Mass surveillance is imposed and can't be opted-out from (unless you have an invisibility device, in the case of widespread cameras).
QR codes can also be discarded, or new ones issued. Biometrics (e.g. face structure) cannot be replaced once "compromised". I use quotes for the latter, since biometrics are never secret in the first place (e.g. if we could keep our faces, fingerprints, DNA, etc. secret then they'd be useless in criminal investigations!).
If I am in Germany, I can choose not to show a QR code if I _never go out_.
Thankfully I live in the UK with none of this nonsense _and better outcomes_.
Source: https://www.rbb24.de/panorama/thema/corona/beitraege/2021/09...
If it even matches the source as is. Play Store and App Store are non reproducible.
Obviously there's a risk that the person scanning the QR code does shady things with it but it's rather unlikely the app itself will. It would be caught really quickly.
It's also worth pointing out that Germany DOES recognize natural immunity and allows this to serve in place of a jab. Haven't seen that reported in US news but you can find it in European papers.
That lockdown was not a completely unfounded suggestion though, given that both the number of infected and the number of new cases/day are twice as high as during last year's peak [1] -- and last year's peak was around Christmas, not in November.
[1] https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/germany/#g...
If I get corona I get a bad cold.
Non issue for the vaccinated below 70.
References:
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02689-y
https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/innenpolitik/impfdurchbruec... (german)
- Unvaccinated people are at greater risk of complications from catching COVID, so limiting the avenues for transmission to them helps curb fatality rates and hospital occupancy.
- And, undoubtedly, it's also an incentive for individuals to get vaccinated. Again, with the goal to reduce the overall number of hospitalizations and deaths.
They've studied this and shown it to be untrue.
https://www.ucdavis.edu/health/covid-19/news/viral-loads-sim...
I’m tired of this argument. Unless one has a medical condition preventing them from being vaccinated, who cares? We somehow got in a state where we protect unvaccinated minority who doesn’t care about how inconvenient they make the lives of everyone else.
One way of convincing people to vaccinate may be to make the ecmo treatment non-coverable under medical insurance for unvaccinated with no confirmed condition preventing vaccination and let’s move on with our lives. What’s the plan otherwise? Another 2 years? 5 years? 10 years?
This wouldn't be such a big problem if the unvaccinated weren't overwhelming the hospitals and ICUs, which affects everybody in case of emergencies or even planned surgeries.
You were infected? -> who were you in close contact with? -> did they get infected?
Result? Negligible impact, rapidly declining. Reducing your contacts by 30% has a much greater impact on spread than vaccination does.
https://www.zdf.de/nachrichten/panorama/corona-studie-impfdu...
Check out their weekly reports, the relevant tables are usually around page 21 or 22. In the most recent one, it's on page 24.
https://www.rki.de/DE/Content/InfAZ/N/Neuartiges_Coronavirus...
The Ms. Wagenknecht said something similar with the numbers presented by you: From 3000 people on the ICU, 2/3 were unvaccinated. A pretty high number of Vaccinated.
Reference:
Not to mention that at this time the RKI was still counting reported hospitalizations into the "unvaccinated" category if there was no vaccination status known.
Currently that figure is at around 60% of all reported hospitalizations and can be checked by everyone, since the raw data is public.
If you're not vaccinated and not old you will not die to 1-2dp.
It's finished, done, boring now.
Most people with accounts to these platforms have credit-cards, payment history and communication with others. There is nothing particularly special about vaccination QR codes being more unique than any of the other multitudes of data you already provide, willingly, to these tech corps.
Checking logs of a state-run server is way easier.
Which would be a local telco.
> QR codes aren't effective at all as a surveillance mechanism. Why the hell does the government need to monitor which venues you visit based on QR code check-ins? They literally just ask Apple, Google, or any other big tech company about your phones geolocation and IP log history to monitor your whereabouts.
This is about locating a user based on QR code scanned at a venue. All I’m saying: no need to ask Apple or Google. Your telco already knows you have been at a location at the time of the venue.
Telcos can calculate approximately where I was (with accuracy worse than raw unaided GPS - so ±10m at least, and unpredictably wrong if I'm behind a wall or in a vertically built-up area) at a particular point in time - but they don't know the exact timestamp to look for.
Well, if the source (of the scanner) is even legit, since the app stores provide no way to verify that anyway.