Posted on 05/09/2020 3:50:21 AM PDT by Libloather
Before the pandemic, the plan would have seemed like something ripped from a distant dystopian future in which the human race fully surrenders to Big Tech. On the April 10 online document, the logos of Google and Apple sat atop a description of the companies' joint plan to enable America's cellphones to keep track of everyone with whom their owners come into contact.
Who would sign on to such extensive surveillance? Much of the world already has. In South Korea, health officials use apps and video cameras to track down people who came into contact with COVID-19 patients before symptoms appeared. China, Singapore and Australia already have phone-based contact-tracing in place, and much of Europe is following suit. The UK's National Health Service, for instance, has endorsed a scheme that's undergoing a pilot test, and Germany's government is close behind.
As U.S. governors consider how to open up and allow people to go back to work, experts warn that the coronavirus, which is still in circulation, is almost certain to flare up again. To avoid more emergency-room disasters like the one that overwhelmed New York City in April, public-health officials must act aggressively to stop small outbreaks before they develop into big ones. The key, experts say, is contact tracing. For each new COVID-19 case, health care workers would develop a list of people the patient might have interacted with before symptoms developed. Then they would contact each one and recommend self-quarantine.
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Just reopen and FO to the government.
What a bunch of idiots, the gubmint are not experts. Just stop the stupid. Quarantine the sick, not the healthy.
Smart phones are tracking devices already so nothing would change ....
Yes, I’d just leave the phone on the table at home.
Sure. It will be sitting on my kitchen counter all the time, like it is now.
No!
The government is we the people. Why would we track each other? Certainly not at the behest of over zealous representatives....maybe we should all be tracking them.
Newsweak just wants to use the results of this idiotic question to say, “See?! People still want the shutdown to continue!!” They know already what most people will say. at least we now know that Newsweak is in favor of government oversight on the people, right Comrade?...
Yep.
Yes. But I would immediately wrap it in plastic and toss it into the back of the first government-owned truck I see. Then I’d get a new one.
No.
Would You Let The Government Track Your Smartphone If It Meant We Could Reopen Sooner?>>>>>
The socialist commie ba$tards won’t give up, will they.
First the left abuses FISA, spies illegally on Americans and now the same idiots want to be able to gather tracking datat on everyone. Ands then in a few months liberal fascist crook Adam Schiff and Co. contrive a way to impugn the freedom of assembly of Republicans before the election , saying they were Wuhan virus carriers?
F**K THEM!
Invalid equation. Tracking MY smartphone does not equate to reopening the country sooner. Tracking everyone’s smartphone is what they meant, but didn’t say.
Tracking is already taking place.
Five minutes of thought will show how the lastest demand by the MSM, contract tracing, is an impossibility. (Ex. An infected person walks up a public stairwell holding the railing. Or the same person opens the door to a pubic building. They are followed by dozens or hundreds of others in the same hour, some of whom are also potentially infected.)
The real purpose is tracking individuals. Think of your smart phone as the equivalent to a GPS ankle bracelet, now available to the surveillance state. No court orders. No warrants. Just the sort of power the State dictators sould never have.
Hear hear - I can go out without big brother governments permission.
The government has no right to force us all into house arrest because it presumes we’re all guilty of being infected WITHOUT TESTING let alone that it hasn’t even affected 1% of the population!
Oh hell no.
last time I checked, only about 15-20 percent of Singaporeans had downloaded the app (probably less turn the app on).
in Australia the govt says it won’t work unless they get 40 percent on board. they are nowhere near that, as yet. people are being hounded to sign on but, apparently, it isn’t easy to delete. if people weren’t being rushed, they would be even more suspicious.
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