Commentary What’s really behind Beijing’s “zero-tolerance” COVID-19 policy? Isn’t the pandemic all but over, with the vast majority of variants becoming less lethal and a large percentage of populations either vaccinated or with natural immunity? If all that’s true—and it is—what’s going on? Follow the Science: Lockdowns Don’t Work China’s lockdowns aren’t about saving lives. Following the so-called “science” behind locking down a city of 9 million people or a whole region of 50 million people after only a relatively small number of non-lethal Omicron cases is absurd. It was unwise and ineffective two years ago, and it remains so today. In fact, according to the latest science, lockdowns aren’t a measure to contain a virus. A recent study by Johns Hopkins University shows that “lockdown policies are ill-founded and should be rejected as a pandemic policy instrument.” The Death Deception of the CCP But wait, China’s mortality statistics from the …