Chinese people getting tired of dictates

 AP:

Crowd angered by lockdowns calls for China’s Xi to step down

Protesters angered by strict anti-virus measures called for China’s powerful leader to resign, an unprecedented rebuke as authorities in at least eight cities struggled to suppress demonstrations Sunday that represent a rare direct challenge to the ruling Communist Party.

Police using pepper spray drove away demonstrators in Shanghai who called for Xi Jinping to step down and an end to one-party rule, but hours later people rallied again in the same spot. Police again broke up the demonstration, and a reporter saw protesters under arrest being driven away in a bus.

The protests — which began Friday and have spread to cities including the capital, Beijing, and dozens of university campuses — are the most widespread show of opposition to the ruling party in decades.
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The original lockdowns were a mistake and it appears the Chicom leaders are determined to make the same mistake again with it comes to Covid.  The people must be pretty angry to challenge a dictator like Xi knowing they risk incarceration.  Now the Chicoms are trying to censor the stories about the pushback.

See, also:

China’s zero-Covid anger is erupting

The CCP censors are playing catch-up, erasing evidence of the worst incidents

 Protests appear to be breaking out in several major Chinese cities in what has been a week of horrors for China’s zero-Covid policy. Rare displays of public anger have risen to levels not seen since the Shanghai lockdown, and perhaps even since the death of the whistleblower doctor Li Wenliang three years ago. Chinese social media lit up the night he died, and a similar level of frustration and pain is being shared online right now.

The latest tragedy is the death of ten people after a fire broke out in their locked-down high rise in...

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And:

Protest erupt across China.

A bad policy has fatal consequences.