China and Covid: How A Dictatorship Turns Crises Into Catastrophe

Barry Gander
12 min readDec 16, 2022

Nearly three years after the Covid virus first emerged in Wuhan, China is still whistling in the dark as it passes its graveyards. It is in denial, distracting itself with the management of unhelpful controls to quash Covid outbreaks. Meanwhile countries such as the U.S. have warily returned to normal life.

Barry Gander

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