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the olympic personnel and media arriving into beijing. it has a wall up that keeps the general population away from everyone who is part of the olympic arrivals. those coming in are required to down load this official app to monitor their health, inputting their information starting 14 days before arriving in beijing. while health surveillance and strict contact tracing is part of life for everyone living in china, it s making visitors uneasy. cyber security researchers warn the app has serious encryption flaws, potentially compromising personal health data. china dismisses concerns but team u.s.a. and athletes from other countries are being advised to bring disposable, burner phones instead of their personal ones. from the airport, athletes and personnel will be taken into what organizers call the closed loop system. not one giant bubble so much as multiple bubbles connected by dedicated shuttles. within the capital city, there are several hotels and venues plus the olympic village th
olympics allows china to show case its perceived superiority in containing the virus especially when compared with countries like the u.s., but this will in many ways also be a tale of two cities. one curated for the olympic arrivals and preselected groups of spectators, another that is the real beijing. though some local beijing residents are now in a bubble of their own. communities locked down after recent cases surfaced in the city outside the olympic boundaries. a mounting challenge for a country that s trying to keep covid out and yet still stage a global sporting spectacle to wow the world. that really is the biggest challenge, jake. this is hard to portray an open, welcoming host city but the object of barriers throughout the city say otherwise. locals can tell you they are happy to keep their distances specially with officials claiming recent cases here are imported. it adds to the fear that anyone coming in from outside china
are only for credentialed participants. the dedicated transport buses will be bringing the athletes, personnel, media through these gaetz. but for those of us who are residents outside, this is as close as we can get. then there are the mountain venues. on the outskirts of beijing. connected by high speed train and highways all of them newly built for the winter games. so as to maintain the separation, even the rail cars are divided. and the closed loop buses given specially marked lanes. it is so strict that officials have told residents if they see one of the vehicles that is part of the olympic convoys get into a crash, to stay away. they ve actually got a specialized unit of medics to respond to those incidents. it s all to keep the virus from potentially spreading. it also helps keep visiting journalists from leaving the capital city to other regions like tibet to explore controversial topics. with the world s attention, the
the sleep number 360 smart bed is on sale now. only from sleep number. welcome to the lead. this hour an olympic fortress, taking a close look at how china is trying to keep thousands of elite athletes free from covid in one of the most densely populated cities in the entire world. plus, building back in pieces. president biden says he is willing to break up his massive $1.8 trillion build back better bill into smaller chunks. are progressives onboard? we ll ask the chair of the house progressive caucus. and leading this hour, that s not what he meant. the white house and the president himself trying to clean up comments yesterday in which he appeared to give russian president vladimir putin the green light after what biden called a, quote, minor incursion into ukraine. the president clarifying today or attempting to do so, saying