China’s social scoring system as used to control Coronavirus outbreaks; a first hand account

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Here in this article we will look at the events of mid-January 2022 in Zhuhai, China where a serious outbreak of five people caught the coronavirus. We discuss how it came about, the rules and laws supporting the suppression of the virus, and MM my first-hand account of the entire wiz-bang. I hope you find it interesting and enlightening.

The opinions / scaremongering of the Western media…

The “news” is all filled with nonsense about how terrible the Chinese “social credit scoring system” is. It is presented in such a way that the individual looks upon it in horror. And from a lone, independent individual, it is a horror. It’s a bunch of added (and seemingly) unrealistic restrictions on one’s “freedom”.

All true, but all out of context.

But China is NOT a nation of independent individuals. So you cannot look at the Chinese system from that lens or viewpoint. You must look at things as they actually are. Not as you fear them to be (from your limited point of view).

China is a nation of communities.

There is the large “big” community of the Han race. Then, under that, is the (also big) community of the Mainland China nation. Then, under that, are the regional communities. Such as Guangzhou, Wenzhou, etc. Then within each of those communities are further smaller communities, and so on and so forth. Eventually, drilling down to your local community. Which in my case is my six building housing complex within the JiDa subsection of the Zhuhai city proper.

When you are part of a community, you are special.

You are not alone.

You are surrounded by others like you. Sure, you might be having a hard time, but YOUR community will not allow you to suffer. They will come to your aid. The community is self-serving. This is why you have volunteers, and this is why it’s hard to find beggars and homeless in China. The communities will not allow it to occur.

Community. China. Video. 3MB

You must obey the rules of being in that community. Membership has privileges. But, you must obey the rules, and you must participate, and you must be helpful, and you must be a good citizen.

No littering, kids cannot graffiti up the streets. The community self-polices behavior. The community provides you help when you need it. You are not alone. You are never alone, and if you are in trouble and require help, you reach out to YOUR community, and they will do whatever is necessary to help you.

China is an extension of your family. video 4MB

Infographic

It’s pretty well done.

DEFCON

During the United States bioweapon attacks (2018 through 2021), and now the aftermath of the Covid-19 attacks resulting in rampant global coronavirus pandemics, China has maintained a posture of DEFCON ONE / TWO.

It’s a state of military readiness.

It’s a state of civilian readiness.

It’s a mandatory emergency state of affairs. China does not want to be like the clusterfuck that America is, like the UK is, like Australia is. China needs to support and protect its people.

And that means abeyance to rules and laws during a period of emergency.

This is enforced by the social credit scoring system. This system polices behavior and tracks people by AI to identify misfits, malcontents, people with poor social skills, sociopaths and psychopaths, as well as those who think they are being “free” when in reality they are just social misfits.

Why so many people have this negative idea aobut the social credit scoring system…

It’s rather simple really. video 8MB

And thus we come to my story.

How it came about

I live in Zhuhai.

It is right across the bay from Hong Kong / Shenzhen. (I can actually see Shenzhen from my living room window), and the massive (and famous) HK- Macao -Shenzhen bridge is right at my doorstep.

Map of my local region showing transportation options.

Hong Kong is part of China. Just like Macao and Taiwan are. Only it is administered at the local level differently. It is more than that. It “feels” different. It doesn’t feel “Chinese”.

It feels “Western”, which can mean many things.

The airline “Cathay Pacific” has routine flights in and out of Hong Kong. It’s a great airline, and it is (perhaps) my favorite airline to fly in. Second only to the Australian Qantas airline.

Cathay Pacific

Due to Chinese law, all crew must either stay on board their planes, or disembark to a quarantine area when landed. They are not permitted to exit that quarantine area as they are considered to be potential carriers of the Covid-19 virus.

Well, apparently, two stewardesses exited the quarantine area.

They left their hotels in defiance of the rules. They then went out and visited the sights of Hong Kong. They traveled in the subways, visited the many, many malls, ate at a restaurant and returned. Their absence was recorded, date stamped, observed and traced.

They were found out.

But not until afterwards. But by then the damage had already been done.

They lost their jobs. Obviously.

They were also arrested. They are both in jail now. They not only defied the rules. They broke the law during a time of emergency.

Maybe the Western press will not report it as such, but China has been at a state of military readiness at DEFCON ever since John Bolton / Donald Trump carpet bombed China with bioweapons in 2019 CNY. It’s a military emergency inside of China. It’s not “just another Vaxx scare”.

It’s a military state of readiness.

It’s serious, serious business.

How big their fees will be, and whether they will be charged with manslaughter, reckless endangerment, terrorism, and military sabotage has yet to be determined.

But, you can be guaranteed that they are facing some SERIOUS charges…

If one person gets Covid-19 and goes into ICU the former stewardesses can be expected to be hit with terrorism charges. 

If someone dies, it will also include manslaughter charges. 

If one of the sick people are a member of the government or military, it will ratchet up to sabotage charges. 

So...

At best case, they are looking at the loss of their jobs, fines and fees, jail time, and destruction of their careers, as well as perma-banning ever to visit China ever again.

At worst case, they could spend years in a hard-labor mainland Chinese labor camp to include mandatory organ harvesting.

And, yeah, sure enough, they were carrying the virus, and they spread it all over Hong Kong.

Dumb fucks.

Immediately, (It’s a funny thing, how quickly it was reported on. What a coincidence!) the Western news proclaimed “Massive outbreaks all over China!“, and “China is unable to control the Omicron variant!”.

And soon…

Two women, with their three children, caught the virus and brought it back to their homes in Zhuhai.

How do we know?

The women and their children were all in Hong Kong. Hong Kong is popular with the mainland Chinese, and many make frequent trips back and forth. Even now, in this period of pandemic.

The women weren’t feeling well about two weeks after they left quarantine.  (You have a two-week quarantine period going back and forth from HK, unless you have a special residency permit.) Neither were their children.

Anyway, they ordered some throat medicine through the internet.

But you know, all medicine purchases (in China) are tracked.

The AI tracked their medicines, and their movements, and their actions and their behaviors over the last few months. It crunched the numbers. And so it then identified them as possible carriers.

Within hours of placing that order in Taobao (a popular Chinese app for purchases. Sort of like Amazon.com on steroids.) a medical team was dispatched to their homes, and they were tested in their living rooms on the spot.

Taobao.

How the local city reacted

They were told to stay in their homes until the results were cleared. They didn’t have to wait long. They found out hours later.

At the SAME TIME…

Their entire section of the city was shut down. Everything went into lock down, and everyone started to get their tests. Road blocks were set up. No entry or egress to stores, restaurants, or businesses. Everyone was in lock down and tested.

There were no “discussions”. Nor were there any back and forth calls and meetings to figure out what to do. It was simple and straight forward.

An outbreak had occurred.

Full lock-down protocols were engaged.

And, just like that (image of MM snapping his fingers) everyone’s QR went orange.

Snapping fingers.

How do I know this is what happened?

China is 100% transparent on it’s domestic issues.

The people and the government believe that the way to confront problems directly is to look them in the eye and deal with facts. Not what you want to see or present but as they actually are.

They do not have to lie.

There are no citizens to maniplate. No polls to jive up. There are no reasons to hide facts. They don’t need to look better, or present a better face to the public. They just tell you how things are and that’s that. (MM slapping his hands together as if washing them.)

Notification

So when the individuals were discovered, everyone inside of Zhuhai was alerted in real time.

Zhuhai, China alert notice.

And here is the translation of the above. Part 1…

 

And, part 2…

What is a QR code scan?

First of all, a QR code is common inside of China. It’s everywhere. It’s a funny little box of pixilated dots that you scan with your phone. It can open up apps, webpages, download things, and do all sorts of “neat-o” things.

QR codes to apply.

When I refer to a QR, I am actually using slang. I am referring to one of the multiple “Medical access QR applications”. You scan them to get into buildings, to use taxis, or DD (the Chinese version of Uber), to go into stores or malls or to enter and leave various complexes.

When you scan, it will compute and connect your movements and your interactions with the rest of society. It will see if you are up-to-date with your testing, injections and so on and so forth.

If you have been inoculated, and up to the regional testing protocols, it will be  green.

My green QR.

Consequences of an orange QR

If your QR is not green, but rather orange, you are a potential virus carrier. You will need to immediately bypass any testing clinics and go straight to the hospital. Each hospital has set up a separate (and isolated) “orange” wing. You go there and get tested or inoculated.

Until you do so, you cannot go anywhere, visit any place, or do anything. You are disabled and disbarred from entry.

Consequences of a red QR

Red is not good.

You report to the hospital and follow their instructions.

What happens if you break quarantine inside of China…

What happens?

Bad things happen. That’s what.

Well, aside from the fines, fees, code red listing, and jail time… you get to be paraded in your community to show the entire world what a fucking selfish dipshit you actually are. Video 4.3MB

Enter my Chief Engineer

So I get a call from my Chief Engineer.

He tells me that he is under lock-down. He is confined to his house, and cannot go outside except to get tested in the front of his building. He tells me that he gets five tests a day. And that this will continue for the duration of the lockdown.

Uh. Oh.

Initially he told me that it would be for ten days, but now that number has been revised to three weeks, possibly longer.

Since this is right before CNY, just like in 2019, it looks like there will not be any Chinese New Year celebrations this year.

MM is drinking wine, and getting ready for bed

One day later…

I’m drinking wine, typing some. Listening to a show in the background (Two broke girls.) while my daughter is playing with legos, (a selection of) dolls, and an abacus. We get a knock at the door.

It’s 9:30 at night.

Who would be knocking on our door? We’re the only family on the floor.

Well, there were two volunteers from the local community and they told us to go downstairs and get tested for the virus.

But, you know, we were drinking and in our bed clothes. My wife told them that we had already been tested, and we went to bed.

Snooze sounds. Z z z z z z

The next day; Uh oh!

Phones are orange. QR code is orange. Apps won’t respond.

Uh oh!

So we go downstairs and there’s a tent in front of our complex.

Some details...

Testing tents are set up on every block. These are blue tents manned by volunteers all in full hazmat attire.

It goes without saying that everyone is wearing a mask. Everyone. There are no exceptions.

So we go and get tested.

Well… Off to the hospital

But…

But…

We do not have a green QR. So we cannot use the regular testing qiosk. Instead, we need to go to the hospital.

One of the volunteers in hazmat garb flags down a taxi and we get in, and are whisked off to the hospital.

Zoom…

Of course, in front of the hospital are all those testing qiosks as well. But we cannot go and use them. No sir. Instead, we have to go to the “orange wing” of the hospital.

Once we found it…

..I mean, it was way off and around the back of the hospital and far away from everyone. And it was deserted. There were scores of chairs set up and long weaiting roped off lines, but no one was there.

We jsut walked in as the only ones to get tested.

So we QR scanned, Were assigned a number and nasal swabbed, and off we went…

We went home.

By the way. It’s all 100% volunteers.

They are not being paid to do this. They are volunteering their time and their efforts. And it is appreciated. video 30MB

Later on, everything is green

Phew! It took about five hours.

But now we are all “green”.

Sure the resturants and stroes and malls are all closed, but we are no longer shunned “orange people” we are now fully green!

Woo woo!

Some videos

Here’s some that I took of the testing in front of my home… video 22.7MB

And this one… video 24.1 MB

And this one… video 37MB

So now you can understand the meme’s used in China

And thus you all can well understand these memes that’s been floating around the internet. Maybe not in the United States.

Most of the USA videos seems to be about massive urban mob-take-downs of trains, police shootings, fat black women in tights shaking their enormous posteriors, and Blinkedin and Biden  discussing their 3.5 trillion dollar domestic spending bill (on top of the 2 trillion dollar military spending bill). Plus a few notible funny cat videos and some “ow my balls!” videos. It’s a real mix. But nothing at all about actually dealing with the virus.

Here’s two of the Chinese memes regarding the terror of the orange QR…

Meme 1.

And…

Meme 2.

Compare all this to America

That’s what I do. After all, I’m still an American. Here’s what the equivent American line up looks for getting a Covid-19 swab. video 34MB

This next video is a line up to get checked for Covid-19 at a clinic. In the USA they don’t have free testing centers on every block staffed with volunteers. You have to go to a clinic and get tested instead.

Obviously one of those people (who made the video) who believe that Covid is a “hoax” is yelling at them.

Hoax, eh?

Well, my brother Daniel in Boulder, CO had this “hoax” for four weeks. He lost 34 pounds and hallucinated the entire time. And my first cousin died from it. She was five years younger than myself.

Line up in the USA. Video. 82MB

What’s next

Life will go on. We won’t have emuch of a celebration this year unfortunately. Already I have canceled the Company CNY dinner. Half my staff are in quarantine, and all public areas are shut down.

It’s gonna be one heck of a strange year it seems…

Conclusion

And that is my first hand account of what happens when someone gets Covid-19 inside of China. This is it. The real deal. I hope that you see what is going on, how China handles it and what it is like for us experiencing it first hand.

No. We are not being welded shut in our homes.

No, we are not pining away for “freedom” and “democracy”, and no we are not starving with empty and bare shelves. It’s all pretty normal, just really mellow and calm. It’s sort of like how after 9-11 all the New Yorkers walked in silence towards the outside of the city.

Calm and peaceful.

That’s us.

The longer that I am in China, the longer I have come to embrace the fact that we are all part of something bigger than ourselves. And that we must all work together in our own little, tiny ways, so that our world… our bubble of existence… our streets… and our friends are all better, cleaner, healthier, and happier. The future does belong to the Rufus.

Be that kind of person. Be that Rufus. Video. 20MB

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Palinurus

I don’t think you will convince many Americans of the benefits of this system, it’s far too draconian.

DSKlausler

I agree.

It’s not that I disagree with community and its benefits, but I have no desire to be FORCED into it. Are there not outliers… you know, “out in the country”?

I believe that I have recommend the movie Anon (Netflix) before – I still do. Here’s a relevant quote:

“It’s not that I have something to hide…
I have nothing I want you to see.”

Leave me alone, I will approach sincerely when I decide to; of course you too are free to reject my advance.

Chin

I do not think his intent is to convince Americans of anything. He is basically trying to give a factual account of how things are run there. The intent is to show others how to judge people fairly, instead of opining based on an incessant stream of media lies.

DSKlausler

Whether or not it is a “hoax” depends on where you are. For instance: why is there not such massive death here in Shitcago? Why does the CDC provably LIE about what “IT” is, and what people may, or may not be dying of?

Money, power and control.

And please hold off on the bullshit that 5G saturation is “safe.” If anything, I would say THAT is what [relatively] recently changed in a number of populous “covid” areas. Maybe we humans adapt, I dunno.

Of course there are tons of things polluting our bodies every day – not just the ever increasing radiation.

Feal

It must actually be comforting to be surrounded by such an abundance of common sense supplied by an army of Rufus volunteers.

It’s heart warming when you give such examples of real humanity at work. Without the “Old Empire” belligerents/psychopaths running things most people seem happy to work together for the common good.

Thank you.

Linda

Hey MM, thanks for this I have always wondered what’s it’s like and to be honest, this just sounds like the extreme opposite of what Australia is like (and that’s not a good thing).

There’s a lot here but I can’t help but see how casually you dropped:

At worst case, they could spend years in a hard-labor mainland Chinese labor camp to include mandatory organ harvesting.

Is this is a joke? What does this mean?

Linda

I take no issue with whatever system a country has in place to maintain order, that’s up to that country. You know that when you get there. I knew when I went to Abu Dhabi I better clothe up and keep my business to myself. I might not like it but I take no issue with this, there are dickheads everywhere. If I break their law I would accept the punishment. If I don’t like the punishments, I wouldn’t go there. And there’s a lot of places I would never dare step into for this reason.

But to remove a human beings body parts as punishment and then sell them (I assume) is complete and utter depravity. I actually don’t have the words to convey how this makes me feel as a human. Capital punishment would be better.

I fucking hate this world.

Linda

Neither.

And this is how I’ve ended up here in a way. I want a completely new world, from the ground up. I want to burn it all down. All of our existing institutions, governments, all of it, gone. I want people to wake up and realise how betrayed we’ve all been and I want people to be as angry as I am. I want the truth of everything to be exposed to everyone and I want to start again.

Writing comments on blogs is a good start. 😉

daegonmagus

it sucks to hear that your part of Oz is in the shambles. MMs account of what it is like dealing with the virus in China is actually quite similar to how it was dealt with here in WA. As soon as one person got the virus, everyone was alerted, and we went into immediate lockdown specifically so that person and any other potentials they came into contact with could be quarantined. The lockdown did not mean we were totally confined to our houses though; you could still go out to the shop, go to work, and do everyday basic things as long as you wore a mask, at best they lasted for a week, at worst maybe 2. And similar penalties for breaking quarantine – ok, maybe not potential life in a prison camp or having an organ harvested, but definite jail time for those who broke quarantine. We had a few dickhead footballers who thought they were immune to those laws and found out the hard way our premier wasn’t fucking around. Of course, that plan all changed when that backpacker came over with COVID and spread around, which included going to a lake less than a kilometre away from us which we went to the day after (don’t think we’ve got it though thankfully). Now that plan to open the borders in feb has been postponed

NewRob

WOW, MM! You have just the MOST clearly and objectively written article on China’s scoring system in the WORLD, up til today. No one has written it more illustratively and clearly. Congratulations telling it like it is.

Even tho, some of the things sound like a hassle, over 90plus percent of CHinese work with this AND SUPPORT having a scoring system – which has improved the lives of regular ppl a lot more – as it has given grief to A&&HOLES, lawbreakers, perennial criminals, debt flight deadbeats, and NASTY ppl. It’s a great society improvement tool that actually works, and everyone who is a natural, sane, good person in China supports it. Really! Anybody who goes against this, will not be arrested by the govt, they will be beaten senseless by 90plus percent of the good ppl of China who HATER mollycoddling CRIMINALS, antifa types, and ALL CHINESE support the death penalty for murderers.

ALL.

That’s why CHINA is the safest – per capita – large place country in the world.

REALLY. If anyone disagrees, GO TO CHINA and talk to real people there. Show them all the great things that are happening in the US: the incessant breakins, racist beatings and murders committed by öh-well, oppressed minorities, the harmonic sound of gunshots throughout the day, dodging flying bullets – whenever you need to, the drug supercrisis and all the shenanigans with that. Make sure you bring all that when you meet any Chinese and ask them, “Would you really want to live in China, when you can live in this beautiful exceptionally exceptional country, I am from? Let’s be honest. You live in a shithole with skycrapers tha are devoid of freedom and SOUL – while I represent exceptionalism.”

Yes, indeed, go to CHina and SHOW your exceptionalism to the “uninformed masses.”

I DARE YA! You will receive ENLIGHTENMENT, instantly…. Oh, BTW some links, how do these things happen in exceptional countries:

1) Democracy is ALWAYS THE BEST ANSWER! https://www.rt.com/news/546364-autocracies-more-trusted-than-democracies/
2) What do you need police for. Well, you will see that in China police officers are respected (although sometimes bozos forget that and get a couple of days in the “deep thinking and reflection retreat”) https://www.foxnews.com/us/record-police-officers-shot-killed-2021
3) Going for a run in the country is GREAT for health: https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/uknews/17378945/man-court-charged-murder-ashling-murphy-tullamore/
4) You wonder why help is hard to get: https://www.the-sun.com/news/4499697/philadelphia-woman-beaten-pipe-office-news/
5) When you go shopping, you wouldn’t want to see this happen to a BEAUTIFUL WOMAN: https://www.the-sun.com/news/4494523/brianna-kupfer-shawn-laval-smith-arrest/
6) Finally, the REAL FACT is whether the citizens trust their government. TBH, cant say Chinese trust 100%, but if you compare the US and China numbers, Chinese trust their government more. https://news.gallup.com/poll/355124/americans-trust-government-remains-low.aspx
7)Why do Chinese trust their govt more – and let us let a Chinese explain it: https://www.chinausfocus.com/society-culture/why-chinese-people-support-their-government#:~:text=According%20to%20the%20Edelman%20Global%20Trust%20Barometer%20Report%2C,U.S.%20government%20ranged%20from%2037%20to%2040%20percent.

I mean, guys, WTF is wrong with ppl hating China for its credit scoring system – when they have not been to China and talked to Chinese ppl about it? All the crimes you see in the exceptional countries above, DO NOT happen in China. It is not that it could never happen, bcos there are still crazy ppl around, but nowadays with the security system in place and the checks out there, Chinese ppl FEEL SAFE….

Talk to real Chinese ppl in China, if you really want to know the TRUTH!

Thanks, MM and others.

DSKlausler

Are they not very close to Predictive, or preemptive Punishment? Is their almighty AI infallible; incorruptible?

We have been conditioned to need, to want government… to seek and expect orders on how to live and with whom to interact.

I am not alone on this: I neither want nor need such overlords.

I am for SEVERE punishment though.

I do not need to be told what is right, and what is wrong.

 “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.” YMMV of course.

Ohio Guy

@congjingyu, glad you’re all green. Stay green bro. Happy CNY! OG

JustAnotherAsian

Wow, the efficiency of the whole system is astonishing.

Stay safe & healthy. Gong Xi Fa Cai.

Marc

So if the Chinese Government decided that they have too many people in the country and therefore developed an injection that is quite lethal everyone would just line up for the shot?

K-Man

In China, if you are required to quarantine at home for weeks on end, what happens if you need food or other supplies? How does that work? The first illustration above, which you say is out of context, says “doors blocked, supplies unavailable”, and many of us did see the videos and pictures of doors supposedly being welded shut on quarantined apartment buildings in China early last year.

Can you elaborate, MM? Thanks.

Sage1254

Almost on queue, when i think to ask a question, you address it before i can ask it. You have put out some great articles parricularly in the last week about and referenced others from the same sources i have read for years. There is no question, the west lost nov 22, 1963. Since that day and yes many build ups before that,13th 14th 15th reconstruction amendments to the creation of income tax laws and the federal reserve under president wilson, to the lies behind the worlds 1 and 2. The point on my little rant is, because i see the same things happening as you. What i found remarkable is yes, i see and have seen for years the crumbling of the west and the world is finished with the wests version of democracy, is ok i get it but what is the deal with the social credit score. Yes yes america spends 5 bil per year on antichina propaganda. Thank you for some insight into the social credit score. I was going to ask you. You posted before i could