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When I think about China's zero COVID policy, the rules that kept millions of people in lockdown,

sometimes for months at a time, I think about emptied out streets in Shanghai.

I think of the PCR tests government officials required of every resident week after week.

But Dave Kang from the Associated Press, he thinks about something else.

I mean, just to give you an idea of how crazy things were getting before zero COVID ended,

I had quite a few friends and acquaintances who were having farewell parties and going to Thailand

because they were just like, this is too much I'm out.

For Dake, zero COVID was surprisingly effective until it wasn't.

And then it became this opportunity for everyday people in China to rebel,

coming up with workarounds to avoid the apps that the government used to track them.

You know, at a certain point by the end, I think people were just straight up resorting to using

fake health codes or recording the sound of, you know, the health code scan so that they could get

into places without actually having to scan the codes because so many people were fed up with this policy.

Wow. I didn't even thought about that, but that's like an ingenious thing to record the little

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