[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)
![Dumb Blonde: Participate in contact-tracing (surveillance) because tracking billions of people who got in contact with 11,754,899 (known) active carriers and then testing those billions of people is totally feasible](http://techrights.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/contact-tracing.jpg)
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")