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Re:Germany: New government plans 'right to encryption' by thewakalix on Friday December 03, 2021 @09:55PM (#29438257)
Aren’t infected people required to quarantine for a period of time? “Preventing both relatively larger and smaller harms, because they are both too large to tolerate,” doesn’t seem contradictory to me. And “not being vaccinated” is a pretty concrete property.
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Re:Germany: New government plans 'right to encryption' by TheSpiceIsLife on Friday December 03, 2021 @10:02PM (#29438288)
> Aren’t infected people required to quarantine for a period of time?

No?

Only some subset of those who are infected are required to isolate / quarantine.

Those who don’t get tested are free to meander.

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Re:Germany: New government plans 'right to encryption' by bostik on Saturday December 04, 2021 @02:45AM (#29439426)
> Those who don’t get tested are free to meander.

And we should call them for what they are: mobile biohazards.

There are established protocols and procedures for dealing with such.

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Re:Germany: New government plans 'right to encryption' by TheSpiceIsLife on Saturday December 04, 2021 @10:31PM (#29446480)
All humans are disease vectors.

I’m not convinced we, here in Australia anyway, have achieved a balance sufficient to satisfy my particular set of beliefs - as far as they go in this five minute period.

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Re:Germany: New government plans 'right to encryption' by account42 on Monday December 06, 2021 @03:14AM (#29457411)
> Those who don’t get tested are free to meander.

Since worklplaces and public transport require at tests for the unvaccinated now, those walking around untested are mostly the vaccinated.

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