This isn't just hindsight. As Shanghai's case numbers steadily rose and the government did nothing, I was telling friends that the result would be a disaster.

This isn't just hindsight. As Shanghai's case numbers steadily rose and the government did nothing, I was telling friends that the result would be a disaster. What really worried me was when Shanghai announced that they were so economically important that they couldn't lock down. That convinced me that they had given up on zero-CoVID and were adopting the Western "living with the virus" approach, without fully admitting it to the public.