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PlainName:

--- Quote ---They should make it so if you are in close proximity to somebody else for too long your
phone generates an annoyingly loud coughing sound
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That would be an excellent wheeze if it could be done reliably  :-+


--- Quote ---Black line is daily new cases.
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Thanks. Looks good!
coppice:

--- Quote from: dunkemhigh on April 26, 2020, 11:50:45 am ---
--- Quote ---They should make it so if you are in close proximity to somebody else for too long your
phone generates an annoyingly loud coughing sound
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That would be an excellent wheeze if it could be done reliably  :-+

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If the phone makes an excellent wheeze, that would be a more subtle approach than making it cough.  :)
SiliconWizard:

--- Quote from: Muttley Snickers on April 26, 2020, 11:37:14 am ---Apparently the Covidsafe bluetooth application is now ready for Australians to download.   :-\ 
They should make it so if you are in close proximity to somebody else for too long your
phone generates an annoyingly loud coughing sound, better to be safe than sick.   >:D

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-04-26/coronavirus-tracing-app-covidsafe-australia-government-covid-19/12186130

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Something llike this is being worked on over here as well.

I'll let everyone judge what this means as far as individual freedom and privacy go.
Of course they are all swearing everything will get anonymized.
Of course they are all swearing (well, the talk is already slightly changing now) that installing this will be optional.

That's interesting to see that now "going Korean" seems like a valid option, whereas just a couple weeks ago, when some of us were saying we should take a look at what the countries that managed to get this under control did, many were just saying we had no proof that really worked. (Same thing with masks BTW.) Oh well. Only fools and dead men don't change their minds.

But still, as I already said earlier, I for one am pretty concerned about all those measures and tools that are going to be severely damaging our freedom and privacy.
nctnico:
What I find annoying is that every country seems to want to develop their own Corona tracking app. In the end the functionality is the same because the problem is exactly the same for everyon so why not use one and the same app? I get the impression some government officials have the pipe dream of developing an app that somehow doesn't need to collect any information  :palm:
james_s:
I suspect it's going to be very hard to convince many people to install a tracking app from some other country. I know it's not rational, I mean people think nothing of handing over their personal information to social networking sites but anything associated in some way with government and the conspiracy theories start to fly. This is despite the fact that it's called a tracking app and the tracking is laid out right in front of you instead of being obfuscated as is the case with most. I wonder if they could just use the existing social networking apps, they're probably already installed on more phones than a new tracking app ever will be.
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