{"id":50601,"date":"2022-11-27T19:19:59","date_gmt":"2022-11-27T10:19:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/27\/anger-mounts-as-chinas-zero-covid-policy-fails-to-curb-record-rise-in-cases"},"modified":"2022-11-27T19:19:59","modified_gmt":"2022-11-27T10:19:59","slug":"depressed-powerless-angry-why-frustration-at-chinas-zero-covid-is-spilling-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=50601","title":{"rendered":"Depressed, powerless, angry: why frustration at China\u2019s zero-Covid is spilling over"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Public protests are the most visible signs of anger and scepticism over latest series of draconian lockdowns<\/p>\n<p>Victoria Li* has experienced several lockdowns since <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jan\/17\/corona-second-death-in-china-after-sars-like-outbreak\" title=\"\">Covid emerged in China almost three years ago<\/a>. Being a prisoner in her own home in Beijing made her feel depressed, powerless and angry.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBeing stuck at home with my door sealed, I felt unmotivated to do anything,\u201d she said. \u201cI didn\u2019t want to work, I didn\u2019t want to study. Sometimes, I crept into my bed and cried,\u201d said the lawyer, who is in her 20s.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/27\/anger-mounts-as-chinas-zero-covid-policy-fails-to-curb-record-rise-in-cases\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Public protests are the most visible signs of anger and scepticism over latest series of draconian lockdownsVictoria Li* has experienced several lockdowns since Covid emerged in China almost three years ago. Being a prisoner in her own home in Beijing &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":411,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,1066,914,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-coronavirus","category-infectious-diseases","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/411"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50601"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50602,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50601\/revisions\/50602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}