| Again, this solution _cannot_ work and it is a _threat_ to a permanent loss of privacy. This is like the government and the adtech companies sleeping in the same bed, without any other power opposition in the balance. 1) The "solution" is created by a monopoly of 2 american private corporations. 2) It can only work reliably if everyone wear an (Apple or Android) phone at all time, and consent to give data 3) You are not necessarily infected if you cross an infected in the street at 5 meters. This will have too many false positives and give fuzzy information to people 4) It doesn't help people who are infected and _dying_ It just _doesnt make sense_. To me, it looks like electronic voting, but worse. No one can understand how it works, beside experts. Today it is reviewed, but then the app will be forgotten and updated in the background with "new features" for adtech. We are forgetting what we are fighting : a biological virus. All effort should go toward understanding the biological machinery of the virus and the hosts, in order to _cure_ the virus. We should be 3D printing ventilators, analysing DNA sequences, build nanorobots and synthesis new molecules. |
2) You don't need 100%, you only need enough to drop the R0 below 1. You'll likely need a majority of people using this, which is hard enough, but you don't need everyone using it.
3) The apps are not supposed to include every single registered contact, only contacts that are over a bit longer timeframe. A typical value I've heard is 15 minutes close contact, that is considered a high risk contact when contact tracing.