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A banner sees through the Hong Kong government's attitude on fighting the virus
(5 Mar) Does anyone else share my bafflement on the utility of 3-storey tall banners saying "We Fight the Virus" on buildings in all 18 districts?
We can clearly see if the government is genuinely fighting the epidemic. It is not as if hanging huge banners to announce your work actually proves anything.
In the same space currently occupied by banners, the government could have displayed preventative information like reminding citizens when to wash hands, the steps for correct hand washing, to cover the toilet seat when flushing, proper surgical mask usage, etc. Instead, the government put up a vainglorious and empty 4-word slogan.
The funniest thing is the website URL at the bottom of the banner saying, "For more information on fighting the virus". What information is even on the banner? Why is the same URL shown twice in such a large font? With the money wasted on these banners, I could have been better off spending 1,000 HKD on masks and alcohol sanitizers than on such a tactless public relations campaign. Every day, I see my district councillor friends scramble for just one or two boxes of masks while we are helpless in the face of our oblivious government.
By the way, the QR code is 5 m above the ground. How could I scan it? Are you teasing me for not being 10 feet tall?
The only explanation is that this bureaucratic government does not use its brain. If anyone can see the merits of these banners in fighting the virus, please enlighten me.
Source: Facebook
https://bit.ly/39Ws2Fi
#FailedState #Bureaucracy #Coronavirus #DistrictCouncillor #QRCode
A banner sees through the Hong Kong government's attitude on fighting the virus
(5 Mar) Does anyone else share my bafflement on the utility of 3-storey tall banners saying "We Fight the Virus" on buildings in all 18 districts?
We can clearly see if the government is genuinely fighting the epidemic. It is not as if hanging huge banners to announce your work actually proves anything.
In the same space currently occupied by banners, the government could have displayed preventative information like reminding citizens when to wash hands, the steps for correct hand washing, to cover the toilet seat when flushing, proper surgical mask usage, etc. Instead, the government put up a vainglorious and empty 4-word slogan.
The funniest thing is the website URL at the bottom of the banner saying, "For more information on fighting the virus". What information is even on the banner? Why is the same URL shown twice in such a large font? With the money wasted on these banners, I could have been better off spending 1,000 HKD on masks and alcohol sanitizers than on such a tactless public relations campaign. Every day, I see my district councillor friends scramble for just one or two boxes of masks while we are helpless in the face of our oblivious government.
By the way, the QR code is 5 m above the ground. How could I scan it? Are you teasing me for not being 10 feet tall?
The only explanation is that this bureaucratic government does not use its brain. If anyone can see the merits of these banners in fighting the virus, please enlighten me.
Source: Facebook
https://bit.ly/39Ws2Fi
#FailedState #Bureaucracy #Coronavirus #DistrictCouncillor #QRCode
#Newspaper
14 days with a quarantine tracker wristband: Does it even work?
//With the wristbands, the semi-autonomous Chinese territory is the first place to both track people and place a marker on their bodies. Everyone arriving from foreign countries is required to wear the bands while remaining isolated for two weeks.
//Was this high-tech bracelet actually just a strip of paper?
//Those under quarantine could serve out their two weeks anywhere in the city, so long as they wore their wristband and stayed within the perimeter they registered on an accompanying app.
//The young woman, a fellow Hong Konger studying abroad, had actually never been issued a wristband
//At the airport, Song and the other arrivals had learned that they would be texted a PIN. Only with the PIN could they register the boundaries of their digital cage. But none had received the PIN.
//The longer they spent gazing at this thing on their wrist, the more skeptical they became that it — on its own — did anything.
//“They are just, like, waterproof strips of paper,” Song said. “I don’t know if they have any digital things embedded in them.”
//He said it was strange that there had been so much hype around something so “useless.”
//From then on, whenever her phone was in an unregistered spot, it emitted a horrible beep. Stopping it required scanning every family member’s wristband QR code.
//But what if you just left your phone inside your apartment, within the registered boundaries, and walked outside? Would the authorities ever know you violated quarantine?
//“The government can lie to us and tell us this is tracking you all the time, and I think if you believed that, you probably wouldn’t go out,”
//So, in the end, Hong Kong’s rigid quarantine system seemed to work. But what had kept Lalwani fully isolated were her own instincts.
Full Article: Chicago Tribune, (08-Apr)
https://bit.ly/2V5yvci
Further reading:
Passenger: Epidemic screening at the Hong Kong airport is loose and sloppy
https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/18938
#Wristbands #QRcode #SelfHelp #WaterproofPaper #Quarantine #Coronavirus #HongKong #Instinct
14 days with a quarantine tracker wristband: Does it even work?
//With the wristbands, the semi-autonomous Chinese territory is the first place to both track people and place a marker on their bodies. Everyone arriving from foreign countries is required to wear the bands while remaining isolated for two weeks.
//Was this high-tech bracelet actually just a strip of paper?
//Those under quarantine could serve out their two weeks anywhere in the city, so long as they wore their wristband and stayed within the perimeter they registered on an accompanying app.
//The young woman, a fellow Hong Konger studying abroad, had actually never been issued a wristband
//At the airport, Song and the other arrivals had learned that they would be texted a PIN. Only with the PIN could they register the boundaries of their digital cage. But none had received the PIN.
//The longer they spent gazing at this thing on their wrist, the more skeptical they became that it — on its own — did anything.
//“They are just, like, waterproof strips of paper,” Song said. “I don’t know if they have any digital things embedded in them.”
//He said it was strange that there had been so much hype around something so “useless.”
//From then on, whenever her phone was in an unregistered spot, it emitted a horrible beep. Stopping it required scanning every family member’s wristband QR code.
//But what if you just left your phone inside your apartment, within the registered boundaries, and walked outside? Would the authorities ever know you violated quarantine?
//“The government can lie to us and tell us this is tracking you all the time, and I think if you believed that, you probably wouldn’t go out,”
//So, in the end, Hong Kong’s rigid quarantine system seemed to work. But what had kept Lalwani fully isolated were her own instincts.
Full Article: Chicago Tribune, (08-Apr)
https://bit.ly/2V5yvci
Further reading:
Passenger: Epidemic screening at the Hong Kong airport is loose and sloppy
https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/18938
#Wristbands #QRcode #SelfHelp #WaterproofPaper #Quarantine #Coronavirus #HongKong #Instinct
chicagotribune.com
14 days with a quarantine tracker wristband: Does it even work?
With the wristbands, the semi-autonomous Chinese territory is the first place to both track people and place a marker on their bodies. Everyone arriving from foreign countries is required to wear the bands while remaining isolated for two weeks. https://…
#MassSurveillance #BigBrother
Covid-19: China pushes for QR Code based global travel system
In the G20 summit, Xi Jinping pushed QR codes which could be used to recognize “health certificates based on nucleic acid test result.
Human Rights advocates want that the codes could be used for “broader political monitoring and exclusion”. And the codes are based on a combination of big data and information submitted by the users themselves.
Chinese QR codes was developed by financial technology giant Ant Financial, and is available through its main app Alipay, but also on WeChat, which belongs to Alipay’s competitor Tencent.
Source: BBC #Nov23
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-55039662
#China #G20Summit #QRcode #Covid19 #HealthCode #Privacy #BigData
Covid-19: China pushes for QR Code based global travel system
In the G20 summit, Xi Jinping pushed QR codes which could be used to recognize “health certificates based on nucleic acid test result.
Human Rights advocates want that the codes could be used for “broader political monitoring and exclusion”. And the codes are based on a combination of big data and information submitted by the users themselves.
Chinese QR codes was developed by financial technology giant Ant Financial, and is available through its main app Alipay, but also on WeChat, which belongs to Alipay’s competitor Tencent.
Source: BBC #Nov23
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-55039662
#China #G20Summit #QRcode #Covid19 #HealthCode #Privacy #BigData
Xi Jinping Advocates “Internationally Accepted QR Codes” to Track Global Population
Chinese President Xi Jinping attended the G20 Leaders’ Summit via video conference on Saturday (Nov 21), during which he expressed his wish for more countries to participate in an international mutual recognized mechanism for health codes proposed by China, in order to rapidly track international travels and movements of personnel during the pandemic.
Xi proposed that all countries should formulate a universal set of policies and standards to counter the pandemic, enhance the relationship between policies and standards, and establish “fast tracks” to facilitate the flow of personnel, to ensure the smooth operation of the global economy amid the pandemic. Xi proposed that the mechanism was based on nucleic acid test results and administered through internationally accepted QR codes, and expressed his hope for more countries to participate. He did not, however, specify the types of applications or QR code systems, or who to design and manage the system.
China has widely implemented health certificates locally using QR codes that also contain personal travel and health records. The codes were deemed effective in curbing the spread of COVID-19 in mainland China. The code system assigns different colour codes to users based on their risks of potential infection: Green denotes the lowest risk, followed by yellow, with red denoting the highest risk.
#China #CCP #XiJinping #Xi #G20 #G20LeadersSummit #LeadersSummit #healthcode #UN #QRCode #nucleicacidtest
Source: Stand News #Nov24
https://bit.ly/37CdaMv
Chinese President Xi Jinping attended the G20 Leaders’ Summit via video conference on Saturday (Nov 21), during which he expressed his wish for more countries to participate in an international mutual recognized mechanism for health codes proposed by China, in order to rapidly track international travels and movements of personnel during the pandemic.
Xi proposed that all countries should formulate a universal set of policies and standards to counter the pandemic, enhance the relationship between policies and standards, and establish “fast tracks” to facilitate the flow of personnel, to ensure the smooth operation of the global economy amid the pandemic. Xi proposed that the mechanism was based on nucleic acid test results and administered through internationally accepted QR codes, and expressed his hope for more countries to participate. He did not, however, specify the types of applications or QR code systems, or who to design and manage the system.
China has widely implemented health certificates locally using QR codes that also contain personal travel and health records. The codes were deemed effective in curbing the spread of COVID-19 in mainland China. The code system assigns different colour codes to users based on their risks of potential infection: Green denotes the lowest risk, followed by yellow, with red denoting the highest risk.
#China #CCP #XiJinping #Xi #G20 #G20LeadersSummit #LeadersSummit #healthcode #UN #QRCode #nucleicacidtest
Source: Stand News #Nov24
https://bit.ly/37CdaMv