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A comment on Australia’s new mass surveillance mandate. Parent comment

Re:Australia’s new mass surveillance mandate by kongin on Wednesday September 08, 2021 @06:21AM (#28455184)
> When the alternative is thousands and thousands of deaths, most of us are willing to temporarily give up a bit of civil liberty.

Don't worry, you'll be doing both and it won't be temporary.

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Re:Australia’s new mass surveillance mandate by jezzzabell on Wednesday September 08, 2021 @05:40PM (#28463405)
Please explain.
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Re:Australia’s new mass surveillance mandate by kongin on Wednesday September 08, 2021 @09:33PM (#28465193)
The death rate for Covid in even a fully vaccinated population is somewhere between 2 to 8 per million per day given Israel's current figures. Which means from 700 to 3000 deaths per million per year.

And you won't be getting the freedoms you gave up back, since the police are already using your location data to arrest you: https://theconversation.com/police-access-to-covid-check-in-...

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