The numbers provided for "asymptomatic" cases are meaningless, since cases are only considered "symptomatic" if they are exhibiting the severe symptoms associated with the Alpha and Delta versions. By the time most people get back a definitive positive PCR test report, most have already gotten over the sore throat and fever phase and are left with mere coughing. Some only get the coughing and nothing else. Regardless, these are objectively speaking also symptoms, but they don't get counted that way.

Today's article mentions this: https://austrianchina.substack.com/p/beijing-lockdown-rumor

The Shanghai government was completed sidelined, and the health department top officials replaced by people brought in by Vice-Premier Sun Chunlan. She even attempted to replace Shanghai's health code management software with her own, but that attempt was just abandoned. This article tells the story:

https://austrianchina.substack.com/p/when-the-commissar-came...

That's not really relevant to who takes the blame, is it?

The Shanghai government will take the blame as they failed to implement the lockdown early and hard policies the rest of China was following.

Yes, this is the source.

I think it's better to treat that post as part of the protest (someone supporting the message of the video imagining how it spreads far and wide) than as a reliable source on things like traffic figures (which, realistically, even the authorities can't know because of all the different copies floating around).

Thanks for catching this typo. It should read 12:30 am.

Economic freedom and respect for property rights have made China wealthy. Today this wealth is under threat, but resistance to the totalitarians is fierce. Millions of Shanghainese have discovered that they have something to defend.