China's Covid~Zero testing, health apps, and the human domino theory


Posted On: Thursday - November 24th 2022 5:35PM MST
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Note: This is totally different from the Domino Theory of Communist infestation of the world, as theorized during the Cold War. There was definitely something to that. This human domino theory, luckily internal to China, is on a much stupider scale.



I write these China posts not because I think the average Peak Stupidity reader gives that much of a hoot about the place. However, this site has covered the Kung Flu PanicFest with gusto for the previous 2 3/4 years, China is the place in which the Kung Flu stupidity has flared up like a bad case of herpes, and lastly, we also have our China sources, so call this stuff "in our wheelhouse".

3 months back, we related an anecdote of the Covid~Zero stupidity out of Canton, aka, Guangzhou, the huge manufacturing center in the southeast (just north of Hong Kong) in Inside info on the latest Oriental Kung Flu Stupidity The Chinafolks involved got through the LOCKDOWN of their ~25,000 person apartment complex. That deal lasted one week.

The same people involved are now in some sort of low-grade observation period. They must get tested for the common cold Covid virus every 24 hours for some uncertain period. Don't worry! The computers got this all figured out. They know what they're doing, man!

Here's the part that struck me as unworkable. That health score, red, yellow, or green, on one's phone app would stay green if the swab up your nose says negatory. But, there's the standing in line part. There's also what is called "contact tracing" using the most modern Chinese "TECH". Now, this could happen anywhere else too, at a grocery store, school, mooncake festival, what-have-you. Only, in line, as I asked my Chinasource about, if you ended up standing by someone who eventually tested positive, then your score has got to go down to yellow or worse, since you were standing in that line that morning with him, probably for quite some time. But if your score is now yellow, meaning you may have to stay inside or even quarantine elsewhere (Crap!), the guy in line on the other side should have his score turned to warning level too, as he was with you, maybe not WHEN you were yellow, but when you were standing next to that yellow dude. (We're talking apps here, not skin color. Don't be raciss!)

It's the Covid~Zero domino theory:



How are you supposed to beat the Capitalist Roaders with these LOCKDOWNs, color-coded health scores, testing lines, and the human domino effect? Oh, wait, they ARE the Capitalist Roaders now. It's as if Chairman Pooh-Bear were driving a 10 y/o beat-to-hell Mustang II with a persistent oil leak, broken vacuum lines, and a bent tie-rod. He's likely to drive the place clean off the Capitalist Road - "How does it feel, like you're some kind of hero, LOCKDOWN II, Boredom Zero!"

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Moderator
Thursday - November 24th 2022 7:43PM MST
PS: "As if intelligence and communism are able to coexist." I really thought the place was going in the right direction 15 years ago, P.A.
Planned Apocalypsegeddon
Thursday - November 24th 2022 7:19PM MST
PS But, but, but, muh vaccine?
I thought China be like all smart and stuff.
As if intelligence and communism are able to coexist.
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