{"id":206522,"date":"2020-05-01T07:04:06","date_gmt":"2020-05-01T07:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=206522"},"modified":"2020-05-04T07:46:05","modified_gmt":"2020-05-04T07:46:05","slug":"think-tank-claims-dramatic-increase-in-surveillance-price-worth-paying-to-fight-seasonal-flu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=206522","title":{"rendered":"Think Tank Claims \u2018Dramatic Increase\u2019 In Surveillance \u2018Price Worth Paying\u2019 To Fight Seasonal Flu"},"content":{"rendered":"

Christians for Truth \u2013 April 27, 2020<\/strong><\/h1>\n

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Now that governments and mass media have successfully colluded to create the illusion of a worldwide \u2018pandemic\u2019, a U.K. \u2018think tank\u2019 headed by ex-Prime Minister, Tony Blair, is trying to convince the beleaguered public that we should now accept massive government surveillance<\/a><\/strong><\/span> of our lives so that we won\u2019t have to go through another fake pandemic:<\/span><\/p>\n

A dramatic increase in technological surveillance is a \u201cprice worth paying\u201d to fight Covid-19<\/strong>, argues a report from the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change.<\/span><\/p>\n

Governments and private companies can use location data to track the success of lockdown measures, monitor bluetooth signals to help contact tracing efforts, or keep an eye on search queries to help identify new clusters of infection or previously unknown symptoms<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Privacy activists have warned, however, that such extensions of surveillance could be a dangerous precedent that would be hard to roll back once the crisis is over<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n

The TBI argues in the report published on Friday that those fears are valid<\/strong>, but understate the degree of trade-off that many countries face.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cCarefully applied, technology gives policymakers a possible way through the crisis that reduces otherwise very high costs in terms of lives lost and livelihoods destroyed<\/strong>,\u201d said Chris Yiu, the institute\u2019s executive director of technology and public policy. \u201cBut this escape route comes with a price: dramatically increased technological surveillance. Under the right conditions, this is a price worth paying<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIn normal times the degree of monitoring and state intervention we are talking about here would be out of the question in liberal democracies,\u201d Yiu continued. \u201cBut these are not normal times,<\/strong> and the alternatives are even more unpalatable. This is quite different from the traditional debate about whether confronting security threats to our way of life merits sacrificing the values of freedom and privacy that define us<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cCovid-19 is not an ideology, and rebalancing the contract between citizens and the state to take advantage of the capabilities of new technologies is not capitulation<\/strong>.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

As a result, governments should consider a number of interventions that might normally cross the line<\/strong>, Yiu said. For instance, states could require technology platforms to share, in aggregate form, search and social media trends<\/strong>, and telemetry from wearables and other connected devices, to help them respond to the crisis. And they could share patient data internationally, to accelerate the search for treatments and vaccines<\/strong>, rather than putting up walls around national health services as they would in normal times.<\/span><\/p>\n

But the brakes should not be removed entirely. The TBI argues strongly against \u201ccoercive\u201d linking of apps and services: for instance, requiring people to use a contact tracing programme in order to receive digital credentials proving they are key workers<\/strong>. \u201cIf it is necessary to deem participation in a scheme mandatory,\u201d the report argues, \u201cthis should be legislated for.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Others disagree, however. A joint letter from almost 300 academics working in computer science and privacy rejected the dichotomy the TBI proposed, arguing that technological surveillance would hamper, not help, efforts to fight the coronavirus by wrecking the public trust that is needed for uptake<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n

The academics wrote: \u201cIt is crucial that citizens trust<\/strong> the applications in order to produce sufficient uptake to make a difference in tackling the crisis. It is vital that, in coming out of the current crisis, we do not create a tool that enables large-scale data collection on the population, either now or at a later time. Thus, solutions which allow reconstructing invasive information about the population should be rejected without further discussion. Such information can include the \u2018social graph\u2019 of who someone has physically met over a period of time.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

This orwellian Big Brother, Soviet-style total surveillance society and snitch culture is the endgame, and they are going to milk this fake pandemic as long as they can to get the concessions they want toward those ends.<\/span><\/p>\n

After all, the public has a right to know if you are running a fever or have had your worthless seasonal flu shot \u2014 otherwise you could be unwittingly killing people you come in contract with, or some such nonsense.<\/span><\/p>\n

For all intents and purposes, however, this fake pandemic has runs its course \u2014 all media outlets are reporting drastic drops in cases and deaths \u2014 and yet Tony Blair thinks we should submit to massive government surveillance anyway.<\/span><\/p>\n

So how do they make COVID-19 a gift that keeps on giving?\u00a0 Easy \u2014 make absurd claims such as nobody can get natural immunit<\/strong><\/span>y<\/a> to this virus through normal exposure \u2014 so that only their Franken-Vaccine will make you \u201csafe\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n

Apparently, this is the only virus ever discovered in the history of science to which we cannot develop natural immunity.\u00a0 Let that sink in.<\/span><\/p>\n

And even that presumes they\u2019ve actually isolated the virus in question \u2014 and there\u2019s good reason to believe that they haven\u2019t even done that<\/a><\/strong><\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Perhaps the lesson that we should all take awy from this \u2018pandemic\u2019 is what Hillary Clinton<\/a> <\/strong><\/span>suggested we should learn from George Orwell\u2019s dystopian novel 1984<\/em> \u2014 that \u201cwe should trust leaders, the press, and experts<\/em>.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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