Last week Shanghai Disney was locked down, so was a FoxConn plant producing Apple iPhone 14s, and on and on. Viruses aren’t ideological. They just spread.
Tragic as the lockdown responses have been, there’s arguably a silver lining. The Chinese people are seeing up close just how hapless its government is in the face of a pathogen. Really, stop and contemplate the obnoxious conceit of Xi Jinping et al for assuming that they, presumably for being the all-powerful CCP, could achieve “Zero-COVID.” Paraphrasing Jeffrey Tucker, did the Chinese leadership really think that mass takings of freedom would stop nature in its tracks?
The State is an abject fool,
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