The lockdowns in communist China, tried multiple times, did not work, so why did they persist? One view has it, and I think that it has merit, that the lockdowns were never about public health, but social control. China’s lockdowns were an experiment in Xi’s power, as he ascended to god emperor status. But things in the West were not much different as the same experiment as conducted to see how much social control could be pushed upon a public, subjected to a fear campaign, and the iron fist of social domination and oppression. And the oppressive state now knows that most people will be easily bent. It reaches into deep philosophical questions about free will and agency, that most people took an experimental vaccine, purely upon trust of the government, who, what, never lie to us?
https://off-guardian.org/2022/12/01/the-real-reason-behind-chinas-zero-covid-policy/