"Days later, the government began to unravel its zero-Covid policy, which fully ended on January 8. The archives of the pandemic also ground to a halt; a vast apparatus that had in 2020 been created to record every individual case was suddenly disassembled. The change was so sudden, someone told me, that “it made us feel like we were living in a dream”. The problem with dreams is they tend to make even less sense when you write them down."

https://www.ft.com/content/930318b8-65f3-4c66-9dd6-44249adea584