The ordeals of forced quarantines with little medical support and mass COVID-19 testing were beginning to fade into nightmarish memories for the people of China. But their well-deserved freedom, newly emerging after a three-year-long lockdown, was fleeting as people were swiftly dragged into a new, more terrifying reality.
On Dec. 8, 2022, the CCP made a complete U-turn on its pandemic-restrictive policies, plummeting Chinese society into a state of shock. This dramatic shift in policy did not happen gradually as it did in other countries. If the coronavirus could speak, it might say that it too was shocked that it was allowed to resume its wild celebration party all over China.
