China’s continuing lockdowns have been more about asserting Xi as a god emperor, rather than sound epidemiology. The lockdowns have been the most severe in human history, with people being literally imprisoned in factories, the doors welded, often with no food. There is no real idea how many people have died from the lockdowns alone. But at present, Covid cases are surging, as detailed below, so Xi’s measures have been an utter failure. Probaly these measures have put evolutionary pressure upon the virus, resulting in stronger versions, that are now surge across China. The problem will be possible shortages of products in the West, given the insanity of globalism, of putting all the industrial eggs in the one basket.