January 4, 2023
The interesting chronology of the Days of Bridge Man and the White Paper Movement
Covid is rampant in China right now. It is interesting, noteworthy even, to understand how they got there. In early fall, Bridge Man stages his protest in Shanghai. In one manner of speaking, he reacted to the national Covid restrictions by calling for more democracy. Soon, many people were copying his response, leading to the White Paper Movement. The government has since retaliated by ending all Covid restrictions, allegedly according to the peoples' will (but no mention of democracy.) So now people are getting Covid again. But what is a happy spin on this story, is that even with the total abdication of zero-Covid measures, the early consensus is that a vaccinated population isn't getting awfully ill. This is both good and brings the strictness of the past zero-Covid measures into doubt. It's an irony that comes around full circle.
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