CNN on fear of the coronavirus in China

Since containing the initial outbreak in Wuhan, the Chinese government has held up its effective containment efforts as proof of the supposed superiority of the country's authoritarian political system.  The success of zero-Covid is thus hailed as an ideological and moral victory over the faltering response of the US and other Western democracies.  And there is plenty of public support for the hardline approach, too.  In China, public tolerance toward infections is extremely low, and fear of the virus still runs high -- partly caused by scarring memories of the devastation in Wuhan, but also fed by unrelenting state media coverage on the horror of rampaging infections abroad. 

~ Nectar Gan, "Xi's China is closing to the world. And it isn't just about borders," CNN, November 15, 2021