Shanghai Covid Lockdown Protests Could Spark Democracy Movement | National Review
The new wave of infections from the Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2 has been far less deadly than the original outbreak in Wuhan. Chinese authorities reported no Covid deaths, and only nine people who tested positive were reportedly in serious condition. The overwhelming majority of infections between March 1 and April 12 were asymptomatic. Epidemiologists and other pandemic experts including Dr. Wenhong Zhang, who leads Shanghai s Covid task force have pleaded with central authorities not to impose a lockdown or other draconian measures but to accept the reality of coexistence between humans and the virus. China s central government, insisting that the number of Covid be zero, has plunged Shanghai into a man-made disaster.