Hard selling (aggressive salesmanship or advertising) of "smart cities" aka open air prisons.Nature
Last December, the Chinese city of Wuhan signed an agreement with the communications giant Huawei to install infrastructure to enhance its security and information services and convert it into a ‘smart city’.
Could the increased presence of 5 G infrastructure had an effect on the health and well being of the Wuhan residents?
The agreement also incorporates mechanisms for swift emergency responses, which could, in principle, help in containing the city’s epidemic of the coronavirus disease COVID-19 (see go.nature.com/2uczxpm).
Other cities might consider adopting similar measures for the timely prevention and control of infectious-disease outbreaks.
Well these measures "could" help? They also could not! And lets be realistic, these control measures won't make an iota of difference because of the way a virus spreads- some people simply being carriers.. Which means the smart infrastructure that would spy on you 24/7 would be equally late in "deciphering" any changes in the spied upon population.
Smart cities’ powerful big-data ecosystems alert the authorities to abnormal changes — for example, in population mobility and vehicle flows — in real time. Data on public emergencies can also be shared with adjacent cities or countries. Models for managing crises associated with disease transmission, air pollution, flooding or sewage discharge, for example, could be embedded in the city ecosystems in advance so that they can be controlled more effectively.
Turns Out North has posted yet more relevant information:
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It is believed that the real government ambition behind this appalling act of ecocide is to pave the way for the establishment of a super-sized control grid, construction of 5G microwave powered ‘smart cities’ and a new high speed railway link between capital cities. All recognised Agenda 2030/Green New Deal ambitions.