Chinese Protest the Same Lockdowns That Elites Advocated Here

Here's CDC Director Rochelle Walensky on the incredible results China was able to "Achieve" with their "Really strict lockdowns." Here's former CDC Director Tom Frieden on how China used lockdowns to "Crush the curve." Of course it's no accident that Matt Pottinger and Deborah Birx, arguably the two most important officials behind lockdowns in the United States, got their idea of virus containment from China as well. In 2020 and 2021, these calls for western nations to emulate China's lockdowns reached a fever pitch. Even some Covid "Moderates" like professor Balloux Francois continue to toe the line that China's lockdowns were effective. As protests continue to erupt across China and Zero Covid is lain bare as the moral and intellectual catastrophe that is always was, it's worth remembering that if we'd taken these officials and media elites seriously, the entire free world would look very much like China does today. It's possible that when we get to the bottom of this story, we'll find that these elites had perfectly good reasons for treating China's data as real and treating Xi Jinping's lockdowns as a legitimate public health policy, and a perfectly good explanation for why they couldn't share those reasons with the public.