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How cell phones of spring breakers who flouted coronavirus warnings were tracked
- hilbert42 7y agoAs noble a cause as this current phone tracking may be, I'll continue to do what I've always done long before the outbreak of the corona virus, which mostly is to not take my phone with me at all whilst I'm out and about. If for some reason I have to then I do so with it switched off and only switch it on if or when I need to make a call (nothing's that important that callers can't wait, and anyway they can leave messages). Frankly, I'm perplexed why people are so utterly obsessed with and hopelessly addicted to their mobile phones. Ask yourselves what you did before you had a mobile phone and you'll have to answer that you actually managed life quite well (or you wouldn't be here). So did the rest of the world. We built the world as we know it today mostly without fixed telephones—from ancient Egyptians to Rome to the American Empire, and during the 20th Century we had no trouble screwing the world up big-time by organizing two world wars with ruthless efficiency, the great depression and the Cold War and, at times, we even advanced the human condition—and we did all this without the aid of mobile phones let alone a smart ones. Of course, the obvious weakness in the 'Big-Brother' tracking everyone scheme—especially if there's a risk of heavy fines or sanctions for violators—is for everyone to just simply turn the damn things off before they leave home. Then, as with drink driving laws, the State will only catch and fine truly hardened addicts.