The way that china controls covet is high tech and low tech. There are guards everywhere checking what you're doing, but also this high tech aspect that you have to accept a lot of take surveillance. We've all been told to work from home in most of the city, including where i am. And on s Saturday, i think they said 16 million people had neucleic acid tests. So these kind of khios and cabins all over the streets with long lines of people waiting half an hour a day to get tested. It's not just like ustead of quick lateral ploa test. This is the proper swab down your throat ne nucleic acid test. I
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