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.
Wow! That Kimberwalli ATSI initiative is a whole other level of despicable! Utterly shameful behaviour on the part of so-called health services (although I'm not sure why I'm still surprised).
It sure is, and I can imagine she was. I was horrified at the time that they were aggressively targetting Aboriginal communities in the Territory and strongly suspected there were underhanded tactics going, but this is the most blatant specific 'incentive' I have seen. Honestly, it makes me sick. And it's bad enough that they did it, but the fact that they were (and perhaps continue to be) so self-righteous about it is staggering.
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.
Wow! That Kimberwalli ATSI initiative is a whole other level of despicable! Utterly shameful behaviour on the part of so-called health services (although I'm not sure why I'm still surprised).
Shocking isn't it. A nurse sent it to me. She was mortified.
It sure is, and I can imagine she was. I was horrified at the time that they were aggressively targetting Aboriginal communities in the Territory and strongly suspected there were underhanded tactics going, but this is the most blatant specific 'incentive' I have seen. Honestly, it makes me sick. And it's bad enough that they did it, but the fact that they were (and perhaps continue to be) so self-righteous about it is staggering.
Very paternalistic.
Yes, absolutely.
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)