[Meme] Contact-Tracing Ploy (Mission Creep/Mass Surveillance) is Only Effective When Dealing With Patient Zero and Few Others, Not Millions
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2020-11-01 16:05:56 UTC
- Modified: 2020-11-01 16:05:56 UTC
Similarly, facial recognition is only effective when dealing with very small sets of people (who can be reliably differentiated)
It doesn't scale anymore (and hasn't truly scaled since the end of last year)
Summary: Suggesting contact-tracing when you can only test less than a thousand people per day (in countries where thousands of people are already infected) was all along suggesting a waste of effort and money (patient zero goes over a year back), as Australia too recently found out (see "Fancy some contact tracing? That'll be $4.12 million a pop")
