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The other extreme, how China is handling the Olympics:

https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/coronavirus/beijing-seals-off-more-residential-areas-reports-12-covid-19-cases-1.5760409

Beijing officials said Sunday they had sealed off several residential communities north of the city centre after two cases of COVID-19 were found.
The Chinese capital is on high-alert as it prepares to host the Winter Olympic Games opening Friday.

Another 34 cases were confirmed among athletes and others who have come for the Games, the organizing committee said. In all 211 people have tested positive among more than 8,000 who had arrived by the end of Saturday. They include a Swedish cross-country skier and a snowboarder from Slovenia.

While the number of cases is low compared to other countries in the region, China has doubled down on its "zero-tolerance" policy, which tries to break the chain of transmission as soon as it is found.

The Chinese capital reported a total of 12 cases of COVID-19 between 4 p.m. Saturday and 4 p.m. Sunday, said Pang Xinghuo, the vice head of the Beijing Center for Disease Prevention and Control. All those cases came from people who were already under some kind of pandemic control measures.


Athletes are kept separate from the public and from each other when tested positive:

The participants in the Games stay in hotels that have been surrounded by temporary walls. They can come and go only in special vehicles that take them directly to the venues or other Olympics facilities. The public is not allowed to enter the hotel properties or the venues, though a limited number of spectators will be let in for the events.

Anyone who tests positive inside the Olympics bubble is isolated in a hospital or quarantine hotel to try to prevent the virus from spreading to other participants.


Draconian measures, however the fallout from the Summer Olympics in Japan was about 900K infections and 3,000 extra deaths in Japan.