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It's stay explained, I'm Sean Ramos-Firm, and we have not talked about COVID-19 on the show in a minute.

I mean, we've talked about how the pandemic's affected supply of consumer goods.

We've talked about how parents are really mad about pandemic policies and schools,

but it's been several weeks since we've made an honest to goodness episode about COVID.

And I think that's a pretty good reflection of where we're at in America right now.

We've reached a point where we're just living with this thing for better or worse.

Cases go up, cases go down. Some people are vaccinated, others aren't.

That guy's got a mask on. This guy doesn't seem to care very much about the mandate here at this Safeway supermarket life goes on.

Contrast that approach with China's.

China's pursuing a policy known as zero COVID.

It means keeping COVID as close to zero cases as possible from day to day.

Emily Fang is NPR's China correspondent based in Beijing.

She says China usually has less than 100 new cases of COVID per day.

And that's mind-boggling because China has 1.3 billion people.

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