I'm not ignoring anything.

>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.

Sounds like the type of thing that would have easily been dismissed as anti-lockdown, science denying, conspiracy theorist thinking a couple of years ago.

;)

Ohh, you think those two perspectives are equal.

Oh, you didn't read my post properly. Try again!

>Again what was "rational" in terms of limiting our freedoms was up for debate

Was it? Does that include the media's widespread claim that anything anti-lockdown was conspiracy theorist or science denying thinking (example)? Does that include the fact that many people were banned from subreddits they'd never even visited simply because they participated in a forum for lockdown skeptics (example)? Does that include the large numbers of videos that were removed from YouTube, flagged as misinformation (example), for trying to question the long term impact of lockdowns?

I'd argue no, it very much was not up for debate.

>Whether that's "rational" is up for debate.

Well, that's great! We should have that debate. In China, it sounds like they're not entertaining that debate. The debate wasn't entertained two years ago in much of the western world, instead any opposition was dismissed as conspiracy theorist, science denying misinformation.

>and that something had to be done.

Ahh... no. A rational person did not have to think something had to be done.

The difference this time is it's good to protest lockdowns, despite the high 'numbers'.