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Story circulating on Chinese Internet:

- Foxconn workers have to walk on highways for hundreds of miles with their luggage to go back home

- Villagers nearby set up free food and water distribution stalls en route

- Some scoundrels steal all the food and water

- The thief are forcibly sent to quarantine because they are now classified as close contacts to COVID positives

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> - Foxconn workers have to walk on highways for hundreds of miles with their luggage to go back home

For anyone wondering why: It it because they are labeled as COVID close contact by health code system, so they cannot take public transport system even they have enough money.

This sounds vaguely like Gattaca.

how is protecting others from a still-deadly pandemic anything remotely like genetic-engineering of Uebermensch and social stratification? people aren't shunned for life because they got coronavirus, they are quarantined until they test negative again

Gattaca was protecting innocent children from inheriting inferior genes. Coronavirus 99.99% of children recover, but bad genes are 100% for life!

Similar to what happened to migrant workers in India during Initial lockdown. Many had to walk thousands of kms to reach their hometowns.

In India's case it was logistics issue. Initial decision was to keep migrant workers in place and provide them with daily necessities free. Some state govts didn't play ball and cut off electricity and rations. After that it took some time for central and various state govts to run special trains to the people. And it's not thousands of kms, 10s of kms.

I have seen people walking from Delhi to Bihar, not exactly 10 Km.

Curious how you saw them walk. Are you rephrasing what you saw mentioned in news?

Walking thousands of kms would indeed take a very long time!

But someone within 10km of home is scarcely a 'migrant worker' - you could start in south Mumbai, walk 30km north, and still be in Mumbai :)

Great information. Sad labor life.

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