In Australia, an app is about to be released that theoretically could help with contract tracing. Now, before everyone puts on allfoil hats - all it does is record the app details of other phones within bluetooth (1.5 m ) range for over 15 minutes. This data is then stored JUST ON THE PHONE , and encrypted so the user can't find out who that cute person they've been stalking is. Data is wiped at 2 weeks, no geo location data kept.
Nothing uploaded to anywhere until you get diagnosed with covid, at which stage the encrypted data can be uploaded by the covid tracing health authorities and anyone smart enough to have had the app can be warned they are potentially exposed.
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Have we not moved on in the past 200 + years? Many of our lives are MORE free due to improved security.
In Australia, an app is about to be released that theoretically could help with contract tracing. Now, before everyone puts on allfoil hats - all it does is record the app details of other phones within bluetooth (1.5 m ) range for over 15 minutes. This data is then stored JUST ON THE PHONE , and encrypted so the user can't find out who that cute person they've been stalking is. Data is wiped at 2 weeks, no geo location data kept.
Nothing uploaded to anywhere until you get diagnosed with covid, at which stage the encrypted data can be uploaded by the covid tracing health authorities and anyone smart enough to have had the app can be warned they are potentially exposed.
It us completely voluntary to have the app - but you get warned if you've spent 15 minutes clise enough to a covid spreader to now be at risk.
Soooo.....if we get universal use of the app and try to maintain social distancing - there is a very real chance that we can hit covid HARD. As a nation , we're down to 35-50 new cases a day , that's right - just double digits. oh, and we're doing a LOT of swabs now so whilst that's not perfect data, it's a reasonable indication of why we are managing just 3 deaths per million population . We're going to have a LOT more freedom when daily infection rates get to zero.
ps , all this talk about death rates - we really need to start thinking about morbidity - living with punched out lungs or floppy ineffective hearts, stroke victims from prolonged poor oxygen supply , or family members grieving after their children / spouses / siblings die. Workers who never return after months of work in fear / exhaustion. Death is only a very small part if the social cost of this pandemic, and measuring economics against just a death rate is short sighted
to have the app - but you get warned if you've spent 15 minutes clise enough to a covid spreader to now be at risk.
Soooo.....if we get universal use of the app and try to maintain social distancing - there is a very real chance that we can hit covid HARD. As a nation , we're down to 35-50 new cases a day , that's right - just double digits. oh, and we're doing a LOT of swabs now so whilst that's not perfect data, it's a reasonable indication of why we are managing just 3 deaths per million population . We're going to have a LOT more freedom when daily infection rates get to zero.
ps , all this talk about death rates - we really need to start thinking about morbidity - living with punched out lungs or floppy ineffective hearts, stroke victims from prolonged poor oxygen supply , or family members grieving after their children / spouses / siblings die. Workers who never return after months of work in fear / exhaustion. Death is only a very small part if the social cost of this pandemic, and measuring economics against just a death rate is short sighted
Why should they be havin' all the fun?
