Singapore to test compulsory COVID-tracker usage as condition of entry to some venues
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- News link: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/09/15/singapore_testing_compulsory_contact_tracing/
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The city-state was among the first to introduce a contact-tracing smartphone app and later introduced a dumb device for those who don’t fancy, or don’t own, a smartphone. Both are branded “TraceTogether”.
The dumb device made it to market yesterday and is free to any citizen or resident who wants one. The device uses Bluetooth to ping nearby devices and, when it finds either a token or app present, exchanges encrypted IDs to allow later contact-tracing in the event of an encounter with a COVID-19-carrier. The device is water-resistant, should last six months without a change of battery, and is a small white box that resembles an Apple AirPods case. A large loop lets the device be worn on a lanyard or attached to a key ring.
The debut of the device means no Singaporean need be without a contact-tracing gadget.
And it appears that Singapore wants no Singaporean to be without one.
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Vivian Balakrishnan, the minister in charge of Singapore’s Smart Nation initiative, announced trials of “TraceTogether-Only SafeEntry for high-risk activities and venues.” Singapore hopes to soon allow gatherings of up to 250 people at venues such as theatres or conference centres.
Minister Balakrishnan declared that use of contact-tracing tech will make that possible.
“This will enable us to open up safely in the coming weeks and months,” he said on his [2]Facebook feed . “I am encouraged that TraceTogether has been downloaded 2.4 million times to date. I urge everyone to be protected by the TraceTogether Programme, using either the App or the new Token. We are all safer - together.” ®
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[1] https://www.theregister.com/2020/09/02/google_apple_exposure_notifications_express/
[2] https://www.facebook.com/Vivian.Balakrishnan.Sg/posts/10157101281876207
[3] https://whitepapers.theregister.com/
Re: This will enable us to open up safely in the coming weeks and months
Just like CCTV being placed "for your safety"
Re: This will enable us to open up safely in the coming weeks and months
It is not meant to prevent, it is meant to allow for quickly putting the infected people under quarantine and stop them from spreading it further.
Re: This will enable us to open up safely in the coming weeks and months
The point is you are not allowed in without one. So there should be no unknown persons.
USA fixed their Coronavirus
Here look, they stopped testing for it in red states, and stopped declaring deaths from Coronavirus (no test, means no Covid19 as cause).
Problem solved, nobody dies of Coronavirus if you don't test anyone!
https://i.imgur.com/LncJBYp.png
The drop in testing coincides with the July 16th switch from cases being reported to the CDC to instead sending the data to HHS.
That data is out of date, but its continued, they keep reducing the testing so as to reduce the outcomes and let the disease spread:
https://covidtracking.com/data
The Woodward book reveals Trump was boasting about lying about how deadly and infectious it is.
Trump will have told the same truths to Fox News pundits in his many private discussions with them. He won't have just confessed to Woodward, he will have confessed to his Fox & Friends buddies off camera. Yet they chose to repeat the lie to their viewers anyway. Fox News viewers are older viewers more likely to die from Corona virus.
The liars on Fox New want their viewers to die, rather than Trump to be embarrassed. Fox News viewers lives don't matter to Fox News.
But Fox News viewers lives *do* matter.
But hey, look at the distractathon, "Antifa started the wild fires to steal your TVs", "Black Lives Matters is really code for Blue Lives Don't matter, shoot them on site!", "cannibal pedo Marxists Democrats like peeing on pizzas says Putin", "God says vote Trump, according to all televangelists and dead popes".....
This will enable us to open up safely in the coming weeks and months
Nope, not realy. It won't prevent an infected-but-unknown-to-the-system person entering the high-risk venue and spreading the virus inside. It justs enables tracing everyone after the fact.
False sense of security, and potentially the thin end of a perpetual tracked-by-the-state wedge. But hey, it's Singapore. Something like that'd never be considered here. Wait... No. Of course it would.