Trade Me founder Sam Morgan and Animation Research boss Ian Taylor have made impassioned pleas for the Government to bite the bullet and issue a Bluetooth Covid tracing card to all New Zealanders.
But Morgan said that if the Government made a decision now on issuing CovidCards to New Zealanders at a cost of about $100 million, it could make future outbreaks possible to manage.
“After this lockdown it would be good to have a CovidCard as it may enable us to prevent ‘lockdown 3’, which is really what we have been positioning for.
“If a CovidCard had been deployed in advance of this situation you would be able to traverse the infection tree upwards to find out where they got it from, and downwards to see who they had given it to.”
"The battery-powered cards would be registered to an individual and would record when another card came within five metres.
The cards would not need to record where people went ... "
-- Notice they say "need". It wouldn't need to, but it could... meaning it would.
We can do this, but we can't have Voter ID?
--- New Zealand is a VERY interesting place, jftr.
But Morgan said that if the Government made a decision now on issuing CovidCards to New Zealanders at a cost of about $100 million, it could make future outbreaks possible to manage.
“After this lockdown it would be good to have a CovidCard as it may enable us to prevent ‘lockdown 3’, which is really what we have been positioning for.
“If a CovidCard had been deployed in advance of this situation you would be able to traverse the infection tree upwards to find out where they got it from, and downwards to see who they had given it to.”
"The battery-powered cards would be registered to an individual and would record when another card came within five metres.
The cards would not need to record where people went ... "
-- Notice they say "need". It wouldn't need to, but it could... meaning it would.
We can do this, but we can't have Voter ID?
--- New Zealand is a VERY interesting place, jftr.
