The employees of Apple-partner Guizhou Cloud Big Data have not been able to see their families in a week because of a city-wide curfew.
Workers are currently living at their workplace because of the closed loop system which means that they can't leave. It is not clear when the lockdown will be lifted or when the workers will be able to visit their families.
Guizhou Cloud Big Data said in a social media post that they needed brave people on the front lines.
All Apple user data, including photos, videos, and documents, is housed in the datacenter. Chinese law requires all data on Chinese users to be held on Chinese soil, and Apple was required to contract with Cloud Big Data in order to comply.
In order to get tested for covid-19, residents in most of Guiyang have been banned from leaving their homes. Early Thursday, Apple didn't respond to the questions that were sent to them.
There were no new deaths or new cases of covid-19 in China on Thursday. Chinese state media trumpeted Thursday's numbers as 241 new cases, which are the cases that meet the criteria of local transmission and symptom. The data is still available but Beijing has avoided counting cases that aren't life threatening. The number of cases that were not found in the report was 1, 159 on Thursday.
According to the New York Times, over 144,000 new covid-19 cases were reported in the U.S. The number of people in the United States is just 330 million.
China has been criticized for using brutal tactics to stop the spread of covid-19. China won't be getting any awards for human rights, but its approach has been effective at keeping its population protected from the virus. China recently surpassed the U.S. in life expectancy, a metric that has never been done before. The U.S. life expectancy has fallen while China has risen.
Western countries are more free and sick. It looks like that could continue for a long time.
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