News Analysis Beijing’s zero-covid tolerance policy is making life unlivable for many in China. More than a year-and-a-half since the beginning of the pandemic, Chinese citizens are still suffering from ongoing quarantines, of up to thousands of people at a time, and pervasive PCR testing as often as daily in some schools. Since Oct. 23, approximately one-third of China’s 31 province-level regions, including Beijing, have remained under some sort of restrictions, including prohibition of travel from other provinces, school lockdowns (where students remained inside for testing), restaurant and entertainment closures, or periodic bans on going outside. Ruili city, a jewelry trading center in China’s Yunnan Province, on the Burma (Myanmar) border, has undergone four lockdowns since September 2020, with some of the lockdowns lasting as long as 26 days. On social media, parents are posting about how they and their children are suffering under the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) quest …
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