Chinese officials in the city of Xi’an, in Shaanxi Province in central China, are planning a lockdown if the seasonal flu poses a severe threat. This would, in effect, make a return to the style of lockdown experienced during Covid, and which led to the otherwise passive Chinese people pouring out onto the streets in protest. Presumably the Chinese health authorities must think that people have short memories. And, as cited below, some journalists in the West, the same that supported the Covid lockdowns, are renewing the call for new lockdowns if the flu gets severe, and especially if there is a species jump of bird flu, H5N1.
If so, we will be set to go through Covid 2.0, with a likely new round of inadequately tested mRNA vaxxes. The big question is, whether the people of the West and going to take it this time, or will they again, be forced to take it?