The $6 million+ New Zealand contact tracing app & how it may not have supported contact tracing - but like masks was it a visible reminder of risk to keep people on board with government restrictions?
The contact tracing app was only ever performance theatre at best. It was designed to enforce compliance, and to demonstrate ones virtue. At a practical outcomes level it was useless. It was always going to be 'after the event' and unable to prevent the transmission that may have already taken place. The idea of self isolating because you were in the same vicinity as someone who was infected was absurd, and unlikely to gain traction with most people.
My wife and I used to joke about the scanning signs on public toilets. Who wants to admit they caught covid in a public toilet? However we watched with amusement as the faithful lined up to scan themselves in.
My friend used to hold up his phone as if he were scanning the QR code, but he wasn't. I don't own a cellphone (I'm one of those who don't want to be tracked in real time), so I was supposed to write my name, address, and phone number on the "log books" of various retailers. Sometimes I wrote Bozo the Clown at 40 Bowen Street, Welly, and sometimes The Great and Powerful Jabcinda on Bucktooth Lane. Stuff like that.
I got royally disgusted watching all the trusting little hobbits obey their globalist overlords by slavishly bowing to their diktats.
The contact tracing app was only ever performance theatre at best. It was designed to enforce compliance, and to demonstrate ones virtue. At a practical outcomes level it was useless. It was always going to be 'after the event' and unable to prevent the transmission that may have already taken place. The idea of self isolating because you were in the same vicinity as someone who was infected was absurd, and unlikely to gain traction with most people.
My wife and I used to joke about the scanning signs on public toilets. Who wants to admit they caught covid in a public toilet? However we watched with amusement as the faithful lined up to scan themselves in.
My friend used to hold up his phone as if he were scanning the QR code, but he wasn't. I don't own a cellphone (I'm one of those who don't want to be tracked in real time), so I was supposed to write my name, address, and phone number on the "log books" of various retailers. Sometimes I wrote Bozo the Clown at 40 Bowen Street, Welly, and sometimes The Great and Powerful Jabcinda on Bucktooth Lane. Stuff like that.
I got royally disgusted watching all the trusting little hobbits obey their globalist overlords by slavishly bowing to their diktats.
I’m quite glad I never downloaded that useless app!
Thanks for putting all this together - it certainly was dystopian! I've just posted a playful piece on this, with more to follow when time allows.