‘It was all for nothing’: Chinese count cost of Xi’s snap decision to let Covid rip. “白跑一趟”: 中国人计算习近平突然决定让新冠病毒撕裂的成本在封锁了三年之后,该国对其突如其来的”自由”没有做好充分的准备。 现在,随着一些人估计有100万人死亡,公众的愤怒正在增加

After three years of lockdowns, the country was ill prepared for its abrupt ‘freedom’. Now, with some estimating 1m deaths, public anger is growing https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jan/29/chinese-cost-covid-xi-lockdowns-china Xi’s extraordinary backflip left analysts…