China’s emergence from that period was abrupt, marking a rare recent instance where public frustrations erupted into protests that prompted a government response. Just five months after the end of the Shanghai lockdown, a deadly residential building fire in Xinjiang ignited China’s White Paper protests.
Residents took to the streets protesting with blank A4 sheets of paper, to express their dissatisfaction with the government’s strict COVID measures.
Cookers? The Chinese covid lockdowns were pretty draconian. They were locking people in their apartment buildings.