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Saturday, April 11, 2020 11:39:18 PM
The Chinese experience
.. this is a further excerpt from .. "The Covid-19 exit strategy: when will Australia know the coronavirus battle is over?"
Whew, lol, i would HAVE to own a mobile if i lived in China.
Wuhan, the original centre of the virus, has begun to lift the restrictions on movement after 76 days of near-total lockdown. Movement is now allowed out of the city to the wider Hubei province and beyond.
At its peak, Wuhan’s lockdown was extreme: images of doors being welded shut to lock people in their homes shocked the world.
Authoritarian regimes are less concerned about curtailing their citizens’ civil liberties and human rights. Liberal democracies find such measures harder to implement: their populations will not tolerate such extreme impositions.
“We’re not going to go and cut and paste measures from other places, which have completely different societies. I mean, in China they were welding people’s doors shut,” Morrison told reporters bluntly. “That might be OK with them, but … we have different ways of doing things in Australia.”
Travellers line up outside Hankou railway station in Wuhan after travel restrictions were lifted. Photograph: Aly Song/Reuters
China has been condemned, queried and praised for its response to Covid-19: lauded for its swift and effective lockdown measures; questioned over the veracity of its infection reporting and suppression of information; and excoriated for its failure to adequately warn the world in the initial stages of outbreak and silencing doctors who tried to raise the alarm.
But, even as restrictions ease across the world’s most populous nation, freedom there post-Covid is scarcely unrestrained.
China’s Health Code app has been downloaded by 700 million people. It is mandatory in some Covid-19-affected areas, such as Wuhan, for even the most fundamental freedoms – to enter a supermarket, catch a taxi, ride the subway or see a doctor.
Users must first fill in their personal details, including their national ID number, where they live and whether they have been in contact with confirmed cases of the virus. The app then gives them a colour-coded rating: green means they are free to travel; yellow mandates seven days quarantine, and red requires 14 days.
The app also quietly collects – and shares with police – a user’s location and travel data.
The “freedom” provided by this technological development has not been universally welcomed.
“I thought the days when humans are ruled by machines and algorithms won’t happen for at least another 50 years, one blogger on Zhihu wrote. “This coronavirus epidemic has suddenly brought it on early.”
Human Rights Watch described the Health Code app as “automated tyranny” .. https://www.hrw.org/news/2020/04/01/china-fighting-covid-19-automated-tyranny .
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/11/the-covid-19-exit-strategy-when-will-australia-know-the-coronavirus-battle-is-over
.. this is a further excerpt from .. "The Covid-19 exit strategy: when will Australia know the coronavirus battle is over?"
Whew, lol, i would HAVE to own a mobile if i lived in China.
Wuhan, the original centre of the virus, has begun to lift the restrictions on movement after 76 days of near-total lockdown. Movement is now allowed out of the city to the wider Hubei province and beyond.
At its peak, Wuhan’s lockdown was extreme: images of doors being welded shut to lock people in their homes shocked the world.
Authoritarian regimes are less concerned about curtailing their citizens’ civil liberties and human rights. Liberal democracies find such measures harder to implement: their populations will not tolerate such extreme impositions.
“We’re not going to go and cut and paste measures from other places, which have completely different societies. I mean, in China they were welding people’s doors shut,” Morrison told reporters bluntly. “That might be OK with them, but … we have different ways of doing things in Australia.”
Travellers line up outside Hankou railway station in Wuhan after travel restrictions were lifted. Photograph: Aly Song/Reuters
China has been condemned, queried and praised for its response to Covid-19: lauded for its swift and effective lockdown measures; questioned over the veracity of its infection reporting and suppression of information; and excoriated for its failure to adequately warn the world in the initial stages of outbreak and silencing doctors who tried to raise the alarm.
But, even as restrictions ease across the world’s most populous nation, freedom there post-Covid is scarcely unrestrained.
China’s Health Code app has been downloaded by 700 million people. It is mandatory in some Covid-19-affected areas, such as Wuhan, for even the most fundamental freedoms – to enter a supermarket, catch a taxi, ride the subway or see a doctor.
Users must first fill in their personal details, including their national ID number, where they live and whether they have been in contact with confirmed cases of the virus. The app then gives them a colour-coded rating: green means they are free to travel; yellow mandates seven days quarantine, and red requires 14 days.
The app also quietly collects – and shares with police – a user’s location and travel data.
The “freedom” provided by this technological development has not been universally welcomed.
“I thought the days when humans are ruled by machines and algorithms won’t happen for at least another 50 years, one blogger on Zhihu wrote. “This coronavirus epidemic has suddenly brought it on early.”
Human Rights Watch described the Health Code app as “automated tyranny” .. https://www.hrw.org/news/2020/04/01/china-fighting-covid-19-automated-tyranny .
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/11/the-covid-19-exit-strategy-when-will-australia-know-the-coronavirus-battle-is-over
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