Israel on Saturday said it would ban the entry of all foreigners into the country, making it the first country to shut its borders completely in response to a new and potentially more contagious coronavirus variant, and said it would use counter-terrorism phone-tracking technology in order to contain the spread of the Omicron variant.
"Our working hypotheses are that the variant is already in nearly every country," Interior Minister Ayelet Shaked told N12's "Meet the Press," "and that the vaccine is effective, although we don't yet know to what degree."
The Shin Bet counter-terrorism agency's phone-tracking technology will be used to locate carriers of the new variant in order to curb its transmission to others, Bennett said.
Used on and off since March 2020, the surveillance technology matched virus carriers' locations against other mobile phones nearby to determine with whom they had come into contact. Israel's Supreme Court this year limited the scope of its use after civil rights groups mounted challenges over privacy concerns.
Israel has so far confirmed one case of Omicron, with seven suspected cases. The Health Ministry has not said whether the confirmed case was vaccinated. Three of the seven suspected cases were fully vaccinated, the ministry said on Saturday, and three had not returned from travel abroad recently.
Cell phones are tracking devices.
Notice how governments justify tracking you? They simply say, "Oh, look. Johnny has a virus so we can access his phone to see everywhere he's been and who he's been in contact with."
Big Brother is watching you. But, no worries. It's for your own good. They just care about you.
Speaking of which, Omicron is the ADE variant. The one that primarily affects the vaccinated because the unvaxed didn't get vaccinated.
Nuclear weapons eliminated war, which created a vacuum that biological warfare (viruses) and social causes (BLM, feminism, homosexuality) are apparently going to fill.
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