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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
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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://…