China erasing Covid data?

[LBDamned]

^^^ liar.

[TrappedinCalifornia]

A year ago... Chinese city claims to have destroyed 1 billion pieces of personal data collected for Covid control

...Kendra Schaefer, the head of tech policy research at the Beijing-based consultancy Trivium China, said the data collection related to local-level Covid apps was often messy, and those apps were difficult and expensive to manage for local governments.

"Considering the cost and difficulty managing such apps, coupled with concerns expressed by the public over data security and privacy - not to mention the political win local governments get by symbolically putting zero-Covid to bed - dismantling those systems is par for the course," Schaefer said.

In many cases, she added, the big data departments at local governments were overwhelmed dealing with Covid data, so scaling back simply makes sense economically.

"Many cities have not yet deleted their Covid data - or have not done so publicly - not because I believe they intend to keep it, but because it simply hasn?t been that long since zero-Covid was halted," Schaefer said.

China Moves to Erase the Vestiges of 'Zero Covid' to Deter Dissent

This is how China's ruling Communist Party wants people to remember how it handled the Covid-19 pandemic: It was a "miracle in human history." Every measure the government imposed was rooted in science, supported by the masses - and, ultimately, "completely correct."

The party is waging an ambitious propaganda campaign to rewrite the public's memory of "zero Covid," a signature policy of China's leader, Xi Jinping, that helped contain the virus for almost three years - but went to such extreme lengths that it smothered the economy and set off widespread opposition. In a decree that was published after a recent meeting of top officials and championed by a barrage of state media editorials, a newly triumphant narrative has emerged, aimed at bolstering Mr. Xi's authority and deterring dissent...

China has long used censorship and propaganda to shape consequential moments in history that challenged the Communist Party's legitimacy, a recurring exercise in state-sponsored amnesia. In recent months, officials have been quietly arresting and detaining several people who had participated in the nationwide protests last November against "zero Covid," the biggest challenge to the country's authoritarian leadership since the pro-democracy protests in Tiananmen Square in 1989...

Mr. Liu, in Guangzhou, said he was eager to stop masking and to travel again. But he said he did not want the memory of the last three years - from the draconian restrictions to the widespread protests - to be erased.

"As long as there are people who can remember the suffering and absurdities of the past three years," he said, "then we can fight against society forgetting."

Again, that was a year ago.

Haven't we heard similar things being attempted here in the U.S.?

Must've been misinformation.