Year after lockdown, Wuhan dissident more isolated than ever One year after Wuhan’s lockdown, the central Chinese city has long since sprung back to lifeWUHAN, China -- One year after lockdown, Wuhan has long since sprung back to life — but Zhu Tao remains bunkered in his 14th-floor apartment, spending his days doomscrolling through news, playing virtual soccer on his PlayStation and feeling China is teetering on the brink of collapse. Haunting Zhu is the fear that the virus might return — that once again, the government will conceal the truth, and once again, Wuhan will fall under lockdown. Now, the rich kids of Wuhan down pricey bottles of whiskey and bop to crashing electronica at the city’s swank nightclubs. But when a mysterious respiratory illness began spreading through Wuhan early last year, Zhu's deep-seated skepticism toward the government suddenly proved prescient. Ahead of the lockdown anniversary this year, police spirited at least one dissenter out of Wuhan.

Source: ABC News January 24, 2021 05:03 UTC