If the government listen the protesters and remove the lockdown policy is bad, if they don't listen to the protesters and maintain the lockdown is bad. Is impossible to win.

In the end of the day the lockdown was the right call and the "freedom above everything else" just cause death in the west.

[–] stickly@lemmy.world -5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Weird way to "listen" by suppressing their voices. Zero Covid was the "right call" in a narrow lens of limiting direct disease transmission, but it was completely untenable as a true long term strategy and had no foresight.

The protests weren't due to solely to the restrictions on personal freedom, it was also the total lack of sane administration and fallback plans. The enforcement, quarantine logistics and vaccine rollout were entirely scattershot. The government had no realistic approach to the problem beyond rigid policing.

When their authority to enforce the policy was stretched to its limits they did an about face and pretended the problem didn't exist, leaving their vulnerable populations in the lurch with no offramp. The core problem of inept administration was completely unaddressed. I wouldn't give them credit for "listening to the protesters" any more than I would give Tsar Nicholas credit for listening to his striking workers.