China Turns Covid Victory Into Defeat

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The Wall Street Journal
By Holman W Jenkins

What exactly is the function of Chinas zero-Covid lockdowns, which individually and cumulatively now are far bigger than even the Wuhan lockdown in early 2020, when the disease was poorly understood, treatments hadnt been identified, and vaccines were still months away?

The current lockdown in Shanghai and a recently relaxed one in Shenzhen forced 43 million people to remain in their homes and rely on government food deliveries. These were the biggest shutdowns the country has yet tried, aimed at two vital entrepts of the global economy.

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