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by p01926 2266 days ago
GPS data is pretty accurate outdoors, but the second you step inside a store the trace goes completely haywire and bounces round hundreds of meters in all directions. So any warnings will end up so broad as to be useless. Even if just 0.1% of a population are infected, you’ll end up with everyone getting multiple alerts everyday. How does that improve our situation?
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It doesn't work.

I live in a high rise. Every time I am in my garage, find my iPhone thinks I am in the building next door. If I am in my kids bedroom, it thinks I am across the street.

What if the person above me is in their kitchen at the same time I am in my kitchen?

It says bluetooth
Permanently disabled on my phone.