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There are serious ramifications to being exposed to Covid-19 in China -- and not just infection. As the country confronts its biggest outbreak ever, residents in major cities are hunkering down because of the prospect of being sent to a quarantine camp or locked down at home.
Going out in the capital of Beijing means having to scan a QR code to enter venues like shops and restaurants, or to even take public transportation. Under the country’s ubiquitous contract-tracing surveillance system, visiting the same places as someone who later turns up infected can land you in a government isolation facility, where conditions can be so poor that some people say they are buying chamber pots and portable tents in preparation.
That’s why the capital has largely battened down. People are staying at home as transmission increases, even though the overall risk of infection remains low, with 1,854 cases reported for the city of 22 million people on Thursday.
“I’m not scared of getting infected at all,” said Liu, a 36 year-old who works in the media industry. “I’m in fear of getting locked down or even sent to a quarantine facility. There’s a higher chance I end up there if I scan those codes to get into public venues.”
More:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/other/fear-of-quarantine-camps-not-covid-is-shutting-beijing-down/ar-AA14xMOk Some Reported Daily New Cases Per 100,000 population, 7 day moving average:
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/world/covid-cases.html
104 South Korea
69 Japan
58 France
49 Italy
...
31 New Mexico
26 Arizona
...
13 U.S.
...
2 China
Granted all reported case statistics are an undercount
I know, I know. China is probably cheating. But whenever I post some U.S. state statistics, people tell me the red states are all cheating. And so it goes. Sigh.
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