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From what I understand, the lockdown concept has a long history in China's public health approach. It's designed to protect the healthy. It's not necessarily misanthropic, although the applications obviously can be dreadful. They do it because contagion is terrifying in a densely populated place, and there's a big constituency for it. Pragmatism only goes so far and no leader, no matter how powerful and popular, can wholly defy deeply held convictions.

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China persists for a number of reasons: the history of malfeasance of empire bioweapons against China for one, then the concern over its population health 2. I know to us it sounds extreme given we get fascism with lockdown, there however, people who mismanaged it and abused it are punished and removed from office, people who instead have used the tool properly limiting people's and working people's stress levels and so on are treasured, as they benefitted a numbers of issues..... not only above listed ones. So there has to be layering in looking at it..... just as we do in the West.

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