The Absurdity Of Lockdowners Who Support China's Anti-Lockdown Protests

 Across the political spectrum, voices have risen up in support of protests of unprecedented scale against the Chinese Communist Party’s indefinite Covid lockdown measures

• Anyone who participates in a protest in China runs a risk of being subject to cruel and arbitrary punishment. For ordinary Chinese people to brave that risk in defiance of this new form of inhuman medical tyranny is an act of courage worthy of admiration.
• Even by Chinese standards, the lockdowns that Xi Jinping pioneered with the onset of Covid are horrific in terms of their scale, their duration, their depravity, and the new totalitarian surveillance measures to which they’ve led.
• What may be even more galling than this apologism is the widespread support China's anti-lockdown protesters have received even among those who demonized anti-lockdown protesters in their home countries and wished their lockdowns were more like China's. In 2020, CNN published an open letter from "Over 1,000 health professionals" denouncing anti-lockdown protests as "Rooted in white nationalism" while admiring "China's Covid success compared to Europe." Such as Italy, imposed lockdowns shortly before the United States, their officials too had simply taken the policy from China. Though by "Full lockdown" Zeynep may have intended somewhere in between the strictness of lockdowns in the United States and China, there was no way for any reader to know what that medium was; it existed only in her own head. Thus, the reader is left only with a call for a "Full lockdown," and the only example of a "Successful" "Full lockdown" that then existed was a full Chinese lockdown. It thus gave the CCP and its apologists an infinite excuse for why lockdowns "Worked" in China and nowhere else-because only China had ever had a "Real lockdown" in which residents were welded into their homes. This idea that lockdowns had worked in China because the CCP had gone so far as to weld people into their homes was invoked over and over again during Covid, creating a limitless "No-True-Scotsman" out for lockdown apologists as to why lockdowns weren't "Working" anywhere except China.

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