I would never imagine.
NYT really can't say very much about why China's lockdown is bad except economy reason. Instead they say lockdown is out of date, treating lockdown like a fashionable thing. For the left media there is no truth. The reason they tell the truth today is because of another agenda they support. But they will contradict themselves tomorrow when the truth is no longer convenient.
Link: https://www.nytimes.com/article/china-covid-protests.html