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Re: Get alerted to COVID-19 exposure

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This is vital if we are to move past coronavirus. It took longer than it should have to make this available, but everyone has a responsibility to install the app for their specific country. (The privacy solution is very clever. The most common criticism is health departments complaining that they want more information so they can trace outbreaks.)

It's a fairly good design, but I don't think it has proven very effective so far, at least in Switzerland, as the installed base is not large enough to make much of an impact.

Re: Get alerted to COVID-19 exposure

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post #5

This is vital if we are to move past coronavirus. It took longer than it should have to make this available, but everyone has a responsibility to install the app for their specific country. (The privacy solution is very clever. The most common criticism is health departments complaining that they want more information so they can trace outbreaks.)

Contact tracing is perfect for something like venereal disease.

For a highly contagious airborne respiratory virus, not so much. It's also far too pandemic anyway.

Re: Get alerted to COVID-19 exposure

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post #5

This is vital if we are to move past coronavirus. It took longer than it should have to make this available, but everyone has a responsibility to install the app for their specific country. (The privacy solution is very clever. The most common criticism is health departments complaining that they want more information so they can trace outbreaks.)

Nope. I refuse to participate.

Why?

Re: Get alerted to COVID-19 exposure

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post #5

This is vital if we are to move past coronavirus. It took longer than it should have to make this available, but everyone has a responsibility to install the app for their specific country. (The privacy solution is very clever. The most common criticism is health departments complaining that they want more information so they can trace outbreaks.)

No, it's not vital. At all. Contact tracing IS great and very effective in early stages of a pandemic, but THIS isn't an effective way to scale it. You're not going to walk it back at this point with this particular technology.

These sort of things are a good supplement if you have effective contact tracing, but yeah, it's definitely not a substitute.
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