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Contact Tracing sounds like an Orwellian nightmare.
by nickthemagicman 5y ago
Contact Tracing sounds like an Orwellian nightmare.
- another_story 5y agoContact tracing is looking for people that came in contact with infected individuals. When a coworker gets covid they investigate where they went and who they came in contact with so that person can get tested. Not sure how that is Orwellian. What people would consider Orwellian is the app you can use to scan in at places. That's voluntary, but almost everyone uses it and you still have to sign in on paper if you don't. Personally, I don't mind. We all carry around GPS tracking devices every day, and it's silly to think that governments can't already track those. Even with GPS off you can be tracked if hitting wifi or different cell towers.
- kQq9oHeAz6wLLS 5y agoHonestly, it all sounds like an Orwellian nightmare
- nickthemagicman 5y agoGood point. Phew. Slowly being normalized.
- kybernetikos 5y agoActually in terms of Orwellian nightmares, normalizing mask wearing in public is an incredibly significant blow you can strike against the surveillance state.
- nickthemagicman 5y agoSo comply with the government in order to get our freedoms? Makes sense....
- kQq9oHeAz6wLLS 5y agoI mean, on the one hand, you're not wrong. I suppose one "solution" is one of those fake masks that looks real, but does nothing. Technically compliant with the letter of the law, but still striking a blow, with the bonus of hiding your face.
- SideburnsOfDoom 5y ago> Contact Tracing sounds like an Orwellian nightmare George Orwell, who actually died of an infectious disease ( Tuberculosis ), being recruited posthumously to the "lets spread disease without restraint" brigade is quite low.
- nickthemagicman 5y agoDon't understand how him dying of TB invalidates his ideas.
- op00to 5y agoIt’s been done for at least a hundred years, well before Orwell. Nice try though.
- nickthemagicman 5y agoNot with this level of technology and with this big of scale. Come to think of it when has contact tracing been done before?
- op00to 5y agoAll communicable diseases (measles, etc) in western countries, especially starting with smallpox eradication in the 1950s. Look it up!