Hypocrisy has deep roots.
The Chinese people are allowing their elderly to die hungry and alone. They are allowing themselves to be prisoners in their own homes with zero justification. They are allowing the authorities to seize their pets, break them with iron bars until they can only whimper, and sack them up still alive to await pickup like garbage.
No doubt they are relieved that it isn't them and their children going into the sacks with broken spines, this time. But when it goes there eventually, they will cower and hope to be passed by and live another day.
They deserve no respect.
No argument.