My comment: Now, it COULD be that they are doing all this "merely" to make sure everyone is compliant - a much more prisonized version of what we went through. The paranoid part of me, however, wonders if the Chinese government knows something else is coming down the pike pretty soon....? Nah. Can't be that! That would be even more crazy than wondering if Biden actually won the 2020 election.... -Fiz
http://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/take-rare-glimpse-inside-chinas-zero-covid-madhouse
P.S. I recommend the link, as there are photos!
It's not that Hale (a foreign journalist who lost the lottery) had tested positive. Merely being designated as a "close contact" was enough to sentence him to 10 days of confinement on a secret island camp identified only as "P7."
Hale provides a primer on framework of China's system works:
"PCR testing in China is an almost daily ritual and testing booths are common on many street corners. They look vaguely like food stalls, except they’re larger and cube-shaped and a worker inside sits behind Plexiglas cut with two arm holes.
They are merely the surface machinery of a vast monitoring system. China’s digital Covid pass resembles track-and-trace programmes elsewhere, except it’s mandatory and it works. Using Alipay or WeChat, the country’s two major apps, a QR code is linked to each person’s most recent test results. The code must be scanned to get in anywhere, thereby tracking your location. Green means you can enter; red means you have a problem."
Hale's journey into Covid madness started with an innocent outing at a Shanghai bar. Apparently, someone who'd also been at the bar tested positive. Via the tracking system, the authorities knew Hale had been there too.
Hale had "won" some kind of terrible lottery: On the day he was in the bar, there were only 18 cases in all of Shanghai that day -- a city of 26 million people.
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