> there's got to have been people with strong feelings that created roadblocks along the way.

Look into 2019 protests

It was big at the time, but ended up being a minor blip, and from what I read, there were no actual deaths caused by the police.

There was one guy who fell down a high rise garage and there was a street cleaner who was killed by the protesters.

Compare that to when the British were taking over Hong Kong, and hundreds of protesters were killed.

I’ve always wondered what would have happened if the pandemic didn’t occur soon after.

What’s crazy is the trigger was a Hong Kong national who killed his girlfriend in Taiwan. Taiwan wanted to extradite him but there was no law in place to do so. Apparently the killer is still free today.