March 2021, exactly one year after Covid started and they told us it would be “over after two weeks of lockdown”, was the first time I was denied entry into a shop because I did not sign in with a “contact-tracing app”. The talk I had with the staffer was amusing: “I don’t have the tracing app” Staffer: “Then you can’t come in” “If I don’t own a phone, I can’t shop here?” Staffer (robotically)...
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