Posted on 02/11/2020 8:09:18 AM PST by COUNTrecount
CHINA has developed an app that will tell users if they’ve come into “close contact” with people infected with coronavirus.
The new software will allow users in the country to scan a QR code via apps such as Alipay, WeChat or QQ to make an inquiry about whether they have come into contact with someone carrying the deadly virus.
People are urged to register their phone number and national ID number to use the service.
China’s national news agency Xinhua said: “After registering with a phone number, users need to enter their name and [government-issued national] ID number to know whether they were in close contact with someone infected.
“Every registered phone number can be used to inquire for three ID numbers.”
Government guidelines state that anyone who has come into “close contact” with the deadly virus should stay at home and contact health authorities.
“Close contact” refers to someone who has come in close distance, with no effective protection, with confirmed cases, suspected cases or mild cases while the person was ill or showed symptoms of being ill, according to China’s National Health Commission.
It can include: People who work close together, share same classroom or live in same house.
Medical staff, family members or other people who have been in close contact with patients in a closed environment and other patients in the same room and their caregivers.
Plus, passengers and crew members who have been in the same transportation facility with patients (confirmed and suspected cases) and infected cases (mild cases and asymptomatic cases).
Hong Kong-based technology lawyer at the law firm DLA Piper Carolyn Bigg told the BBC: “From a Chinese perspective this is a really useful service for people.
“It’s a really powerful tool that really shows the power of data being used for good.”
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What could possibly go wrong with that??
Send it to Iowa!
Yeah, like we’re going to trust Chinese software.
For anything...
Send it to Iowa!
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LOL!
Too late for Iowa but maybe it will work for Nevada.
Right!!?? And, if someone shows up “positive” as having been exposed to an infected person, do they automatically come and take them away to the internment camps or crematorium?
I hope it works better than the “Shadow” app.
Por supuesto!
“Espionage device, please tell the government where I’m at and who I’ve seen, thanks.”
So if the app alerts the government that I’ve come in contact with a carrier, I guess I can expect the men in white to come and cart me off to a quarantine center (a large assembly room filled with cots). No thanks. But I suppose if you don’t sign up for the app, you might be carted off anyway.
I think they’re just weeding out the ones with low IQs.
... by hard-fisted communists.
Then come back in 4 months to get the answer.
“What could possibly go wrong with that?? “
That line is getting old.
China already has the data. This just lets the people have access.
Possible and theoretical results after close contact registered by the app:
“Medical staff” will pay a home visit, take your temperature. If you have a raised temperature, they will chain your door shut from the outside; if you have a high temperature and other symptoms, they will administer the test kit and take you to the hospital; if you are really sick, they will forcibly remove you and others from the dwelling sending all to a sealed quarantine camp to get well or die on their own.
Deaths, after recovery, from organ failure will be treated as a ‘normal’ death with the body cremated per CCP order.
Is this part of China’s “Black Mirror” social score app?
Lol
There goes your social credit score.
China knows where all the infected people are?
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