Commentary Beijing’s COVID-19 strategy–known as “COVID Zero”—is getting increasingly draconian and arbitrary as the SARS-CoV-2 virus mutates to become exponentially more transmissible. The measures include mass testing, surveillance, quarantines, driving, flight, and border controls, disinfectant trucks, and aggressive contact tracing. Reports of starving residents in lockdown are coming from Xi’an city, while “buffer zones” with increased restrictions are announced around the country in border regions. On Dec. 28, the regime restricted entry into Beijing for anyone who had visited a border county over the past two weeks, including from counties with no cases. In Jingxi on the border with Vietnam, four COVID “rule breakers,” who allegedly transported illegal migrants, were reportedly marched through the city on Dec. 28 holding their own photos in a “walk of shame.” In a video, the four wear white hazmat suits and are flanked by two police officers each. Following and surrounding the suspects are …