A year ago, China lifted draconian COVID restrictions that were an anvil around the neck of the economy and placed unprecedented controls on a society that, for the previous four decades, had grown accustomed to expanding personal freedoms, not shrinking them

Definitely not true for folks who use digital privacy tools

I mean, their vaccine is just saltwater and spit just like the Russian one. And they didn’t let anyone catch it at all (or at least they tried) wich means there isn’t a natural resistance either.

So in the end they completely fucked their economy (and the economy of other countries with it… But thats a different story) and just postponed the unavoidable outbreak of covid making it essentially worse than any other country. Oh and thanks to the new outbreaks covid has definitely mutated a lot…

"When I was coming in '82, people took pictures with cars and paid for the picture

What the hell does that mean?