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 Matt Swain wrote:


Before anyone says "But its just for the duration of the crisis!!!" I'll point out it's been 19 years since 911 and we still have the patriot act, FISA, gitmo, etc. Once the system gets a new power it never lets go of it.



I am glad you pointed out that these actual erosions of our rights are still in force and on the books. Yet, more people went out and protest wearing a mask as totalitarianism then have protested actual surveillance state policies.

i am sure there is an appropriate meme or gif to apply here.... but all I got for it today is this.....



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 Matt Swain wrote:
One thing I see is a few stores just a few, for now, declaring a no cash policy.

Ok, I'm sure it's "policy", I'm sure they have "reasons" for it, and that's all fine. I wont shop at them.

I use a card often, by choice. If they try to make it mandatory, forget it.In a cashless society you can't buy a stick of gum without leaving a record and i just don't want 'the system' to have that kind of big brother omniscience.

Before anyone says "But its just for the duration of the crisis!!!" I'll point out it's been 19 years since 911 and we still have the patriot act, FISA, gitmo, etc. Once the system gets a new power it never lets go of it.


Not taking cash is to reduce contact between you and the member of staff, no inverted commas needed. It's a policy with good reason for it. No government is going to need to make cashless payment mandatory, it'll be the stores who will slowly begin to phase out cash payments for their convenience. There will come a time, probably in our lifetimes when you'll have to go out of your way to find somewhere that takes cash. At the moment though, it is just part of the distancing, keeping people from touching too many things that others have touched.
   
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Shops were already pushing cashless transcations as were the banks. All those branches closing; all those cash machines getting overused because there's fewer and fewer around. All the safety measures. Heck online trading alone accounts for a huge shift.


I agree we will reach a time where cash is generally only used as a "novelty" at markets, bring and buy etc.... Even many of them I can see adapting in time. When everyone has a phone with tehir paypal wired to it they can effortlessly (even today) simply pay someone via an email address at a stall provided they've reception for the net.

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In the U.K. at least, there are also pretty solid protections to be had from using card over cash.

If someone bonks me on the head, and lifts £50 out my wallet? It’s gone.

If someone bonks me on the head, lifts my debit card and then spends using Contactless? I get my money back - provided I can reasonably demonstrate I was bonked on the head (Police Reports are useful here, and you can bet I’d be getting the Police involved if such a thing happened)

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 Easy E wrote:
 Matt Swain wrote:


Before anyone says "But its just for the duration of the crisis!!!" I'll point out it's been 19 years since 911 and we still have the patriot act, FISA, gitmo, etc. Once the system gets a new power it never lets go of it.



I am glad you pointed out that these actual erosions of our rights are still in force and on the books. Yet, more people went out and protest wearing a mask as totalitarianism then have protested actual surveillance state policies.

i am sure there is an appropriate meme or gif to apply here.... but all I got for it today is this.....




Go back about 100 pages, everyone laughed at my concerns of over policing and creeping authoritarianism.

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Ironically, at the start of the crisis I withdrew £250 in cash.It's still in my wallet unspent. It doesn't help that most British banknotes are plastic, which is one of the best surfaces for the virus to survive on. Up to three days, some of the science says.

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 Kilkrazy wrote:
For instance, the death rate caused by lung disease due to traffic pollution must have declined. That's potential guidance for planning future transportation.


Well, that death type specifically probably not. Lung disease caused by traffic pollution is kind of a long term thing. Letting up the pollution for a couple months would have a minuscule effect on the death rate. If someone with pollution based lung disease was going to die last month, their condition would probably have been extremely critical for at least the last year. Not to mention having a lung disease puts you in the Coronavirus risk category anyway.

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 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
In the U.K. at least, there are also pretty solid protections to be had from using card over cash.



I remember my early internet purchases were all done on a credit card because it was the only way to get "proper internet protection." Fastforward to today and most debit cards have similar levels of online protection. Plus there's paypal who offer their own protections. If anything the system, UK side at least, favours the customer quite considerably. The greater threats are really people who buy from obviously dodgy websites or when a website gets bank detail stolen from them. Though, of course, banks are well setup to protect against such measures.

Government doesn't need to outlaw money; convenience and safety and the market will push money out of general use and into cash-in-hand market sectors only.

Of course this also means that banks become even more heavily reliant on government bailouts should they falter. Perhaps even moving toward a government that might have to consider being able to freeze a specific banks UK held accounts and then having the government honour the money if the bank falls under. Since with digital money if your bank starts to die or dies you can't really have savings held in a mattress.



The hardest hit will be charities who rely heavily on those spare change boxes. Though I'm sure they will find new ways to adapt to the market (even things like Humble Bundle come to mind as means that charities can tap into all the more to help generate income for themselves.

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Little surprised anyone uses cash TBH, I go months without using generally.

Don't be surprised if things like public transport stay entirely cashless -- think most of London already is IIRC.





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My area is quite backwards with regards to cashless, things. It can hinder you a lot tbh.
   
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 queen_annes_revenge wrote:
 Easy E wrote:
 Matt Swain wrote:


Before anyone says "But its just for the duration of the crisis!!!" I'll point out it's been 19 years since 911 and we still have the patriot act, FISA, gitmo, etc. Once the system gets a new power it never lets go of it.



I am glad you pointed out that these actual erosions of our rights are still in force and on the books. Yet, more people went out and protest wearing a mask as totalitarianism then have protested actual surveillance state policies.

i am sure there is an appropriate meme or gif to apply here.... but all I got for it today is this.....



Go back about 100 pages, everyone laughed at my concerns of over policing and creeping authoritarianism.



I think you missed my point.

The big civil liberty erosions happened circa 2001 and no one is doing anything about it now to roll them back. But now they are suddenly concerned about civil liberties!

I am not sure I can appropriately convey what I am getting at.

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Somewhere in south-central England.

In London you can use any contactless card to ping in and out of busses and tubes.

You can still use an Oyster card and charge it at a machine which accepts cash.

I expect you can pay cash if you actually go to the ticket booth, and want to buy a paper ticket.

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My old man only uses cash. It's something I try to do but it's difficult now.

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 Grey Templar wrote:
 Kilkrazy wrote:
For instance, the death rate caused by lung disease due to traffic pollution must have declined. That's potential guidance for planning future transportation.


Well, that death type specifically probably not. Lung disease caused by traffic pollution is kind of a long term thing. Letting up the pollution for a couple months would have a minuscule effect on the death rate. If someone with pollution based lung disease was going to die last month, their condition would probably have been extremely critical for at least the last year. Not to mention having a lung disease puts you in the Coronavirus risk category anyway.


Yes, you're right. It was a bad example to pick. Something like the decline in road traffic deaths would have been a better one.

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I mean...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-52849560

A pilot flew from Surrey to Anglesey on the Spring Bank Holiday "to go to the beach", a report has revealed.

The man flew from Fairoaks Airport to RAF Valley, a military base near the Welsh coast, on 25 May.

It was closed for maintenance work and security staff believed he had made an emergency landing.

However, he told them "he had flown from London to go to the beach", according to details in a Defence Aviation Safety Occurrence Report.

When told about lockdown and coronavirus restrictions in Wales, he is reported to have told them "it was okay, because he had [the virus] two months ago".


The report lists events involving planes and said the aircraft called the control tower at 12:50 then landed on runway 19 and parked adjacent to the beach.

"The fire section noted the aircraft and responded, thinking the aircraft was in distress. The pilot informed the crew manager he had flown from London to go to the beach."

He told them he found the airfield on Google Earth and decided to land there as Wikipedia said it served civilian traffic. He left shortly after landing.

An RAF spokesman said: "The RAF can confirm that on 25 May a civilian PC-12 aircraft landed on a closed runway at RAF Valley without permission.

"Whilst irregular, it was assessed that there was no threat to station personnel or the wider public. The incident has been reported to the Civil Aviation Authority."

The Ministry of Defence said while civilian aircraft are allowed at its sites, 24 hours notice is required to make sure this does not impact on military activity.

But because it was closed, there was no "immediate danger" to RAF aircraft.


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 reds8n wrote:


Little surprised anyone uses cash TBH, I go months without using generally.



A topic worthy of its own thread, certainly?
As I rarely go without cash.
Not only do I think it's much more convenient for small transactions, I also travel a lot, and don't always have instant connection to the internet when I arrive somewhere and simply need cash in order to pay for anything. Never mind when I'm working offshore and want get something from the bond store onboard.

It also helps my wife and I to budget much more effectively, as with electronic payment it's much too easy to spend more than you intend to.


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 Kilkrazy wrote:


Yes, you're right. It was a bad example to pick. Something like the decline in road traffic deaths would have been a better one.


Funny you should say that. I read an article the other day that said that road accident deaths had not gone down during the corona lockdown in the Netherlands despite there being significantly less traffic on the roads.

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 Easy E wrote:
 Matt Swain wrote:


Before anyone says "But its just for the duration of the crisis!!!" I'll point out it's been 19 years since 911 and we still have the patriot act, FISA, gitmo, etc. Once the system gets a new power it never lets go of it.



I am glad you pointed out that these actual erosions of our rights are still in force and on the books. Yet, more people went out and protest wearing a mask as totalitarianism then have protested actual surveillance state policies.

i am sure there is an appropriate meme or gif to apply here.... but all I got for it today is this.....


I can see why someone would draw that comparison, but examining it further quickly makes it apparent that those instances and what we are dealing with now are completely different.

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Bran Dawri wrote:
 reds8n wrote:


Little surprised anyone uses cash TBH, I go months without using generally.



A topic worthy of its own thread, certainly?
As I rarely go without cash.
Not only do I think it's much more convenient for small transactions, I also travel a lot, and don't always have instant connection to the internet when I arrive somewhere and simply need cash in order to pay for anything. Never mind when I'm working offshore and want get something from the bond store onboard.

It also helps my wife and I to budget much more effectively, as with electronic payment it's much too easy to spend more than you intend to.


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 Kilkrazy wrote:


Yes, you're right. It was a bad example to pick. Something like the decline in road traffic deaths would have been a better one.


Funny you should say that. I read an article the other day that said that road accident deaths had not gone down during the corona lockdown in the Netherlands despite there being significantly less traffic on the roads.


Cops in several UK regions reporting the same today. Essentially saying that people finding themselves on quiet roads have been driving like clowns and many have crashed.
   
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That in itself is a worthwhile insight.

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 Matt Swain wrote:
Before anyone says "But its just for the duration of the crisis!!!" I'll point out it's been 19 years since 911 and we still have the patriot act, FISA, gitmo, etc. Once the system gets a new power it never lets go of it.


I'm not disagreeing with the basic premise of what you are saying, but the nitpicker in me simply could not resist pointing out FISA way predates 9/11 - it was passed in 1978.

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nfe wrote:
Bran Dawri wrote:
 reds8n wrote:


Little surprised anyone uses cash TBH, I go months without using generally.



A topic worthy of its own thread, certainly?
As I rarely go without cash.
Not only do I think it's much more convenient for small transactions, I also travel a lot, and don't always have instant connection to the internet when I arrive somewhere and simply need cash in order to pay for anything. Never mind when I'm working offshore and want get something from the bond store onboard.

It also helps my wife and I to budget much more effectively, as with electronic payment it's much too easy to spend more than you intend to.


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 Kilkrazy wrote:


Yes, you're right. It was a bad example to pick. Something like the decline in road traffic deaths would have been a better one.


Funny you should say that. I read an article the other day that said that road accident deaths had not gone down during the corona lockdown in the Netherlands despite there being significantly less traffic on the roads.


Cops in several UK regions reporting the same today. Essentially saying that people finding themselves on quiet roads have been driving like clowns and many have crashed.

This is true. I went northern CA the other week to go do some training in a SNF (I'm talking from Silicon Valley area to like half an hour above Sac for those in CA) and there were plenty of people getting pulled over for speeding. Off one exit I saw a guy going like 95MPH and almost ran into a car. There was hardly anyone going that direction though.

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It was announced today that NZ is down to a single case of Corona and there have been zero infections in the past week. Seems that lockdown was pretty damn efficient here thanks to how early and thoroughly it was enforced, some emergency measures are still in place for at least another month just to make sure.

On cashless payments, that has been a thing here for years with tap and go (including phones and watches) being accept pretty much everywhere, including street vendors.

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It is probably better to keep things closed until we have a vaccine rather than opening back up for a few days then having to close again immediately due to a new outbreak.
   
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Which brings us to the question, what if there isn't a vaccine... Again.


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I mean, it could be the case that these countries who suqashed it all early have merely postponed their spikes and are just getting what we've had now they've reopened.

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 queen_annes_revenge wrote:
Which brings us to the question, what if there isn't a vaccine... Again.


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I mean, it could be the case that these countries who suqashed it all early have merely postponed their spikes and are just getting what we've had now they've reopened.


Or, hear me out, they implement a system of as few contacts with infected and people of infected countries as possible and we as a species further squash it in regions that are easily insulated due to geography, like other island nations.

Of course that would take alot of time and effort, especially when we get the island nations out of the way first but at this stage , if there were indeed no vaccine then i don't see any other way.

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Given more time and organisation (and a kick up the backside for some governments) and we could, in theory, wipe it out through a global track and trace program. The big hurdle isn't just organising it and ensuring enough resources; its preventing some countries from simply thrusting their head in the sand and ignoring the issue or not caring. Plus there's a lot of nations that are just not stable nor structured to really enact a proper track and trace of their population.

Even developed nations have issues and they've got generally stable government and effective infrastructure and education.


Thing is, as we are seeing from countries with effective lockdowns relaxing them; all it takes is one single person to spark off a whole new wave. Unless you've got a fast and effective tracing system then little hot-spots like that can be a nightmare to contain. Much as we might dislike it the whole "app that tracks your movements" is likely the only effective way to manage it for populations of the size we deal with today.


If you don't have that then there have to be other ways to monitor individuals entering things like public transport and public places. It's one thing to know someone at work had it and you've got to isolate - the issue is that 30min commute in the morning by train; or that 5 mins you pop into a shop to grab a bottle of water that you honestly won't even remember you did later that day let alone 7 days later when the infected person might be detected and the tracing starts to take effect.

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 queen_annes_revenge wrote:
Which brings us to the question, what if there isn't a vaccine... Again.



Then we should continue to isolate and quarantine... again.

Nothing has changed about that answer.
   
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so, nothing feasible then. cool. You just going to stay cooped up in your house until you die of old age?

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