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Decoding China's Zero COVID Protests ft. James Palmer
The New Liberal Podcast
Did It Get Worse in 2022?
I remember seeing lots and lots of pictures of like people in full hazmat suits outside, like spraying down public streets. It was performative to a large extent, though at the start of the pandemic it made sense because we really didn't know how spread worked. But by the time that we had a pretty good idea of it, you know, these measures were really about kind of putting on the display. Most Chinese people live in big kind of gated communities where there's walls around the apartment buildings. And there's several gates in the walls. More importantly though was really the urban landscape. When you were locked down,you were locked down on a scale that's inconceivable in
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