police having their phones searched for images of the protests. these are just kind of the first indicators of some of the levers that the government has that it has used in the past schedule much dissent and appears to be using it in several cities thus far. while cracking down as the chinese government has done through generations, we're also hearing some signs from health officials, at least tacit acknowledgement, that there need to be some changes. this is an immense pressure on the population, locking down cities for months at a time, locking people in their homes. there were senior health officials who came out who talked about trying to lift lockdowns a little bit sooner, trying to launch an action plan to vaccinate the senior citizens, people over 80, that china has very low levels of vaccinations, and also, kind of