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Originally Posted by Romulus
Interesting to see only 2.8 million people have signed up for the app, well short of the 40% of the population the PM and AG mentioned this morning. Well short indeed lol. The government thinks it may be necessary to waste a couple million of tax payers funds on a re-education, I mean indoctrination or reprogramming, I mean an advertising campaign to get more people to sign up for the app 
I saw this pop up on Facebook this evening.
In life.. you should always stop.. think.. have another think.. and think again...
To all the people who downloaded the coronavirus safe app...
so lets say you are within 1.5 meters of someone who has the corona virus... do you have any idea what you have just done ?
You have just given the Authorities jurisdiction to come and kick your front door in and drag your *** off to be quarantined...
They know who you are and where you are.. with your phone.. remember ?
That digital handshake is going to brew up trouble.
lol......
Imagine being a tradesman or self employed and the government has just forced you to give up your livelihood for 2 weeks based on a hunch you might have CV19.... |
Wow just wow.
So selfish and short sighted.
Those tradesmen and self employed rely upon the community being in gainful employment so that they have MONEY to spend on tradesmen/self employed people.
Try and stop and think and let this sink in.
We are all in this together. Everyone.
Pending a vaccine (18 months? never?) or controlling medication (timeframe???) our best bet to manage covid 19 WHILE also opening up Australia so that people will then have money to spend on those tradesmen and self employed is to do a multi approach of testing/distancing AND tracing which the COVIDSAFE app will be incredibly useful enabler.
Those people who have no employment or are very reliant on business opening up (like hospitality, self employed, tradesmen) or have limited cash reserves/mortgages and have work that has been put into hibernation- they are the ones who should be pushing the COVIDSAFE app and should be kissing the governments butts for being so proactive and rolling this out.
Personally I have never been busier in my life but my family and I have loaded this app. Because the personal privacy cost of my data being kept for 28 days showing what other phone I was in proximity for over 15 minutes is such small fry as to be laughable as compared to the benefits.
Its what a logical ethical person does to help society when that society is facing a Pandemic of 1 in 100 years.
And you laugh and white ant one of our best shots presently available that will enable our society to re-open business and get some sense of normality- while keeping covid 19 morbidity rates in control.
Wake up- Australia and the World is now in a very different reality to what we had 5 months ago- and it may be a long time for us to get back to some semblance of what it was like before Covid 19.
