I keep saying these lockdowns are phony from a health perspective and all about manipulating supply chains.
Yup.
You could be right on this... it's either that or the Chinese know something about the cumulative effect of the virus that we don't know.
Xi Jinping is in a domestic political battle with the only opposition he faces with the CCP - the Shanghai Clique, headed by still-living former President and Party Chairman Jiang Zemin.
there are more Shanghai-appointed members to the politburo than from any other place, so who gains promotion and who doesn’t is probably being fought now.
The average citizen is the grass being trampled by elephants.