BEIJING - Under China’s now defunct zero-Covid policy, the Chinese have had the best and the worst of times in the pandemic.
For much of 2021, as Covid-19 raged on around the globe, those of us in China were blissfully ensconced in a giant bubble where, even if you tried, you couldn’t catch the virus because it was so elusive.
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