The threat of Omicron in no way justifies this draconian response, says a British writer living near Shanghai
The threat of Omicron in no way justifies this draconian response. The state’s priority is its image, not people’s livesPhotograph: Aly Song/ReutersPhotograph: Aly Song/Reutershen cases grew in Shanghai, I was hopeful. I thought there would be no way Shanghai would be like Jilin and Changshun, smaller cities that had recently locked down millions of people to contain Covid outbreaks. I assumed that the government would finally have to relax its kneejerk “zero Covid” approach.
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