{"id":51207,"date":"2022-12-17T10:00:06","date_gmt":"2022-12-17T01:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/dec\/17\/what-was-it-for-the-mental-toll-of-chinas-three-years-in-covid-lockdowns"},"modified":"2022-12-17T10:00:06","modified_gmt":"2022-12-17T01:00:06","slug":"what-was-it-for-the-mental-toll-of-chinas-three-years-in-covid-lockdowns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=51207","title":{"rendered":"\u2018What was it for?\u2019: the mental toll of China\u2019s three years in Covid lockdowns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the government abandons \u2018zero Covid\u2019, it may take decades for ordinary Chinese people to recover \u2013 and many aren\u2019t sure it was worth it<\/p>\n<p>After China\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/dec\/12\/china-scraps-tracking-app-amid-widespread-dismantling-of-zero-covid-policy\">abrupt scaling back of its zero-Covid restrictions<\/a>, many ordinary Chinese people are struggling to cope with the mental trauma from three years of frequent lockdowns and are demanding answers for the heavy price they have paid.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, one of the top shared posts on Sina Weibo \u2013 China\u2019s Twitter-like platform \u2013 was an article citing medical experts as saying depression, anxiety and post-traumatic stress disorder suffered by the population would probably take between 10 and 20 years to recover from.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/dec\/17\/what-was-it-for-the-mental-toll-of-chinas-three-years-in-covid-lockdowns\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the government abandons \u2018zero Covid\u2019, it may take decades for ordinary Chinese people to recover \u2013 and many aren\u2019t sure it was worth itAfter China\u2019s abrupt scaling back of its zero-Covid restrictions, many ordinary Chinese people are struggling to c&#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":[41,50,1066,744,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-coronavirus","category-mental-health","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51207","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=51207"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51208,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51207\/revisions\/51208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}