'''Covid lockdown''' orders were decrees prohibiting the operation of businesses and forbidding people from leaving their homes during the 2020-2021 [[CCP global pandemic]]. Many of these lockdowns order were [[totalitarian]] decrees and violations of [[constitutional]]ly protected rights issued by [[Democratic party]] mayors and governors in the [[United States]]. [[Gretchen Whitmer]], [[Andrew Cuomo]], [[Gavin Newsom]], [[Phil Murphy]], [[Bill de Blasio]], and [[Lori Lightfoot]] were among the most notorious [[human rights]] abusers.
==Communist psuedoscience==
Just as [[maintream media]] and the scientific community fell for the sucker-punch of [[Chinese Communist]] misinformation from the start of the [[coronavirus]] [[pandemic]], so too have many fallen for lockdowns, on the Chinese model, to contain the spread.
Lockdowns in [[the West]] have strengthened [[Communist Party of China]]'s control over the global supply chain. Lockdowns have caused [[economy]] of the [[Peoples Republic of China]] economy to continue growing while other economies around the world, mostly free societies but not only free societies to shrink.<ref>https://www.theepochtimes.com/how-lockdowns-benefited-beijing-and-why-its-push-for-the-measure-needs-scrutiny_3933290.html</ref>
==US==