The COVID-19 pandemic represents an unprecedented threat to our collective physical, mental and economic health. To date, over 8,000 Canadians have lost their lives, 8.4 million have accessed emergency income supports, countless businesses have had their viability threatened and our 2021 federal budget deficit will likely exceed $250 billion — increasing our total federal debt by 35 per cent in just one year.
The all-important process of contact tracing and notifying people who may have been exposed is labour intensive and subject to several practical limitations. A public health worker must interview each person who tests positive to find everyone that person might have infected. Success depends on those who test positive remembering, and willingly disclosing, every contact. Public health officials then get on the phone to find and notify each person on that list.
Wide adoption of an exposure notification app among the 87 per cent of Canadians who have smartphones would strengthen traditional public health efforts. However, these apps have been launched in several countries and some have had lacklustre results. In early April, Iceland introduced an app just as it flattened its curve. It had limited effect because it was downloaded by only 38 per cent of the population. Singapore was even lower, at 20 per cent.
No we don’t! Sorry - no more big brother.
Bs... liberal media again for police state.
And this is where I think I opt out of following the national Post what freaking idiocy...
You are advocating that the state be given without question the right to track its population with impunity. Civil liberties be damned. So no.
Good luck with that
Okay, experts: Why do you think the people of Iceland and Singapore weren’t keen on downloading a spy app onto their phones?
no thank you, were already tracked enough with our phones.
The app is useless if people do not agree to use download and use.
Opinion: We need less opinion pieces.
I already have enough apps on my phone tracking me.
Electronics collect your data and you’re transmitting everywhere already. Most people’s expectation on privacy may already be flawed imho 🤷🏻♀️ Who actually reads all those user agreements? 🙋🏻♀️
F*ck off. That's one step closer to Chinese-style social credit scores. We need elected Senators with term limits more.
I actually agree with this. We already have the Tim Hortons app tracking our every move, surely we can allow this as it could save your life.
No TF we don't. Stop this nonsense.
What could go wrong with the government watching you at all times and forcing you to obey all their commands? It’s not like a book came out called 1984 by Orwell that explicitly described the dystopia that would occur. So don’t worry! COMPLY.
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No to 1984.
Better dust off my Motorola Razor
Big money in finding another way to communicate. I mean what would it take for a text phone. No 12345g. Just texts maybe talk. Better yet. Throw it out. Get rid of that garbage. Like you need the internet on your phone anyway.
Why do we need a national surveillance app again?
Why is Norway deleting all of the data it captured through it's Covid contract-tracing app? Because the protection authority raised concerns about invasion of privacy.
Feel free to download whatever apps YOU would like to YOUR devices. Only arrogant fools pretend to speak for an entire country
But don't need access to my contact list ,photo albums and everything else stored on my phonethink we were living in a place like China or North Korea...
Nah
No we do not! Stop spying on people.
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