we are seeing potentially is a real disaster for China the way all this is going because "NO NATION likely can defeat Omicron because of how infectious it is. And because of this China likely will lose many people to Omicron and it might even destabilize the government because their 1.4 Billion people are completely vulnerable at this point to Omicron because they have absolutely NO antibodies to Omicron.
In other words what China has is the Opposite of herd immunity to Omicron whereas because the rest of the world has been hit so hard and has better vaccines the rest of the world is moving faster towards herd immunity while China has none. This is why it is so very very dangerous for China now.
So, what worked before for them likely is completely counterproductive at this time because the nature of Omicron is completely different than previous variants.
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