ok, i may not read this in a timely manner but i skimmed it and it's stuff i already knew because i already follow the east asia news cycle and have been thinking about the impact zero covid has on my family since january 2020. i guess hearing it from a white man drives things home for certain groups of people?? not to be bitter, but i am bitter
Add Oil! – The Tragedy of Zero-Covid | a writeup of how China's Zero-Covid panned out, from someone who was actually there
oolong wrote
before i read this, gonna say that my grandpa died feb 2020 and no one could enter china for the funeral that we couldn't even hold anyway