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Australian gov to use facial recognition and GPS tracking to enforce quarantine

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Re: Australian gov to use facial recognition and GPS tracking to enforce quarantine

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This might be an unpopular opinion! But there are some really bad people out there. The situation is getting out of hand here in Melbourne and there are people like this family who're Covid positive and still out and about in the community. We should blame selfish people like these for such measures from the government. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/melbourne/article-9964173/M...

The people aren’t to blame for an extreme government overreach.

Re: Australian gov to use facial recognition and GPS tracking to enforce quarantine

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Citizens need to enforce and assert their rights there before it's too late.

We just had hundreds of thousands of people go to the beach yesterday ignoring lockdown orders, I was worried about my country having read things like Gulag Archipelago, but the general population have shown where their line is. Still we're now a police state and the general population doesn't seem to give a shit about that.

Rally your people and take it to the politicians’ offices until they throw out these policies entirely. Wear masks and go in big numbers.

Re: Australian gov to use facial recognition and GPS tracking to enforce quarantine

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From TFA: >Downloading and using the G2G app is voluntary in WA [Western Australia], but the Government encourages people to use it So not enforced, right...? (EDIT: my bad, this refers to an existing app; the new app sounds like it would be a mandated download)

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Re: Australian gov to use facial recognition and GPS tracking to enforce quarantine

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Did you never learn that the definition of a government includes having a monopoly on violence? Australia would essentially become a failed state with your suggestion, and I don't exactly think the government is just going to let that happen.

Armed rebellion is not always needed to make changes. However just letting the state do what it wants without push back certainly is not going to change things.

It's also currently illegal to organise protests or leave the country.

Re: Australian gov to use facial recognition and GPS tracking to enforce quarantine

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post #14

This might be an unpopular opinion! But there are some really bad people out there. The situation is getting out of hand here in Melbourne and there are people like this family who're Covid positive and still out and about in the community. We should blame selfish people like these for such measures from the government. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/melbourne/article-9964173/M...

The people aren’t to blame for an extreme government overreach.

I think people like these deserve to be locked up! Either that or put a tracker on these people. I'm not saying that about all Covid positive people but just some of these extremely selfish pricks.

Re: Australian gov to use facial recognition and GPS tracking to enforce quarantine

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"... following a selective tender process in November" Remarkably slow process given that we are dealing with a pandemic. Worth pointing out that "Australian gov to use" should read "South Australian gov to use" (South Australia being a state of Australia). EDIT: As this thread is attracting attention from people who have views different from my own I'd just like to make it clear that I'm in favour of controlling the…

We're dealing with an endemic disease that is going on its third year. At some point, people and governments need to recognize that fact: it's not controllable and it will spread eventually no matter how dystopian you get.

But we have not tried putting people into individual cages yet. We should do it for their own good. After all, COVID is terrible for grandma Suzi. If we space the cages at 10 feet rather than 6 it should totally work to stop the spread of COVID and it will all be good!

#trustthescience

Re: Australian gov to use facial recognition and GPS tracking to enforce quarantine

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Did you never learn that the definition of a government includes having a monopoly on violence? Australia would essentially become a failed state with your suggestion, and I don't exactly think the government is just going to let that happen.

Australia is already on its way to being a failed state by now. Police and military patrol the streets to enforce rules, “papers please” tyranny is required to live, and soon they’ll demand complete surveillance and control in your own house. Wake up before it is too late. https://theconversation.com/vaccine-passports-are-coming-to-... “NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian yesterday announced freedoms for fully vaccinated…

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Re: Australian gov to use facial recognition and GPS tracking to enforce quarantine

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post #14

This might be an unpopular opinion! But there are some really bad people out there. The situation is getting out of hand here in Melbourne and there are people like this family who're Covid positive and still out and about in the community. We should blame selfish people like these for such measures from the government. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/melbourne/article-9964173/M...

Why would you blame random scapegoats instead of the people who are actually deciding to implement dystopian totalitarianism?

Re: Australian gov to use facial recognition and GPS tracking to enforce quarantine

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post #14

This might be an unpopular opinion! But there are some really bad people out there. The situation is getting out of hand here in Melbourne and there are people like this family who're Covid positive and still out and about in the community. We should blame selfish people like these for such measures from the government. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/melbourne/article-9964173/M...

The people aren’t to blame for an extreme government overreach.

Yeah? What should the gov do in a health emergency?
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