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This actually already happened today (timezones, how do they work?)
I’m in Shanghai right now, AMA.
How will they report your results to you and did they say what will happen if you test positive?
Not shthrow, but can answer your question.
You fill your personal info into an web app and it generates a QR code. The code is scanned during testing. Results can be viewed on the app.
No official words on what happens to people who have tested positive. The policy seems to be changing all the time. It used mandatory quarantine in hospital/quarantine center but I’ve been hearing about asymptomatic cases quarantined at home(Not sure if true or not). What is certain is additional lockdown and testing for a certain radius around you. (Used to include contact tracing, but the city’s been on lockdown for half a month there really isn’t any movement to be traced now)
That makes sense. But once this is done is there a general expectation things will open up again? Like this is happening in place of continuing lockdowns?
I got my results via one of the centralized apps.
As far as I know, if you test positive right now, you’ll be taken to a big quarantine center where you’ll stay until you can test negative twice. Like AlyxMS said, the policies are all over the place - I also heard talk about letting asymptomatic cases being allowed to quarantine at home but since then all the talk has been about the big centralized quarantine halls.
If you’re interested, there was a foreign journalist called Emma Leaning I think who tested positive and was tweeting about her experience in centralized quarantine.
Is everyone pissed off that this is happening, being imposed upon by an authoritarian government and running out of food and such, as western news media is reporting?
Depends, and honestly hard to get a really broad picture of what everyone’s feeling.
Everyone in urban China lives in a ‘community’ organized by local government. Some are good at their jobs and some are bad. In communities like mine where testing has been very well organized and we’ve been provided with good food rations, everyone seems pretty mellow, but I’ve heard of some discontent in communities where food provisions have been bad or non-existent (by discontent, I mean old people complaining at the management in the community, haven’t seen or heard of any real protests that have been suggesting in the media).
I think everyone’s a little irritated at the Shanghai government as a whole for preparing poorly and responding slowly, but Beijing’s taking over the response now so hopefully it’ll be resolved quickly.
If they say anything other than black bean Lao Gan Ma I’m becoming a neoliberal.
Not shthrow.
Not sure if this is the case everywhere since testing is partially organized by your local community. For me a temporary testing site is setup in the community/compound and households are tested in batches to avoid crowding.
By law yes. But gig workers(I.E. Taxi driver, food delivery or just delivery in general) are losing most of their income since they can’t work.
The classic one with beans and oil. Supposedly there should be minced beef in it but I can never taste any.
