They ended their zero covid strategy when they saw how many people were suddenly testing positive and didn't want to have to deal with taking care of/quarantining that many people at once. They saw the data and the trend about to blow up and decided to just let people deal with it.
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They ended their zero covid strategy when they saw how many people were suddenly testing positive and didn't want to have to deal with taking care of/quarantining that many people at once. They saw the data and the trend about to blow up and decided to just let people deal with it.