NO ENEMIES TO THE LEFT: Chinese Rise Up Against Lockdowns that Elites Advocated in the US.

It’s an open question why the CCP remains so obsessively dedicated to this policy of Zero Covid; theories range from bureaucratic inertia to “saving face,” to a test of loyalty for Party members, to keeping ‘the science’ alive, to simply putting on a show to reassure international onlookers that the CCP really does believe in what it sold them and at least they don’t have it as bad as in China. It remains to be seen whether these protests will result in any real change in the country’s direction. But in the meantime, it’s worth remembering who it was exactly who advocated these insane Zero Covid lockdown policies and urged us to emulate them: Our own media elites and health officials.

Just think of the media as Democratic Party operatives with bylines, and their love for the CCP’s lockdowns (as reflected in the many screencaps at the above link) makes perfect sense.