Looks like what CPC fears is not the number of deaths, but the fact that people will realize (and be outraged) that it was all much ado about nothing. When they find that 99% of the people survive and the only people who die were already on their way out anyway and would have died from a regular cold.
lets use your own numbers. 99% that is a lot of survivals, only 1% that looks like nothing in a virus that spread like measles, so is possible that will infect like 50-70% of the population in months.
1400 billion * 60% = 840 million infected
840 * 1% = 8.4 million deaths in a few months. In you own words you say you don't care if 8 million people die unnecessary because "they are gonna die anyway", a grandfather, a grandmother, a father, husband, a mother, a wife, a scientist, a son, a daughter, a kid or even babies.
Even that your numbers are wrong, the death rate is even lower 0.3% to 0.1%, even that lets see how many deaths.
840* 0.2%-0.05% = 1.68 millions in the high and 0.42 millions at minimum in just a few months, that will be overwhelming for the Chinese healthcare system. You know who they are gonna to held responsible for those deaths, specially the f*cking Western corporate media, we all know who: Xi and the Chinese Government. And you know it.
If you cast a vote in China about "living with COVID" and "Zero COVID most people will vote for "Living with COVID" but when Hospital stop taking patients because they are overwhelm, start doing triage, crematoriums start to filling with bodies and panics set in because the f*cking news, they will blame the Chinese government for allow them to vote in a such critical issue. The Chinese government is held at more higher standard by the public than most Western governments.
If the Chinese decide to abandon their zero strategy, they will have to censor the crap of the outbreak, crack down heavily on whistleblowers and create a sense of normalcy in the economy by even allowing companies to force their employees to work sick. They decide.