The European Commission has finally taken a serious step towards containing the pandemic. The latest news from Brussels suggests that the EC is already considering using cross-border mobile applications to track contacts as an effective measure to alert to and combat coronavirus and. These contact tracking and warning applications help break the chain of transmission of the infection. This already works in South Korea, which is among the most densely populated countries in the world, but compared to Bulgaria, for example, those infected with COVID 19 daily are many times lower in number.
The key is that the people there provide the authorities with information about themselves – it is known who went where and when. And thanks to the mobile app, tracking distributors and their contacts helps break circuits and isolate the infected. It is enough to own a barcode, which is scanned everywhere you go – at work, in the tax office, in a restaurant. And once a new outbreak is established, the authorities can find you by the barcode.
The EC's idea is similar. News from Brussels shows that a total of 19 national contact and alert applications have been developed in EU member states so far, which have been downloaded over 52 million times.The problem is that they are not linked over the whole territory of the union. The idea is to do this through the European Federation Portal Service so that applications become interoperable.
The only problem that is likely to sabotage the idea is the inability to raise the level of public awareness, that is, people's willingness to provide information to the authorities. This is possible in South Korea and China for the simple reason that in this region of the world Asian collectivism is characteristic. This is a completely different culture on the basis of which public relations are built.
I'd like to see the face of dear Ursula von der Leyen as she explains to a fellow countryman that he needs to provide the authorities with all the information concerning his whereabouts. In Tran, in such cases, they say: you have a say but don’t you dare to. And the human rights and freedoms and personal data advocates will send Ursula directly to the European Court of Justice in Strasbourg. The idea of the Commissioners may be accepted in Europe, but hardly may it pass in BG. There is no power here to make every Bulgarian put on his mask as the main protective device, let alone voluntarily download an app with which he can be tracked, because in the 21st century this territory is still populated by wild Balkan subjects, although each of them is tickling on their expensive mobile phone. And if you make a remark to such a guy that he didn't put on a mask, you don't know what might happen to you.
As Vaptsarov once wrote: Life is a snarling ferocious dog with no mask and makeup on.
