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“Covid is critical because it convinces people to accept biometric surveillance”

by WaxedChewbacca on 5/22/22, 3:10 AM with 19 comments

• by sp332 on 5/22/22, 4:40 AM

  But federal and state governments are ramping down testing and funding for testing. What tests there are are mainly home tests, and health agencies aren't even interested in hearing about positive results. Surveillance isn't getting entrenched.

  Edit: Also from what I can see, he's not actually a member of WEF, he just gives talks there.

• by __B_B__ on 5/22/22, 10:24 AM

  Utopians like Harari don't actually have any ideas about even the most fundamental questions like the nature of consciousness, the nature of free will, whether it is right to force someone to do something they don't want to do, or what is the significance of freedom of association.

  They rely on that poverty of discourse for validity and probably find disagreement, debate and the constant tension of these questions to be irritating and they want it to end, so their propositions simply assume a position on these things then assert some moralistic or otherwise utopian vision of plenty to be derived from them at some undefined point in the future. This is what irrational and religious people do in order to justify their own power, because ultimately that's what really matters to them.

• by georgia_peach on 5/22/22, 4:25 AM

  Kind of explains the abrupt Roe v. Wade reversal: a ruling based on a right to privacy & body autonomy would be in direct conflict with employer testing, contact tracing, forced vaccination, etc...