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| SiliconWizard:
--- Quote from: langwadt on March 23, 2020, 02:33:07 pm ---Here the government research institute that deals with infectious diseases and the likes is asking to collect all location data from the phone companies to evaluate how well the "stay at home" works. --- End quote --- Why not. Although I guess if this is made public, people will know they are traced. And those not willing to really comply/or fearing they might get in trouble being traced could just leave their phones home and get out... |
| Zero999:
--- Quote from: dunkemhigh on March 23, 2020, 02:12:09 pm --- --- Quote ---Covid-19 testing and contact tracing are recommended by the world health organisation, have been implemented by China and South Korea ... --- End quote --- Isn't it a numbers game? That is, you can do it if the numbers are low enough that you can achieve it, but once they get too high you can't possibly trace them all and then have to assume it's anyone. In China they isolated everyone so anyone that had it has had it by now, and anyone that isn't suffering doesn't have it. Now they can do contact tracing and make a difference because the numbers are manageable. Don't know about Germany. If they are contact tracing how do we know it's working if their numbers are still going up? --- End quote --- Yes, there's a limit to the numbers, but it has been proven to be helpful in other countries with a larger number of cases than the UK. |
| SilverSolder:
--- Quote from: SiliconWizard on March 23, 2020, 02:38:10 pm --- --- Quote from: langwadt on March 23, 2020, 02:33:07 pm ---Here the government research institute that deals with infectious diseases and the likes is asking to collect all location data from the phone companies to evaluate how well the "stay at home" works. --- End quote --- Why not. Although I guess if this is made public, people will know they are traced. And those not willing to really comply/or fearing they might get in trouble being traced could just leave their phones home and get out... --- End quote --- Very few young people appear to be able to survive for more than a few milliseconds without their phone... |
| james_s:
I know seniors who are just as glued to their phone as kids. They are addictive devices, though useful. The difference with kids is that they never knew life without mobile phones. |
| SiliconWizard:
--- Quote from: SilverSolder on March 23, 2020, 06:41:49 pm --- --- Quote from: SiliconWizard on March 23, 2020, 02:38:10 pm --- --- Quote from: langwadt on March 23, 2020, 02:33:07 pm ---Here the government research institute that deals with infectious diseases and the likes is asking to collect all location data from the phone companies to evaluate how well the "stay at home" works. --- End quote --- Why not. Although I guess if this is made public, people will know they are traced. And those not willing to really comply/or fearing they might get in trouble being traced could just leave their phones home and get out... --- End quote --- Very few young people appear to be able to survive for more than a few milliseconds without their phone... --- End quote --- Good point. Those that have been seen to comply the least so far tend to be young people, and unless they were really ill-intentioned and wanted to hide their movements, they are likely to have their phones at all times. You can't completely rule out ill-intentioned people though... |
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