‘What was it for?’: the mental toll of China’s three years in Covid lockdowns

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As the government abandons ‘zero Covid’, it may take decades for ordinary Chinese people to recover – and many aren’t sure it was worth it

A worker in PPE guarding the entrance to a neighbourhood in lockdown in Jing’an district, Shanghai, on 29 March 2022.A worker in PPE guarding the entrance to a neighbourhood in lockdown in Jing’an district, Shanghai, on 29 March 2022.Last modified on Sat 17 Dec 2022 01.02 GMT, many ordinary Chinese people are struggling to cope with the mental trauma from three years of frequent lockdowns and are demanding answers for the heavy price they have paid.

Xiao Han, a liberal legal academic, tweeted: “For this, we supported all those crazy lockdowns, halting of production and business [that resulted in] bankruptcies, suicides and fires?… [They] ignore the humanitarian disasters, for this so-called sacrifice for the greater good. Can the victims now ask: ‘What for?’”

In Beijing, people held white sheets of paper in protest over Covid restrictions, after a vigil for the victims of a fire in Urumqi.Known tragedies connected to “zero Covid” range from the deaths of infants and young children denied medical treatment due to Covid curbs, to a bus accident when 27 people were killed on their way to a quarantine facility in the south-western province of Guizhou.

 

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So lockdowns in china are bad but lockdowns in Australia are good and welcome 🤦🏼🤣🤣.

Nothing - it was for nothing - it didn’t stop the virus BUT wasted businesses - jobs - lives - children’s educations 🥵😡🤬

Notice how the media doesn't question Australia's tyrannical lockdowns

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