There is no good or bad protests of lockdowns. Things don’t happen in a vacuum. There is context to everything which you are conveniently ignoring. Most western democracy used lockdowns early on in the pandemic to stop Covid cases crippling the heath systems. Depending on the country that had varying success, but there was always an end game to lockdown and restrictions and masks etc. That being to get a higher enough percentage of the population vaccinated to open back up and move beyond having to lockdown, even with high case numbers circulating in the community. There is real world data and facts on this almost everywhere you care to look. China, conversely has no end game. Their policy of trying to eliminate an endemic virus that has already circulated the global several times now is why the Chinese people are protesting. They see the western world going about there business as normal and wonder why there are still suffering lockdowns 3 whole years after this began. That is the real difference.