Covid-2019 - 2022-12-31

Happy New Year with the Thoughts of Chairman Xi. In a New Year's speech, the Great One acknowledged that with the draconian "Zero Covid" policy, "It has not been an easy journey for anyone." But the punishing lockdowns were "science-based," so it's worth it. Oh -- and those protests -- well, "Ours is a big country. It is only natural for different people to have different concerns or hold different views on the same issue." It's science! It's natural! As the state-controlled Global Times put it, this whole Covid thing has just been "a short period of imperfection." It's all in "Recommended Reading" today.