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There was a disturbing trend that popped up on ABC’s World News Tonight and CNN’s Coronavirus town hall, hosted by Anderson Cooper and Dr. Sanjay Gupta on Thursday. Both ABC and Cooper marveled in amazement at the mobilization communist China’s mass surveillance state to track their citizens and monitor for their coronavirus. Cooper seemed to go slack-jawed after hearing about a required tracking app and called it “incredible.”
Cooper and Gupta were speaking with reporter David Culver, who was in Shanghai and explain to them how he didn’t realize that Chinese officials were forcing him to get the app. Before Culver explained how the app was needed to go basically everywhere, Cooper briefly noted it was “incredibly detailed and personal and invasive.”
Some might argue that the coronavirus test, which required a long cotton swab to be inserted into the nose to swab the top of the throat, was invasive. The term seemed inadequate in terms of China’s spying.
“Incredibly invasive. I don't know if it can happen in other parts of the world,” Culver told them. Cooper’s response was to call it “Incredible” and ask Culver if he was tested and if the app took that into consideration. Culver explained that it’s used to track people who may have come into contact with someone who was infected.
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