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I could imagine a situation where some private events or businesses require you to have a contact tracing app installed in order to go inside. Not sure if that
by GhostVII 7y ago
I could imagine a situation where some private events or businesses require you to have a contact tracing app installed in order to go inside. Not sure if that would neccesarily be a good thing (we certainly wouldn't want essential businesses having that requirement), but it could be a reasonable requirement for things like music festivals or something.
- mandelbrotwurst 7y agoYeah, the end of this article made me realize that the people pushing this stuff are going to do it via social pressure around "non-essential" activity - i.e. so, you want to go to a nightclub, but you're not willing to sacrifice a little bit of privacy for the greater good?
- zaroth 7y agoThe mobilization (you could say weaponization) of social pressure campaigns has been, by far, the most impressive thing I’ve observed throughout this entire saga. I don’t mean “impressive” in a good way, but that’s in the eye of the beholder.
- walterbell 7y agoHave you seen "Turn" on Netflix? There was a similar civil-war dynamic in that series as social pressure was mobilized, dividing friends and families. If this keeps up, it could trigger economic migration. Sweden shows a very similar curve to places that shutdown. Some of their rates are higher as expected, since they are time-shifting contagion. But neither their healthcare nor economy has been devastated to the extent of neighbors. The volume and velocity of opportunism in this crisis has been a sight to behold. It will take years to catalog what happened and develop a societal immune system to the large-scale manipulation of entire populations with dubious models and data.