Originally Posted by
boat stuck
Agreed. Still, the sudden policy shift is truly astounding. Who knows, maybe it's because Xi was actually patient zero for the Beijing outbreak, after he got it from Trudeau while they were squabbling in Bali!
I've seen numerous instances of policies starting/stopping pretty much immediately. Before this month's moves, the end of our (SH) lockdown at midnight on June 1 is the next most recent that comes to mind. While isolated lockdowns continued after that, most of the municipality-wide rules simply disappeared and public transit went from ~5% to ~99% overnight.