Slippery slope if you are ever deemed an "enemy of the state"....for whatever reason.
You stood next to so and so and now you have to be tested.
But I wasn't even at that location on that date..
Doesn't matter, our records are infallible. you WILL be escorted to the testing facility.
Surprise!!! You have it!!!
Now you have to be quarantined in a FEMA camp.
And eventually you will have to be injected with the vaccine.
Oh did you just volunteer to be a test subject?
No!!!
Take him away!!!
He's not wrong that this is a possibility.
I have a feeling you don't understand how this contact tracing works. There is no GPS involved. Your contacts are tracked by your phone sending out a code via bluetooth. that code is picked up by other phones within a small radius of you and stored there. Your phone is also picking up codes from other phones at the same time and storing those codes. All the codes are anonymous. No user data is attached and all codes are stored locally on the phones. Once someone who has the app tests positive, only then does that person inform the app and the codes it has stored from the last two weeks are then uploaded to a server. Meanwhile all the apps on the other phones check that server regularly for the codes it has been transmitting. If it finds one of it's codes it informs the user. It is completely anonymous. Also completely voluntary.
That's funny. Even when my company says "this survey is completely anonymous", they still make you enter a code to take the survey. "It's so people can't take the survey multiple times", or "to follow up if somebody issues a threat in the comments", they insist.
Okay, fine. But the only way to guarantee that your tracking is accurate is to .. um.. track each person.
Seriously insane paranoid uninformed post. If it is satire, well done. If not, get help.
His or her concern is valid. Please stop trying to shut down discussion by accusing the commenter(s) of mental illness. Yeah, that's how I see it. Rather than disagree, you accused. So I am left to wonder, are you trying to change hearts and minds, or do you really have something else in mind?
The whole thing should have been national, but our executive branch is incompetent and wants to divorce itself from responsibility. So they left it to the states to handle. Now we have a mish mash of different guidelines and reporting. It's been a mess from day one.
Everybody wants a national solution for everything. But what if they screw it up at the national level? Then EVERYBODY gets an equal dose of mediocrity. Well, at least it's consistent, right? /sarc
I prefer to let the well-run states have a chance to excel. States can collaborate. Maybe then some states will create a better system, and (OH MY GOD) enter into an agreement to sell or barter with other states to share the solution.
Why must we always wait for mommy and daddy (the Federal Government) before we attempt to tackle a problem?
Give entrepreneurials a chance!
Oh, we are perfectly clear that you are someone who supports health tracking and government-issues apps to do so. You even seem to think Apple should force this system on everyone, default opt-in.
I'm not reading a damn thing from Google. They've proven to be an absolutely invasive and creepy company with data collection. They get no free pass on this, nor any respect or trust in asking to please let them monitor your movements in regards to your health. The very fact that you would even consider trusting them in this instance, is bewildering.
I agree with you. Nobody should force it, and haha, I don't believe Google much either.
Once again, if the government wants to spy on you, or, track you, they don't need one more app. They can do it now....
You're right, they can do it now.
But at least in part, my resistance here is out of concern that this would be just ONE MORE THING that the government can (and WILL) enthusiastically use to justify the removal of even more of our freedoms and liberties.
Yes, they can track me now, and I'm sure they already do because I have at least one bank account, I have a 401k, and some IRAs, I vote, I am in the 45% who actually pay taxes each year by writing a check, I'm registered as a voter but I'm a big sinner because I'm not a member of the bureaucratically-favored (Democrat) party, I write to my politicians about the 2nd amendment, our Bill of Rights, and my concern about the national debt, and I use a VPN.
I
don't consent to forced-contact tracing in any form. I don't trust the Feds to use such power with care, and I certainly won't be fooled into thinking that they'll preserve my rights in their mad grab for more power.
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