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SerieZ:
We also just released our own Covid-App... which is voluntary... and may cause you to loose Income if you have to go quarantine because you were linked with someone who has had it without being sick yourself.
 :palm: :palm: :palm:

GeorgeOfTheJungle:

--- Quote from: EEVblog on June 25, 2020, 01:26:29 am ---Shame how on Apple iOS it doesn't work unless the app is on and in focus on the screen 100% of the time, which is how 0% of people use their phone.
That was one of the huge issues that made the Aussie tracing app useless.
There was talk that Apple had to release some sort or toolkit to allow it but had not done so last I heard.

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That's weird because when the phone is linked via BT with a device that's on, in range and connected (*), the MAC is visible and there's no way to avoid it IIANM.

On the other hand, if BT is enabled but there's no active BT connection, that's when the iPhones randomize the MAC to avoid being tracked, or at least that's what I've heard.

(*) Usually those white worms that pop out of the ears of all apple fanboyz.

DrG:
Not sure if everyone will get this short clip, but it is clever, I think. On the old TV sit-com Parks and Recreation, they had a reoccurring plot scenario of a town hall meeting where all these outrageous characters expressed themselves. That is what is going on here EXCEPT spliced in our actual scenes from a Town Hall Meeting where a face covering mandate was passed...in a county in Florida, a state that had almost 9000 new cases today.



and let me not forget my Brit friends, seen here, exemplifying both the need for wearing face coverings and social distancing:

https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/26/football/liverpool-fans-police-criticize-gathering-anfield-title-win-spt-intl/index.html

Yep, we got this thing licked!

maginnovision:
I thought we were still working under the assumption that everyone will catch it and we just want hospitals available for when people need them? If that's still the modus operandi then I don't see how new cases matter. We can have a million cases a day if they don't overwhelm the hospitals.

EEVblog:

--- Quote from: maginnovision on June 27, 2020, 03:34:07 am ---I thought we were still working under the assumption that everyone will catch it and we just want hospitals available for when people need them? If that's still the modus operandi then I don't see how new cases matter. We can have a million cases a day if they don't overwhelm the hospitals.
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Because it's a boogeyman, and people from all walks of life and the media and especially politicians have realised that fear gives them various powers, and people like power and being seen to "do things". And of course it can kill the elderly and other vulnerable people (just like the flu), so if you don't support all draconian measures to stop it then you must like people dying, obviously.
No one was thinking that when millions died of the flu every year, because, reasons...

My state NSW has single digit cases a day (and many zero days recently), yet it's still managed as if it's a crisis that will spiral out of control and infect everyone and kill X percent of those if it's not micro managed. This could go on for years. Open your borders and you are guaranteed a little spike again and the cycle repeats.

Most of the stuff was justified at the start because we knew very little about it, but as time goes on and we learn more, at some point we are just going to have to start treating this as just yet another seasonal flu type thing, otherwise we require that "new normal" society were no one shakes hands or hugs any more etc, and that's depressing. I don't see that happening in practice though, eventually people are just going to say "bugger it" and life will return to relative normality.
But yes, realistically it seems that everyone will eventually catch it whether they know it or not.
Quite some time back I tweeted about those "social distancing" floor stickers in shopping centres etc and pondered what we'll think in 20-30 years time if you find one in an old abandoned shopping mall and you think, "wow, remember back when social distancing was a thing!"

Of course, YMMV. Easy to say in a country that has had little impact from this of course.
I'm not sure about overseas, but here practically zero resources have been spent on protecting the vulnerable. All the effort seems to go into stopping Joe Average getting it. Seems arse backwards to me  :-//

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