Most of China supports extreme measures to suppress tens of millions if it means preventing Covid for a billion.<p>The flaw in their reasoning is that Covid can be prevented forever.<p>The longer China imposed extreme lockdowns, the more that people who support this utilitarian calculus will experience what it’s like to be on the wrong side of the boot.<p>This probably won’t have political consequences due to the extreme party power in existence, but it will make it harder to reverse their collapsing demographics due to mass demoralization.