Contact Tracing

Where are you? Who have you been in contact with? Where did you come from? Where are you going?

For some time people have wanted their social networks to tell them where the closest restaurant is or how to grab a ride or how to get from point A to point B, but no one wanted to be tracked.

People would duck away from security cameras trying to hide with a phone in their pocket following their every move.

From time beginning, the computer works on a network by ‘pinging’. This is how your computer or phone or pad can go out through the air and contact another computer or phone or pizza delivery van.

While it is wonderful technology that a quick press of a button can connect you with the world, but the computer that sends your message knows where you want to go and also knows who you are.

Our privacy has always been cherished and protected with safe deposit boxes and passwords, but we have to give up one for the other.

The advertisements that appear on your Facebook pages or your Tinder links or your Amazon orders are just your history of research and interest given back to you.

You can’t have privacy and also immediate connection with the world.

So now this new ‘contact tracing’ or personal snooping would only take place after you have been tested for the cooties.

On this test, if you fail you have to stay home. Call it isolation, quarantine or prison, you failed the test and must stay in detention.

Then the ‘contact tracing’ starts.

Sort of like a genealogy of who do you come from and when, a contact detective team will grill you on where have you been, who did you see, where did you go in the past month. Once they have a list of names and places the contact tracers will spread out and seek out anyone who may have shared spit or had close proximity and find out where they were and who they knew, and the list goes on and on.

If the test is given and re-given, more and more people will be detained from normal living and more and more data will be accumulated. This information along with your social media profiles, friends, contacts, census, tax information and religious affiliation will be combined to know who you are and where you are at any given time.

Giving up your privacy is your decision but what about your friends and family? What about the person you passed on the street who you have never seen before? Can you describe their outfit, haircut and direction they went? Where they tall or short? Did they speak to you? Were they in a vehicle? Did you get the license number?

Understanding this ‘contact tracing’ is to find out WHO has the cooties and then corralling them into submission until a solution is concocted or they just die, the sun will shine again tomorrow.

When the contact detectives knock on your door, feel free to take the swab and give them all the information on your whereabouts and friends and neighbors and associates and credit card numbers and social media contacts for this is a National Emergency and Freedom's just another word for nothin’ left to lose.