Happy Covid App Days in South Australia! By James Reed
South Australia was not established as a penal colony, and since NSW and Victoria were, there has always been a bit of jealousy from the crow eaters about us high status Victorians. So, my theory is that SA is just compensating now, with a new quarantine app that at random will require for you to show pictures that you are home, and not being a dirty boy and out spreading germs. It will not surprise me if some state is the first to reintroduce capital punishment and medieval tortures for those failing to Covid conform. Nothing surprises me anymore in this dump.
“South Australia residents now forced to download quarantine app that randomly requires picture proving they are at home
“I think every South Australian should feel pretty proud that we are the national pilot for the home-based quarantine app," Premier Steven Marshall said.
Australia’s federal and state governments public health restrictions on its citizens have become even more draconian, with restrictions on freedom of movement and a requirement that citizens in South Australia download a phone app that combines facial recognition with geolocation.
Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison recently said he knows that the burden is heavy, and that “This is not a sustainable way to live in this country.”
Interstate travel within Australia has been severely restricted in an effort to stop the spread of COVID-19 throughout the country, with residents now being forced to download an Orwellian phone app that uses facial recognition and geolocation to keep track of its citizens.
People in South Australia will be forced to download an app that combines facial recognition and geolocation. The state will text them at random times, and thereafter they will have 15 minutes to take a picture of their face in the location where they are supposed to be. Should they fail, the local police department will be sent to follow up in person. “We don’t tell them how often or when, on a random basis they have to reply within 15 minutes,” Premier Steven Marshall explained. “I think every South Australian should feel pretty proud that we are the national pilot for the home-based quarantine app.”
Other states in the country have also cracked down on citizens’ liberties in the name of safety, with the state of Victoria announcing a curfew and suspending parliamentary activities during the pandemic.
Scholar John Lee wrote in an article for the Brookings Institution that, “To put this in context, federal and state parliaments sat during both world wars and the Spanish Flu, and curfews have never been imposed.”
“In responding to a question about whether he had gone too far with respect to imposing a curfew (avoiding the question of why a curfew was needed when no other state had one), Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews replied: ‘it is not about human rights. It is about human life,’” according to the Atlantic.
Speaking to the BBC, New South Wales Police Minister David Elliott defended the deployment of the Australian military to enforce lockdowns, saying that some residents of the state thought “the rules didn’t apply to them.” In Sydney, where more than five million people have been in lockdown for more than two months, and Melbourne, the country’s second-biggest city, anti-lockdown protests were banned, and when dissenters gathered anyway, hundreds were arrested and fined, Reuters reported.”
As I see it, people may end up spending all day sending photos of themselves, selfies, every few minutes, just in case they have to take a call of nature lasting longer than 15 minutes, or they may choose to simply send the toilet photo. I do not know the minds of South Australians. But I do know that everyone is a friend in South Australia, and will not judge.
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