CDC Wants to Track Travelers

gearspring writes "According to Government Health IT the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention wants your email address, your mobile phone number, names of your traveling companions, your name, your address, and your emergency contacts name, address, and phone number. This information would be gathered by airlines, travel agents, and online reservation systems for all travelers. Their goal is to protect us in the event of a pandemic. The SARS crisis showed them the difficulty of notifying people that they may have been exposed to a disease. It is a noble goal, but couldn't they do this anonymously?"

Comments

Homeless?

[Hatta]

That's easy, I'm homeless and have no friends. Maybe I'm not, but how are they going to know?
No address, no contacts, no email, no phone. Are you going to deny someone travel because they can't afford these things? Or choose not to have them?

Re:Homeless?

[Nato_Uno]

Yes, you can be denied travel for not having an address, etc. No address or contact info will almost certainly result in no government issued ID. No government issued ID, no travel.

For more details, see:
      http://cryptome.org/freetotravel.htm

Unfortunately....

[Ex-MislTech]

Mr. Bush has already made his intentions clear .

He has publicly stated if a pandemic strikes there will be martial law, and
the national guard, state police, local police, and "other" authorities will
block "all" travel .

My quetion to this is , who is gonna stop the birds from flying around ???

Want to take that to a WHOLE new level ???

http://www.scienceblog.com/cms/node/8788

Remember the civet cat and Sars ???? Oh my, guess what .

This virus is changing, and it is not done changing .

http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn8372

If this thing becomes transmitible to the common house cat, killing and eating birds in
every city that has alley cats . We got ourselves a recipe for a bad situation .

Another point of this strain that is being missed is the mortality rate so far .

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php?ne wsid=5596

If this thing kicks off at anywhere near this supposed 75%, it will be worse than the plague .

Some current numbers put it under 50% and lets hope it becomes less deadly as it mutates .

Keep in mind the 1918 pandemic was 2 - 5%, and not with modern medicine .

This has the potential for a major catastrophe .

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_flu

20 - 50 million world wide died in a time before widespread food shipment and travel .

A pandemic has reoccured with regularity every few decades, but this is shaping up to be
the deadliest in modern times if the mortality rates are anywhere near what they are now .

I hope all countries around the world take this VERY seriously .

Ex-MislTech