ER Editor: This is what technocratic tyranny looks like. What is shocking about the MSM videos below is that people just adapt to whatever tyrannical, nonsensical system is being dished out. The way in which many of us meekly acquiesce to this is a truly alarming feature of our species.
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Victoria, Australia to Require QR Code Contact Tracing for All Businesses, Including Grocery Stores
NEED TO KNOW NEWS
The state of Victoria now requires individuals to check in at all retail stores, supermarkets and cafes for the purpose of contact tracing using QR codes. Individuals who refuse to check in may be denied food. Contact tracing officers will be visiting supermarkets and other retail settings to make sure people are following the rules. Businesses may be fined up to $1,278 USD for not following QR code rules and a further $7,671 if there are repeated breaches. People who visited a ‘Tier 1 COVID Exposure site’ are advised to get tested immediately and quarantine for 14 days. – NTN NEWS
The Victorian government will now require people to check in at retail stores and supermarkets regardless of the length of time they spend in the store, as new data reveals a huge increase in check-ins to the Service Victoria app once the state forced businesses to begin using it.
As part of the extension of the lockdown in Melbourne, the acting premier, James Merlino, announced on Wednesday that supermarkets and retailers would be required to make everyone check in when they entered into the store. Previously it was only a recommendation.
After the state recorded a number of Covid-19 transmissions at retail stores where the contacts had “fleeting” contact, Victoria’s chief health officer, Prof Brett Sutton, said the change was to ensure records of everyone at potential exposure sites were complete.
“We are in a position now where the Victorian community is motivated to do the right thing and they understand the importance of contact tracing in this space,” he said.
“And even though we have been doing really well in identifying people at all exposure sites, I think everyone recognises that we have to do absolutely everything in our power to be able to chase down every single person who may be exposed because it is that one person who is not found who may be the one who spreads it.”
The Victorian government launched its Covid QR-code check-in app, Service Victoria, at the end of November 2020 but continued to allow hospitality venues to to use their own QR-code systems to record people visiting.
However, since the end of March, third-party app providers have been required to use the government application programming interface, meaning all the check-in data across the state goes to the one government-held database when contact tracers need it, regardless of which app is used.
The Service Victoria app then became mandatory for all businesses to use from Friday 28 May – coincidentally the first day Victoria entered a one-week lockdown due to a Covid-19 outbreak.
Data obtained by Guardian Australia reveals a significant increase in check-ins to the Service Victoria app in May as businesses began to transition to the single app.
The state had 18m check-ins between 13 and 31 May, out of 39m in total since the app was launched at the end of November 2020.
Victoria’s app still has recorded far fewer check-ins than its counterpart in New South Wales, where the Service NSW app has been mandatory since 1 January.
ABC Australia: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-03/new-exposure-sites-victoria-june-3/100186638
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So much is happening quickly. I haven’t got time for all the reading, but I just fell over this. Quebec seems to be going the path of Australia:
Marc-André Gagnon: “Vaccination in Quebec: digital proof for everyone”. Le Journal de Montréal, May 6, 2021.
https://bit.ly/3ziOiX5
“Quebecers who have been vaccinated and those who will soon be able to receive, as of May 13, digital proof of vaccination in the form of a QR code, the usefulness and privileges of which may be associated with it remain to be specified.
• Read also: COVID-19 in Quebec: two doses for 12 to 17 year olds before the start of the school year
• To read also: [SURVEY] COVID-19: 86% of Quebecers in favor of the vaccine”
That’s from a month ago.