Pandemic Lessons Learned: Deer Are Not Military Horses

A policeman wearing protective clothing reacts in an area where barriers are being placed to close off streets around a locked down neighborhood in Shanghai on March 15, 2022. Hector Retamal/AFP via Getty Images

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Earlier this month, The Lancet published an article titled “Shanghai’s life-saving efforts against the current omicron wave of the COVID-19 pandemic” by three renowned scientists at Shanghai’s top universities: Wenhong Zhang, Xinxin Zhang, and Saijuan Chen. The article praised the Chinese Communist Party’s draconian lockdown policy in Shanghai as “life-saving.”