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Normally I care more about privacy than other people, and for a lot of illnesses I'd find this more than understandable, but for this pandemic, I don't understa
by mehrdadn 6y ago
Normally I care more about privacy than other people, and for a lot of illnesses I'd find this more than understandable, but for this pandemic, I don't understand your sentiment. Not only has it already infected over 74M people and killed 1.5M of them (and counting...) from all walks of society (hardly making you unique!), but by sharing 1 bit of information about yourself, you can help others avoid that fate. What exactly is so scary about the FDA knowing if you had COVID that terrifies you and trumps (no pun intended) everything else?
- tboyd47 6y agoIt seems to me that the point of mandatory reporting is to impose quarantining by force on people who wouldn't otherwise have done it. But if the test itself is not mandatory, then it defeats the purpose. i.e. If I have the choice between taking the test or not, and I know the test is going to report me if my result is positive, leading to consequences I see as negative, then I can just choose not to take the test. If I see the consequences of a positive test (quarantine, isolation, etc.) as necessary then I would just do it voluntarily and the government wouldn't need to step in.
- TheAceOfHearts 6y agoIf it was consensual I wouldn't have an issue with it. The fact that I'm not being given a choice means I'll just avoid taking the test. Consent matters.
- mehrdadn 6y agoI mean... you understand why it's not consensual here, right? It's not because they're trying to use your data for marketing purposes, it's because they need it to address public health. When you send your kids to school (if you have any, or hypothetically) and they ask for the immunization records, do you refuse to tell them and decide to home-school instead, because you don't like mandatory things? Does the context not matter at all?