– “So what wave you are in, is mostly determined by how many lock downs you have imposed.”
Or rather, the number of times it has been permitted to get out of control. China’s had only one real wave; all others have been prevented with instant but brief and lockdowns, until trace-and-test got back on top:
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/china/#graph-cases-daily
– ‘The more you test
– the more you find
– or the less you test the less you find.”
That wouldn’t apply at all in New Zealand – no matter how many tests, you’d always find zero positives.
It would barely apply in China and most of Australia – you could test all 1.4 billion Chinese and you might find barely a handfull of positives.