Immunity Jealousy Is Coming

If immunity = freedom, that’s likely to induce envy

Markham Heid
Elemental
Published in
7 min readMay 20, 2020

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An illustration of a person about to fly away on a hot air balloon but others are pulling it down amongst a bed of covid.
Illustration: Virginia Gabrielli

In an effort to stop the spread of Covid-19, the Chinese government earlier this year instituted an app-based smartphone program that continues to govern the movement of many of its citizens.

Each person’s phone displays a colored QR code. A green code means that a person is permitted to take public…

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Markham Heid
Elemental

I’m a long-time contributor at TIME and other media orgs. I write mostly about health. I grew up in Michigan, but these days I live in southwest Germany.