a visit with an ex

Strange night.  It started just before midnight, with noises outside that I couldn't tell if they were gunfire or just fireworks.  It ended after 6am with the cat deciding to walk across my belly.

Somewhere in between, I had a dream that featured my last ex-boyfriend.  I haven't communicated with him in 24 years.  The dream was set at another large facility/hotel with lots of people.  He was teasing me, and I couldn't tell if he was trying to rekindle romance.  I was trying to avoid entanglements.  The dream was otherwise disjointed with no real thread of a plot.  I don't even know more about the setting.

A poor quality dream, with so few details available.  But I still remember it nearly an hour after waking, so into the journal it goes.  This is a record-setting year for dreams.

Q: why is the west not implementing any preventive measures?

I can't even come up with a good conspiracy theory for why the western world seems intent on infecting everyone with SARS-CoV-2.  What reason for it do you think is plausible?

Any theory needs to simultaneously satisfy (or at least not contradict) 2 critieria:

1. Why has the western world abandoned any effort to prevent people from getting infected with SARS-CoV-2?
2. Why is China still insistent on its "Zero COVID" policy?

I have 3 plausible (just not "good") reasons.  I'll add them after a week, so I don't influence the suggestions offered.

( Read my bad ideas... )