Dossier
COVID-19 lockdowns
Coverage of COVID-19 lockdowns in the Nexus archive.
- How China’s Population Stopped Noticing Their Country Had Been Sealed
The article discusses how China's population became accustomed to strict lockdowns and control measures, with successive lockdowns conditioning citizens to accept increasingly restrictive government oversight. The piece suggests these lockdowns normalized surveillance and population control to the extent that people stopped actively noticing or questioning the restrictions.