Surely this would not apply to COVID-19 and Christianity?
How to use vaccination to suppress free thought
Video shows Bill Gates presenting vaccine for religious fundamentalists to Pentagon
Reuters Fact Check
Anti-vaccine and anti-Christianity conspiracy theories are the real danger to public health.
This type of insane thinking is a big part of the reason why the USA is failing so bad compared to the rest of the industrial world in combating the pandemic.
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@sawgrass - surely you donât believe this crap? This is such an obvious fake Iâll just leave it here because I think most of you are intelligent enough to see it for the bs it is.
A. Itâs clearly not Bill Gates (theyâre not even trying very hard - the closeup of Bill Gates in a tie doesnât come close to matching the distant figure without a tie.)
B. The âreligious fanaticâ overdubbed nonsense is never reflected in the slides.
If you believe this sad fake Iâd like to offer to double your bitcoin.
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LOL, Iâm dying here 
hahahahahahahaha
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aaaaand BOOM goes da dynamite! 
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Kind of a low tech issue related to ongoing COVID activity in Australia.
The NSW government has made it mandatory as of 23 November that businesses serving the public must provide a digital sign in process using QR code for anyone entering their premise. They must also provide a means for those without mobile phones to digitally sign in.
Wandering the streets of a border town between NSW and Victoria the week before, I âsignedâ into 4 different businesses. Three provided a different QR code based sign in service, one only had a pen and paper sign-in. Each of the QR code systems popped up a form to fill in, one requiring a name and email, one requiring first, last name, mobile number and email, and one requiring first and last name, mobile number, email, and address. In at least one case, it asked how many were in your party, and required filling in same info for each person. And, in all cases, if you left out filling a field, it would not continue. Very honestly, in every case it asked for more than a name and mobile number, I exited the form and filled in the pen and paper form with only my first name and mobile number.
Ok, lets address the pen and paper form. Anyone walking by can snap a photo of the form, and now has the info people have provided, and can begin hacking, identity theft, or simply annoying actions with that info. Just what the world needs, an easier way for nefarious people to get contact info on more people.
Next, businesses and governments insisting on developing their own digital processes to collect the information needed for contact tracing. Most of us have mobile phones that know the required information, or can run an app where upon installing the app, you fill in a contact address or phone number, and never have to fill in the information again. But, even different state governments, and government departments within a state insist their method is better, so we end up with this multitude of processes, each one worse than the other, and a new security and privacy issue with each. Great example. NSW has a department called Service. NSW, which handles the border permit system, digital drivers licensing, and much more. They have an app that responds to their QR codes. You create an account online or in their service centres, and fill in required information for the account. When you scan a Service NSW QR code, the app opens, it identifies the business you are entering, and you click âCheck inâ. Youâre done. Meanwhile, another business uses a NSW Health department QR code system. âhow many in your part?â, first name, last name, mobile number, email address, same for each one in your party.
Created a unique email address in my personal domain for COVID sign in. All they get now is my first name, time I checked in, and that email address.
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Good idea about creating a new email address. I just recently set up catch all on my Microsoft 365 Business Standard account so I will no doubt pluck an address out of the air for such purposes.
Here theyâve combined the venue check-in system with the contact-tracing app, so only one system in use, with paper backup if needed. Seems to work. So how do all those solutions you have in NSW share contact-tracing data then? 
It appears that there is no definition of how data is shared. Assumption is if there is a virus case detected, data will be provided to tracing authorities upon request.
Keep in mind that at least currently, Australian states are experiencing very small numbers of locally transmitted cases (single digit or zero most days right now). Another example of reactive vs proactive response.
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Got my COVID vaccine appointment scheduled at one of our local clinics. Each time slot is 10-minutes. Based on how we used to calculate manufacturing capacity, 200-days * 8-hrs = 1600 hrs per yr. doing 6 per hour or 9600 people per year. That means it will take ~21,000 clinicians 1-year to vaccinate 200M people. Not sure how to put 21K into perspective.
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Interesting! Maybe this way:
âAs of 2018, there are 19,495 incorporated cities, towns and villages in the United States. 14,768 of these have populations below 5,000. Only ten have populations above 1 million and none are above 10 million. 310 cities are considered at least medium cities with populations of 100,000 or more.â
So roughly one per town, on average.
Interesting post about how Quebec is doing their âCOVID Passportâ with a QR code and signed JSON Web Tokens.
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Excellent subject. The code and crypto involved is way over my head, but the description of what is contained and can be revealed is really good.