'The health code should have been used to prevent the spread of the
*
*China's bank run victims planned to protest. Then their Covid
Another protest was planned for Monday. But as the depositors
Anyone with a red code -- usually assigned to people infected with
But when Liu scanned a local QR code to exit the Zhengzhou train
Covid or deemed by authorities to be at high risk of infection --immediately becomes /persona non grata./ They are banned from all
Default Re: China's TERRIFYING Social Credit System (it's already here)
Depositors accused Zhengzhou authorities of tampering with the
Dozens of depositors were taken into a quarantine hotel guarded by
From CNN (and many other blog pages, reported on 15 June):
He had tested negative for Covid-19 the day before; his hotel had
Henan -- in a case that involves billions of dollars. In late May,
Henan, and since April hasn't been able to withdraw a penny.
Liu, a 39-year-old tech worker in Beijing, arrived in the central
Over the past two months, thousands of depositors like Liu have been
Qiu, a teacher, had not been to Henan to protest, but his health
That all but derailed plans for Liu, who had come to Zhengzhou, the
The red code seems to target only depositors. Qiu used his wife's
Zhengzhou QR code on the WeChat messaging app, in an attempt to find
a color-code system imposed by the government to control the spread
a protest outside the office of the Henan banking regulator to
according to six who spoke with CNN and social media posts.
according to the witnesses and online posts.
app was green -- meaning he had not been exposed to people or places
arrived in Zhengzhou, they were stunned to find that their health
beautifully with their social credit system.
called the government hotline in Zhengzhou to complain about my red
city of Zhengzhou on Sunday with all the boxes ticked to travel
code also turned red on Sunday evening after he scanned a QR code
code, and they told me there was some error with the Big Data
codes -- which were green upon departure -- had turned red,
confirmed he could be checked in; and the health code on his phone
deemed risks and was therefore free to travel.
demand their money back -- to no avail.
eastern Jiangsu province.
fighting to recover their savings from at least four rural banks in
for their hometowns the next day; others were 'quarantined' at
from Zhengzhou. He said a fellow depositor had shared a photo of the
government quarantine.
health code system to prevent them from returning to the city -- and
health codes turned red*
https://cnn.com/2022/06/15/china/chi...hnk/index.html
hundreds of them traveled to Zhengzhou from across China and staged
information database.'
of the virus.
out whether depositors outside Henan were also affected.
pandemic, but now it has deviated from its original role and become
phone to scan the QR code, and it came back green, he said. 'I
police and local officials, before being sent away on trains bound
provincial capital of Henan province, to seek redress from a bank
public venues and transport, and are often subject to weeks of
several other locations in the city, including a college campus,
something like a good citizen certificate,' said Qiu, a depositor in
station, his health code came back red -- a nightmare for any
that has frozen his deposits. He had put his life savings --totaling about 6 million yuan ($890,000) -- into a rural bank in
thus thwarting their plans to fend for their rights.
traveler in China, where freedom of movement is strictly dictated by
under China's stringent Covid restrictions. The real reason for China's covid zero tolerance, which works
