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Yikes, this is prep for big brother's guilt by association. I wouldn't want to test positive for anything the state can track (radical ideas? you're now a posit

• DagAgren 7y ago
  Or, it's just what it says. It's a way to implement test and trace, something that is absolutely needed to stop a pandemic like this from killing hundreds of thousands if not millions of people. Everything isn't a slippy slope. Everything isn't about your privacy. Everything isn't a grand conspiracy that only you can see and the sheeple are too dumb to understand. Sometimes, extreme measures are needed.
  • grumple 7y ago
    > Everything isn't a slippy slope. Everything isn't about your privacy. Everything isn't a grand conspiracy that only you can see and the sheeple are too dumb to understand. Crises are often used by despots to seize power. That's not a conspiracy, that's historical fact. In the United States, we've seen it recently - 9/11 was used to degrade our rights across a large number of issues, and we've never gotten them back. Implementing systems to track everyone people come into contact with is absolutely a huge invasion of privacy, and obviously not necessary. > Sometimes, extreme measures are needed. Extreme times do not justify all extreme measures. Every time you lose rights or privacy, assume it's permanent. Our government is not suited for repealing law.
    • DagAgren 7y ago
      Crises are far, far more often NOT used by despots to seize power.