Posted on 03/22/2020 6:42:48 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
The number of Chinese cellphone users dropped by 21 million in the past three months, Beijing authorities announced on March 19. Deaths due to the CCP virus may have contributed to the high number of account closings.
Cellphones are an indispensable part of life in China.
“The digitization level is very high in China. People can’t survive without a cellphone,” Tang Jingyuan, a U.S.-based China affairs commentator, told The Epoch Times on March 21. “Dealing with the government for pensions and social security, buying train tickets, shopping … no matter what people want to do, they are required to use cellphones.
“The Chinese regime requires all Chinese to use their cellphones to generate a health code. Only with a green health code are Chinese allowed to move in China now. It’s impossible for a person to cancel his cellphone.”
China introduced mandatory facial scans on Dec. 1, 2019, to confirm the identity of the person who registered the phone. As early as Sept. 1, 2010, China required all cellphone users to register phones with their real identification, by which the state can control people’s speech via its large-scale monitoring system.
Furthermore, Chinese people’s bank accounts and social security accounts are bundled with their cellphone plans; apps on Chinese phones check SIM cards against the state’s database to make sure the number belongs to the user.
Beijing first launched cellphone-based health codes on March 10. All people in China must install a cellphone app and register their personal health information. Then the app can generate a QR code, which appears in three colors, to classify the user’s health level. Red means the person has an infectious disease, yellow means the person might have one, and green means the person doesn’t.
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Interesting
Chilling.
This would explain why they were building crematoriums as far back as December, that we know of.
So, are you thinking the cause is that 21 million died, or that the facial recognition requirement, followed by the health coding requirement may have caused so many phone to go dark?
Both....
According to the article cell phones are an absolute necessity for living Chinese citizens. Dead ones, not so much.
Mandatory facial recognition and tracking via cell phone . . .
21 million unexpected dead in a few months time would have the dead stacked like cordwood on every street corner, park, parking lot and would fill every stadium to capacity.
Sheer BS.
21 million dead is 21,000 piles of 1,000 corpses.
And not one photo or video...
Or it could indicate, that many people simply disconnected their cellphones, because the government wanted them to include their health information, on the phones.
Note the last paragraph.
Ping
Can this really be true?
Deaths due to the CCP virus may have contributed to the high number of account closings.
Our satellites would have picked that up. You can’t hide and process bodies of that number.
Add to that a long-rumored economic downturn in China.
So in truth, the genuine number of deaths in China was around 21 million?
Thats far beyond what has been officially reported.
Perhaps they just could not pay for their phones without work?
Or perhaps they left the city and headed home to rural areas?
21 million deaths is very hard to believe.
A lot of body bags and new crematoriums, however.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-35196868
https://www.rfa.org/english/news/uyghur/crematoriums-06262018151126.html
https://www.ccn.com/billionaire-whistleblower-wuhan-coronavirus-death-toll-is-over-50000/
Maybe they could not pay their bills, decided to stop using cell phones, switched off their extra cell phone, or a number of other parameters. This means nothing without pertinent information.
Garbage!
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