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The city that never slips: Beijing and covid

The Intelligence from The Economist

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China's Covet

The way that china controls covid is high tech and low tech. There are guards everywhere checking what you're doing, but also a lot of high tech surveillance. We've all been told to work from home in most of the city, including where i am. I'm here with my two cats, olley and charley. And that's a worry too, because if i get quarantined, taken off somewhere itis, some oneg gen abiut to feed themad,. they're oing to starve to death. But that is still a contrast with shanghai, where people are, in principle, supposed to move around at all. That's right.

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