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Re: CoronaNotify – Get Notified When the Coronavirus Is Near

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Post by dessant » Thu, Feb 27, 2020, 5:31 AM UTC

asdfasgasdgasdg wrote: post #19

dessant wrote: post #18

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Yes, ashamed. Prefer? This is not the time to have preferences, but regardless, there are official sources that send you notifications. You will know when the virus is near you before the operator of this service has a chance to update their data. The service is useless and any minimal false sense of security it gives could harm people by making them a bit less likely to follow official information sources and to pre…

> there are official sources that send you notifications. Feel free to link them. Brief googling didn't turn up any for me.

It depends on the country, in the US you should subscribe to CDC alerts and follow the news.

https://www.cdc.gov/publichealthgateway/healthalerts/index.h...

In South Korea people get emergency alerts on their phones whenever they enter an area that is affected.

This strategy may be used by other countries too in the near future, so check if emergency alerts are configured on your phone.

Re: CoronaNotify – Get Notified When the Coronavirus Is Near

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Post by CameronNemo » Thu, Feb 27, 2020, 5:47 AM UTC

Cyph0n wrote: post #13

CameronNemo wrote: post #8

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I recently learned that single words are considered valid email addresses... e.g. "foo" or "root".

Isn’t that how mail gets routed to local user mailboxes?

Yes, exactly. I just never expected an email parser to recognize those cases.

Re: CoronaNotify – Get Notified When the Coronavirus Is Near

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Post by asdfasgasdgasdg » Thu, Feb 27, 2020, 5:47 AM UTC

dessant wrote: post #21

asdfasgasdgasdg wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> there are official sources that send you notifications. Feel free to link them. Brief googling didn't turn up any for me.

It depends on the country, in the US you should subscribe to CDC alerts and follow the news. https://www.cdc.gov/publichealthgateway/healthalerts/index.h... In South Korea people get emergency alerts on their phones whenever they enter an area that is affected. This strategy may be used by other countries too in the near future, so check if emergency alerts are configured on your phone.

Which one of those will tell me when covid 19 is in my city and not bother me otherwise? Supposing I'm not willing to bet that my government will be operating with the efficiency of South Korea's, I mean.

Re: CoronaNotify – Get Notified When the Coronavirus Is Near

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Post by AstralStorm » Thu, Feb 27, 2020, 12:22 PM UTC

asdfasgasdgasdg wrote: post #23

dessant wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It depends on the country, in the US you should subscribe to CDC alerts and follow the news. https://www.cdc.gov/publichealthgateway/healthalerts/index.h... In South Korea people get emergency alerts on their phones whenever they enter an area that is affected. This strategy may be used by other countries too in the near future, so check if emergency alerts are configured on your phone.

Which one of those will tell me when covid 19 is in my city and not bother me otherwise? Supposing I'm not willing to bet that my government will be operating with the efficiency of South Korea's, I mean.

If there's no official data, the service won't have it either.