While there might be some benefits of a digital ID, which will no doubt be presented, the fundamental problem in my view is that many of us no longer trust the governments that are proposing them. So, when they claim that there are only benefits and no downsides ... we simply don't believe them. Most of us were not previously inclined to be suspicious. Now we wonder what we are not being told ...
That is one of the (huge) costs of the Covid years for many people: the erosion of trust. It will take much longer to regain it than it has to lose it.
While there might be some benefits of a digital ID, which will no doubt be presented, the fundamental problem in my view is that many of us no longer trust the governments that are proposing them. So, when they claim that there are only benefits and no downsides ... we simply don't believe them. Most of us were not previously inclined to be suspicious. Now we wonder what we are not being told ...
That is one of the (huge) costs of the Covid years for many people: the erosion of trust. It will take much longer to regain it than it has to lose it.
I agree Barry.
When voluntary means doing what the Government wants because it's good for you, because the Government is the arbiter of truth.
Perhaps they will quote the following scripture to support themselves:
"We are of God. He who knows God hears us. The one who is not of God does not hear us. From this we know the spirit of truth and the spirit of error."
(1John 4:6)
Shocking isn't it. A nurse sent it to me. She was mortified.
Very paternalistic.