If you’ve tested positive, you have to wear one. This isn’t the first time such measures have been put in place. At the beginning of the pandemic in 2020, Hong Kong used bracelets to track people under home quarantine. There were two of them, one was a plastic wristband with a QR code and the other had an electronic tracker built into it.
Citizens in China are part of a health code system that tracks their movements via mobile phones. They are only allowed to enter public spaces if the QR code is green. If it’s yellow that means people have been in close contact with an infected person, and if it’s red that means they have tested positive for the virus.
Human rights watchdogs have long criticised China’s health code system as an invasion of privacy, warning that Beijing uses data collected by the system to help control and restrict freedoms.
The irony of western media outlets writing about China’s handling of the coronavirus, and other ways their government chooses to govern their citizens, isn’t really much different from North American and some European governments. Much of the world witnessed this when mandatory lockdown measures were introduced, forcing people to close their business and stay at home for prolonged periods of time. Many people lost their jobs due to vaccine mandates, which are still in place in several different ways across the planet.
Despite all of the harms that these measures caused, both health and economy wise, these harms and basic COVID-19 facts were completely ignored by government health agencies and mainstream media networks. Instead, only one perspective dominated the narrative, capturing the consciousness of millions...<<<Read More>>>>....
