SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Health investigator Mackenzie Bray smiles and chuckles as she chats by phone with a retired Utah man who just tested positive for the coronavirus.
She’s trying to keep the mood light because she needs to find out where he’s been and who he’s been around for the past seven days. She gently peppers him with questions, including where he and his wife stopped to buy flowers on a visit to a cemetery. She encourages him to go through his bank statement to see if it reminds him of any store visits he made.
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They forgot quite a few Stasi (East German Secret police) NKVD Stalin's secret police precursor to the KGB. Just to name two. These people can eat shit and die before I give them ANY information.
ReplyDeleteThat would be justified for a truly bad disease. Something like smallpox, for example, or a new form of ebola that spreads like the flu or coronavirus.
ReplyDeleteNo Larry, nothing would ever justify this shit. Not even the literal end of the world.
DeleteThis is what I’m hearing on the radio here in Michigan...
ReplyDeleteCould this shit get anymore Orwellian? That’s a rhetorical question!!
Do the radio station know when you turn off your radio? Not rhetorical!
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Drew in Michigan
Generally, no. Standard radios are one-way receivers. Listener statistics are generated by surveys and portable meters, so those surveyed have to choose to opt-in to being tracked. But things are changing rapidly, as more radio is listened to over the web, and as more new radios become IoT connected devices.
DeleteBasically, anything done (including listening) through any kind of connected device has the potential to be tracked over the internet. But if the radio isn't ever connected to the net, then no.
From Michigan radio stations,
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Ugh crazy shit up here!
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Drew in Michigan
And if we all had chips it would make public health's job so much easier, wouldn't that be good boys and girls?
ReplyDeleteAnd Mackenzie was never seen again..
ReplyDeleteMy pat answer is going to be, "I was at the doctor's office. I wear a face-mask every where else when out of my home." Up theirs and I will not be chipped, voluntarily.
ReplyDeleteRead something recently that said contact tracing is only helpful right at the beginning, i.e. during the first three days, of an outbreak. To paraphrase Hillary: at this point not sure if it still matters -- that horse left the barn months ago. But what a good excuse to try to exert more control.
ReplyDeleteSOP for Mormons. Where I liveoutside SLC we infidels joke that when the SHTF, they will come after us as they already know where we live.
ReplyDeleteI was at wal mart, home depot, dillons, McD's,taco bell, lowes, the mall shit pretty much everywhere and fuck you Mackenzie
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