“Contact tracing” sounds like a good idea on the surface. If health officials can track your movements with GPS precision, they will know if you come into contact with someone who has the coronavirus so you can then be tested. It’s for YOUR safety, after all.
And if the idea of the government tracking your every move and keeping an eye on you at all times for your own good sounds vaguely familiar, that’s because it’s been done before. Aside from being the whole plot of George Orwell’s dystopian novel “1984,” contact tracing has basically been the goal of totalitarian governments since the mid-20th century. Josef Stalin was a huge fan of contact tracing, along with Hitler’s secret police.
What better way to keep your subjects in line than to spy on them at all times while encouraging their neighbors to snitch on them when they break a rule?
In some blue states, the governors have already announced their contact tracing plans and have them under way. The Big Tech companies are only too happy to play along with them. They love mass surveillance! In Washington state, Governor Jay Inslee has set up camps to detain people who test positive for coronavirus.
Just imagine! Contact tracers show up at your door one day because you walked too close to an infected person at the grocery store. And then, for your safety, they’ll pull you out of your house and stick you in a quarantine/concentration camp against your will. That’s “contact tracing” in a nutshell.
Check out this detailed report on how contact tracing is about to be the death of freedom of movement for Americans if we let it happen…
