The Los Angeles Unified School District recently launched “Daily Pass,” an app designed to coordinate health checks, COVID tests and vaccinations for a safe reopening of schools… according to LAUSD. The school district’s Safe Steps to Safe Schools program “is working with a group of stakeholders and partners who are experts in their respective fields to conduct regular COVID-19 testing and community engagement for employees and students.”
LAUSD, the second largest school district in the country, appears to be a Microsoft beta-site. Expect this to come to all California public school districts.
The creepy little animated video announcing the program looks and sounds as if George Orwell wrote it.
California is a dystopian nightmare. pic.twitter.com/5nWEarQNoa
— Phetasy (@BridgetPhetasy) March 1, 2021
“Leave it to California to come up with something less comforting than the Chinese anal swab tests…” a Tweet replied.
But not everyone is comfortable with testing and barcoding kids and turning over the data to “a group of stakeholders.”
LAUSD Superintendent Austin Beutner described the Daily Pass as “sort of like the golden ticket in ‘Willy Wonka,’ everyone with this pass can easily get into a school building,” during his weekly update on Feb. 22.
The “show me your papers” program, “developed with support…
Read the full story here: Source: LAUSD Adopts Microsoft ‘Daily Pass’ Program Bar Coding Kids For School Reopening – California Globe