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May 5, 2020 70 mins

The thirtheeth episode of CURSED WITH GOOD IDEAS, seventy minutes of inescapable lockdown chronicles with Andrew Holtz, Dino Chang, Gabriele de Seta, Joy Zhu and Marianne von Blomberg.

In this episode: Epidemiology 101, social credit system, health QR codes, and empty airports.

Echoes and ghostly crackles kindly offered by smartphone microphones.

LINKS: - COVID-19 spikes in Hong Kong, Singapore & Taiwan: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/04/09/world/asia/coronavirus-hong-kong-singapore-taiwan.html - Alibaba's Hangzhou Health Code: https://technode.com/2020/04/07/china-voices-how-alibaba-built-chinas-health-code/ - Andrew Holtz's blog: https://medium.com/@andrew.holtz94 - Marianne von Blomberg on the social credit score: https://mappingchina.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/MCJ-No-2-2018-Blomberg.pdf

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