Smartphones, which are carried by most working-age Chinese is a powerful tool in trying to identify people who may be carrying the virus.
Hangzhou city has a self-assessment health-check app. If it classifies someone as a possible carrier of the virus, The red colour of the qr code on Ms Sun’s “Hangzhou Health Code” app indicated that she was supposed to be undergoing 14 days of self-quarantine. Had the code been yellow, it would have meant she was a lower risk and had to isolate herself for seven days. For free passage around the city, people must produce their phones at checkpoints and show they have a green qr code.
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Another use of smartphones, is for people (in Shenzhen for example) to scan a code to register for entry into the city.
Big data still not tailored to fight the virus
Police across China are using big data, provided by Beiyang, a private company, and other private companies to identify individuals (who may or may not have coronavirus) in crowds. Beiyang claims its technology has led to a 22% in calls to China’s emergency hotline, a 36% drop in muggings and 40 per cent fewer burglaries.
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A Shanghai company says it can assess a person’s emotional state through a 60-second video analysis via smartphonesof “skin, eyeballs, corners of your mouth, eyelids and bodily vibrations”. If it discovers abnormal levels of aggression or stress, people are advised to seek appropriate psychological help
But the use of manpower is still the most common method of getting things done: people man checkpoints armed with clipboards and thermometer guns, or to go door-to-door making note of sniffles.
If the Chinese had introduced the surveillance system it set up in Xinjiang to monitor the Jihadist Joes and Jills in an attempt keep the world safe from Muslim terrorism, to the rest of China, it would have been better equipped to contain the spread of the virus: Did Hali ask Xi for this app when they met?
Moral of the story:
Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither castye your pearls before swine, lest they trample themunder their feet, and turn again and rend you.
Matthew 7:6
Btw,
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommend the shaving of beards as a precaution against Covid 19 infection. The Iranian, Taliban and other mad mullahs will say Wuhan virus is CIA or Chinese plot against Islam.
Thoughts of a Cynical Investor 