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Privacy or Normalcy? By Alida Benoit

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In 2019, China upped the installation and use of technology for public surveillance. The installation of cameras city wide are used to enforce laws, monitor protesters, track possible terrorists and keep the general public in check. When COVID-19 struck the cities in March of 2020, they added an app with personalized barcodes to the surveillance list. It is used to get into stores, go to work, take public transportation, and go to restaurants when the barcode is green. The app also is able to see who was near a positive outbreak spot, changing the barcode from green to red. In most places if you don’t have the app, you cannot leave your home. There have been no new positive cases in China for over a month.

As of June, the United States has a death rate over 100 times larger than China. It has the most cases and the highest death rate in the world. The country waited nearly six weeks to release any federal regulations on social distancing or masks, and even now thirty states are not requiring masks statewide at all times. Some states have medical exemptions from the mask regulation and there is no strict monitoring for self-quarantine in result of privacy concerns. The country is still on a steady rise of tens of thousands of positive cases per day.

In order to stop the rising trends, the United States will need to make changes that prioritize stopping the pandemic over the concerns of privacy and sympathy for everyone’s situation. If an app that tracks your location and movements throughout the next few months would help, install it. Many apps, including GPS, google and Instagram already track your location both current and in the past. For people who have medical conditions that don’t allow them to wear masks, offer them another solution. Groceries delivered to your house or curbside pickup services would stop the need for physical contact along with opening jobs for the recent unemployment crisis. These solutions might be uncomfortable and are not ideal, but they would stop the rising trends, making them only temporary. Privacy should not be a deciding factor when lives are at stake.

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  1. This is an interesting comparison of two countries, however my question for you is have you thought about how this could be regulated in a country like ours? China is allowed to have that control because of their strict regulations and lack of people’s involvement in government. The US on the other hand controls things on a statewide basis and doesn’t always have the authority to tract people’s whereabouts. This could be a huge privacy concern for many people, regardless of the health benefits and could be a difficult solution.

  2. Comment by Kassie Peloso
    There are many ways the United States could have contained the spread of the virus better. The idea of adopting an app to monitor COVID-19 hot spots and keep the public safe(r) is a controversial topic, but one worth exploring. In a global pandemic, public health should be considered above all else. If the United States controlled the pandemic earlier, then how long its citizens would be unemployed would not be as prevalent of a concern as it is now. As citizens of the United States, everyone has a right to privacy. In China, the culture is different, so ultimately yes, any country should prioritize public health over privacy, but when privacy is protected by one’s country, it’s not so simple to give up.

  3. It’s quite baffling that although we have some of the most cases in the world, we are still not willing to go to more extremes in order to get us situated faster and stop the spread quickly and efficiently. The fact that different states are able to say what they want to do in terms of things such as masks and school openings have led to different parts of the country being in different spots with the pandemic. The states that have been complying with CDC regulations and have been taking extreme, but necessary precautions are doing so much better than the states who have really just ignored the situation. We will soon see the consequences of all of this unfortunately if nothing gets done soon.

  4. When taking about privacy and the coronavirus, these two topics are very controversial. So, in your opinion, people should sacrifice their privacy in order to save the lives of other people? However, if the privacy is disrupted it may cause a lot of damage and cause a ton of new issues. People should not be checked in order for the government to be sure that everyone is following the rules. If there is a chance that people won’t obey the given restrictions, then the government should create a new way to make people do so or make a use of officials that may control these rules in each state. Why do you think that if people will download the apps that may control their locations the coronavirus will end much faster? Even if the people will share their position there may be other factors that will affect the spread of the virus, such as those people who travel from the other countries. If the government wants everyone to obey the rules of the stay at home policy, then they should enforce it even more and by using the other tactic. As you stated in your blog, most states don’t have the regulation of wearing the mask all the time. This is one of many issues why the coronavirus is not going to end soon. All of the states should work together in order for the pandemic to be over. And by doing so they also need to keep in mind that people have their privacy and the line should not be crossed. What is your proposition of how the government may reduce the number of the infected people and also make an attempt to end the COVID-19 without risking losing the trust of the citizens and also keep everyone safe politically, personally, and medically speaking? My opinion is that they may put the army forces or the military in all of the states, as the president of the United States proposed during the riots recently, and control the people who don’t wear their masks in public or who don’t follow the other established rules.

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