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TWikiGuestJournal 4 - 25 Feb 2021 - Main.NevfelAkkasoglu
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Hi all, testing my first journal entry here. I'm currently quarantined in my room in Bahrain. The government here locked down the country after only 20 cases were reported. We are now at around 400 cases and the situation looks like it's under control. While I am always eerie about centralized power, one cannot deny its efficiency in times like these.

TWikiGuestJournal 3 - 01 Apr 2020 - Main.SalmanAlmutawa
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Hi all, testing my first journal entry here. I'm currently quarantined in my room in Bahrain. The government here locked down the country after only 20 cases were reported. We are now at around 400 cases and the situation looks like it's under control. While I am always eerie about centralized power, one cannot deny its efficiency in times like these.
 
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>		I have been thinking often of how people's lives will change once this pandemic is over. Since many governments are requiring that their citizens share their live locations at all times, will people become more conscious of the fact that their phones spy on them? Will they be more reluctant to share details of their intimate lives on the internet, knowing that they are - or at least could be - watched? I hope that there could be some silver-lining in all this mayhem.
 
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Journal Entry 1 -

Apologies, my first journal entry will be light on academic material and will serve more as an update of my status. Due to the developing covid-19 virus situation, the organisation sponsoring my studies had asked that I return to Singapore. As a number of airlines have been cancelling flights due to the increasing travel restrictions, this forced me to accelerate my travel plans over the last 3 days to catch the last Singapore Airlines flight out of NYC. Long story short, I just arrived in Singapore today and should be able to return my attention back to studies shortly (albeit at a different time zone).

An interesting observation which may be of relevance to the class is how Singapore has turned to technology to help contain its own virus spread. One method is through requests by officers to persons who are on stay home quarantine to share their location on watsapp. Another method is through the voluntary download of a tracing application, which uses bluetooth to maintain a record of nearby devices in order to help with subsequent contact tracing in the event the user of one of the devices is subsequently confirmed as a carrier.

 
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TWikiGuestJournal 2 - 25 Mar 2020 - Main.JakeTaylor
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-- PaulLie - 25 Mar 2020

Journal Entry 1 -

Apologies, my first journal entry will be light on academic material and will serve more as an update of my status. Due to the developing covid-19 virus situation, the organisation sponsoring my studies had asked that I return to Singapore. As a number of airlines have been cancelling flights due to the increasing travel restrictions, this forced me to accelerate my travel plans over the last 3 days to catch the last Singapore Airlines flight out of NYC. Long story short, I just arrived in Singapore today and should be able to return my attention back to studies shortly (albeit at a different time zone).

An interesting observation which may be of relevance to the class is how Singapore has turned to technology to help contain its own virus spread. One method is through requests by officers to persons who are on stay home quarantine to share their location on watsapp. Another method is through the voluntary download of a tracing application, which uses bluetooth to maintain a record of nearby devices in order to help with subsequent contact tracing in the event the user of one of the devices is subsequently confirmed as a carrier.

 
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Revision 4r4 - 25 Feb 2021 - 15:01:04 - NevfelAkkasoglu
Revision 3r3 - 01 Apr 2020 - 06:58:14 - SalmanAlmutawa
Revision 2r2 - 25 Mar 2020 - 23:25:53 - JakeTaylor
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