This week marks the turning point of China’s Zero-Covid policy.Overnight, the lockdown was lifted in major cities of China, to put it accurately, it happened on Wednesday. Yeah, no bluffing, it came overnight.The propaganda also made a U-turn this week. It began to downplay the severity of the virus (or you can say they finally admit it) which it has portrayed as a monster for three years. Propaganda is shameless. I hope you take this lesson from China’s experience. So we Chinese are kinda celebrating the end of this fucking lockdown in our WeChat group. You know when the happiness comes so fast, you become suspicious and doubt if it’s true. Do I deserve it? How could the happiness come so fast?That’s the mentality of most of the Chinese right now. Let’s call it collective “imposter syndrome”. At the same time, we’re not dumb, and we know we need to prepare to bear the brunt. Finally, we’re going to deal with this Covid individually. Many are hoarding medicines for fever or sore throat. It’s understandable and reasonable right? Just imagine, what else would you do? If you were Chinese and lived in China, you would do just like us, as a reasonable being. But personally, I admit that what happened in last two years also looks absurd and tragic to me. Moreover, I have to say I can’t explain to you why things happened like that even as a Chinese. Because information is deadly locked and you know China we don’t have such things as journalist here, and relying entirely on my experience and knowledge, I can only tell you that: I can’t explain and I feel sorry. Perhaps nobody could. I didn’t say last three years, because at the first year, in 2020 when you guys were in mess, China was in order and the lockdown hadn’t dropped on my head, I admit that I did feel a bit released. I hope you understand, that’s human nature. You know happiness is relative and it comes from comparison. Also by the way I have to tell you, a lot of people here do buy the theory that it’s the American army that spread the virus. Sorry. Again, propaganda is shameless.However, I know some people outside of China are amazed by this marshaling power, the power of locking over 20million people overnight in Shanghai, and kinda begin to do the research about it. They sort of become experts on China. For example, I came across this kind of guy five years ago. He’s from Netherland, and he wrote a paper on ChongQing mode. Basically he analyzed the political campaign in Chongqing, a key capital in southwest of China, led at the moment by Bo Xilai, who’s the competitor of the current president. And he kept asking my comments on his paper. I declined it several times. But in the end I send him a short note within my sincere opinions but full of F-words.How to say. The conclusion is : What he did really hurts my feeling as a Chinese. You need a bit of imagination to understand this. It's like. I was in jail, he didn’t save me out, instead he began to do the research on how solid the jail’s made. What do you expect from a prisoner? A five-star good comment? Personally speaking, I think this type of researchers are either naive or evil. In plain words, they’re either dumbass or badass. No matter which, I don’t like them.

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