... Google and Apple and Facebook and Huawei and ...
Err, why do we need a virus tracking system on our phones? At worst, this epidemic will be over in a year when we will have a vaccine. In any case, at 60,000 deaths, it's about as lethal as traffic accidents for this year only. After that, with a vaccine, it will be a blip in our mortality statistics.
It seems to me like we need a national tracking system because the tech giants have always wanted one.
And how about those virus immunity certificates? That at least makes sense. You could make them part of a national ID card. You could use that card for voting. Ooh, but that would be racist because evil racist people would use them for voter suppression, particularly against blacks.
One question.
Since Democrats run all of the large, black communities, has anyone ever asked them why they plan to engage in voter suppression if we start using national ID cards?
Nah. Of course not. Oh well.
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Err, why do we need a virus tracking system on our phones?
Because a lot of our fancy-themselves-betters have a (((lewd metaphor of strong reaction of desire))) over the idea of copying China.
You know, the place where they quarantined people by welding the family's door shut. In multiple different places.
China requires folks to have a phone, which is connected to their real identity and bank accounts, and you can't do anything without them.
Which is of interest because between the famine, the "civil unrest" and multiple disease outbreaks, there are over twenty million cellphones in China that were "not renewed."
First, where we agree... I am all in on a national ID to vote. We basically have to have Social Security Numbers. Same for a driver’s licenses that conform to the national standards to fly. Lots of people have passports. To go to school you need to have vaccines, and present the card when you register the child for school. So a national ID is completely sensible. Having all that data on one “card” is a little terrifying, but I have slowly become accustomed to not really having any real privacy on all sorts of issues in this day of big data and everything be internet connected.
Now, where we don’t... “In any case, at 60,000 deaths, it's about as lethal as traffic accidents for this year only”. This year is *Not* over. I am hearing all sorts of folks talking about ‘opening the country/state/city back up”. No. NO. NO! Even with the biggest number I can possibly justify using for the actual number of cases versus the number of confirmed cases (which comes from some almost anecdotal data from Chicago, which works out about 190:1), we will have about half of our population still unifected. And it won’t be uniformly scattered. The big cities have been hit fairly hard, and may have higher than 50% immunity, while other less dense populations won’t. But it still means that if we just open up there will be another explosion of cases, and the death total will be like another 60,000 (unless the treatments markedly improve).
We have to, absolutely Have To, not waste this disruption by stepping away too soon. My guess is at least another month. Two wouldn’t be absurd. And frankly, as an over 60, with underlying conditions, I will have to play it safe and try to social distance, and minimize my contact with, well everybody.
I have been wondering why every area has to follow the same play card as overpopulated cities like NY and LA. We here in MN apparently are doing better than most in physical distancing, probably mostly because we want to be left alone anyway. But locking down the state like it is the middle of Chicago. I don't think we are ready open up completely, but the politicians are getting a taste for their unchecked power.
Ohioan, you make a good point. All the more reason to start an ID card system which will let people get back to work.
We still don't want a tracking system. I'll take increased risks over Big Brother.
KT,
"I'll take increased risks over Big Brother."
Amen!
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