Yes, but here is a revolutionary thought. How about getting the app, encouraging others to do so and mixing with everyone as much as one possibly can? The whole system would clog up so quickly, it would expose it for what a fiasco it is.
Nobody would die or be hurt. There would be a short, sharp shock followed by a new dawn. This is satyagraha - grasping at truth - in action. It may be the only way to demonstrate the truth as rational argument is not having much success.
Blimey, I am even tempted to download the app myself!
It does sound tempting indeed, but what if...
Quiet big group will get notification to self-isolate. Because it would be big cluster of people from one place such as a town, it might trigger a very tough response from government. Health officials and maybe some law enforcement officers on the case, exercising the coronavirus act and detaining people and their kids for mass testing. Maybe it would even trigger the whole town to be under the lockdown and they will try to take a credit of how efficiently they tackling the outbreak that just happened while the put everyone under house arrest and those who won't comply will get detain for as much as they want to detain them for. That powers are explained in coronavirus act - pretty scary stuff.
Also when I think about it further it actually might reassure those who really believe in this, that it is real and government doing everything what they can to protect everyone.
Yes, that might happen. Everyone would have to take a hit for a while. However, when it dawns that there are few - if any - excess deaths and nobody is hurt, it would be manifestly obvious that the test program is ridiculous, the pandemic has passed and there is nothing to fear. Do we believe this ourselves, or not? Would we be prepared to jeopardise a little freedom now for some greater freedom later? Gandhi's followers must have asked themselves the same question.
Today, I was preparing an old smart phone (well, a half-wit phone really) to scan the QR codes and evade tracking. How selfish of me! If I were to go out and about using my own phone until, unavoidably, I eventually get the message to self-isolate, that would be honest of me. What a good, compliant citizen I would be!
Of course, I would need to go to several shops on the way home - to get supplies and so on to see me through my government-imposed isolation. They would be quite heavy, so I would have to take a bus home. And I might just have to wait for a particular bus, which may happen to be full of passengers. I may also have to approach some public employees or key workers for advice. When I get home, I may need to put my phone on the window sill because I get a poor mobile signal. The bluetooth signal might stray beyond the window onto the path where people are walking by.
Paradoxically, the only way this test programme will survive is by people not using it fully. The more we use it, the more its faults will show through.
Test and Trash could be our motto! Dare we?
