With governments around the world clearly having no realistic exit strategies for the COVID-19 lockdowns, tech companies are piling in to make a bad situation worse.

After Malta-based Chiliz revealed it is developing a blockchain-based system to allow fans to “prove their immunity” and attend football matches again, Oracle has now partnered with Vottun to release a digital health passport, which it says will allow employees to go back to work.

The “Immunity Passport” developed by Vottun is said to record your immunity status on the blockchain, allowing it to be easily checked by authorities by scanning a QR code.

Spain, which has been one of the countries hardest-hit by COVID-19, is already rolling out the system in partnership with PwC, while Vottun has said is has been talking with authorities in the United States too.

AYO.NEWS says:

This madness needs to stop now. Tech companies are understandably enthusiastic about the technology, but there is far more at stake here, and it seems they are all missing the big picture.

As we have argued previously, this technology will absolutely create a two-tier segregated society in which only those ‘approved’ by authorities are allowed to re-join society. This is opening the door to digital ghettoization or apartheid.

No one can argue the COVID-19 (coronavirus) is not having a terrible impact, but it seems people are losing all perspective and rationality. The lockdowns have already ensured the biggest economic calamity since the Great Depression, and if they go on longer they are sure to lead to mass social issues in many places. This will all lead to FAR more deaths in the long-run, than the virus could have ever inflicted.

But, trying to fix this by creating some sort of 1984 or Gattaca-style dystopia is utter madness. What is the point in fighting this “war” against the virus, if the society we are left with has forsaken everything millions have fought, and died, defending across generations, including World War 2?

Of course, there are a myriad of other reasons why this system is madness too, including the fact tests are not reliable, there is growing evidence that being infected and recovering does not make you immune, the virus is rapidly mutating, and it will obviously cause people to TRY and get infected so they can resume their lives.

Lockdowns could have worked in small areas, if they had been implemented early enough. However, politicians in every country refused to see reality and procrastinated. Now they have implemented them, utterly destroying many millions of lives for the foreseeable future. Now, we have tech companies jumping on the bandwagon, claiming to offer a way out, but actually just opening the doors to an even worse nightmare.

I’m with John McAfee on this one.

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