BAD idea. This will just ramp-up the fear and panic.
A person ID’s by their phone as a carrier will be set upon and beaten by numbskulls.
Why not just print a scarlet V on their forehead?
Need to make an “RoP Tracking App” - So British subjects can avoid the accidental triggering of lone-wolf terrorists and not offend them/have their heads chopped off.
People are going to think twice about rushing to get tested. Given the pervasiveness and permanence of any data collected by the government, you just might not want to be known as someone who becomes infected even if you had a “mild” illness and recovered. Think about it. Would you want to work next to someone who had the virus? How do you know if that person is still “shedding” and infectious to others? Do you really trust the government not to abuse the data it collects or to shield it from hackers?
Or put another way. Would not invest in the NYC real estate market or invest in companies that service the NYC tourist industry.
Who in their right mind wants to live in or visit densely populated areas?
Now our cell phones are going to become our jailers.
If one is symptomatic and positive, I'd expect them to either be home in bed or in a hospital, not jogging along the Thames. If they've recovered enough to go out for a run, I wouldn't be too worried.
This could be one of the dumbest ideas they've had since the Restoration of the Monarchy in 1660.
there must be a way to augment radical muslim terrorist cells eliminate each other lurking somewhere in this scheme...
It’d be cheaper to make them wear gold stars.
NSA can probably tell who has been within ten feet of you just from the metadata on your and their cellphone location data. (With the assumption you carry your cellphone everywhere...)Bring Out Your Dead
Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.
The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.
The false positive rate was 100%.
At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.
*sigh* Such is life, and death...
If a quarantine saves just one child's or one old fart’s life, it's worth it.
I sincerely hope they don’t try this in the US. I’d be tempted to buy a RF-proof carry wallet for my cell phone. Yeah, you couldn’t contact me directly but you could leave me a voice mail.
We already have it. Its called Google Maps and Facebook App.
The Social Star Chambers know everyones contacts, with dates, times, gps locations and frequency.
If you are silly enough to let them track you. And maybe they are following along like a movie since they were notified of covid-19’s release. Or they informed the lab to begin the plan.
Talk about the opportunity for the ultimate swatting revenge.