China Covid: Chinese protesters say police seeking them out

[Timber Rattler]

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-63785351?fbclid=IwAR1fAf5VyVYgY5dNqFANvnbTryHWwQLSei_dJtyBvOkGAtJtW9fZtJwr47U

People in China who attended weekend protests against Covid restrictions say they have been contacted by police, as authorities begin clamping down.

Several people in Beijing said police had called demanding information about their whereabouts.

It is unclear how police might have discovered their identities.

On Tuesday officials renewed a promise to speed up efforts to vaccinate older people. Vaccination rates among elderly people are relatively low.

China has recorded record numbers of new cases in recent days.

Over the weekend, thousands in China took to the streets demanding an end to Covid lockdowns - with some even making rare calls for President Xi Jinping to stand down.

But on Monday, planned protests in Beijing did not happen after officers surrounded the assembly point. In Shanghai, large barriers were erected along the main protest route and police made several arrests.

The demonstrations began after a fire in a high-rise block in Urumqi, western China, killed 10 people on Thursday. Many Chinese believe Covid restrictions contributed to the deaths, although the authorities deny this.

Asked whether the protests would prompt a change to zero-Covid rules, an official said China would continue to "fine tune and modify" its measures.

"We are going to maintain and control the negative impact to people's livelihoods and lives," said Mi Feng, a National Health Commission spokesman, at a press conference.

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[Timber Rattler]

Even worse:

https://twitter.com/i/status/1597238144600244225

Guangzhou city today. If Chinese government remotely switches your health passport to code yellow, you will become homeless.

Because with yellow code on your phone, you can't go back to your apartment, stay at hotel, take any public transport...trouble to get food too

https://twitter.com/i/status/1596060163123064835

Help!

Chinese government is simultaneously building hundreds quarantine camps now. This new one is designed to detain 48,000 people

They can simply flip a switch to remotely turn your COVID passport to code red, then you need to do your time in a quarantine camp and pay for it.

https://twitter.com/i/status/1595065315003703296

If you try to enter public place with a red QR code...immediately an Alam goes off.

Chinese govt can easily cut you off from society By remotely switch your COVID passport to code red.

Code QR red in China means you need to do your time in a quarantine camp and pay for it.

https://twitter.com/i/status/1596967307678318594

The largest quarantine camp in China's Guangzhou city is being built.
It has 90,000 isolation pods.

https://twitter.com/i/status/1597269636080623617

The Chinese government is sealing residents in their homes & locking them down for 0-COVID

There was a fire at one of the buildings and 10 people died. Gov officials blamed the people for not knowing alternative escape routes

The mask mandate people would have supported this