[adrianmonk]

> Bluetooth contact tracing is hyped as a silver bullet, an alternative to social distancing.

What a ridiculous straw man argument. Nobody is saying this is a silver bullet. Nobody is saying it replaces social distancing. That's either disingenuous or it's based on a massive misunderstanding of the purpose here.

It is one weapon in an arsenal of several, and the goal is to keep using all of them at once because each one helps reduce R0. Contact tracing doesn't replace everything else. You keep doing as much social distancing as you can. You keep washing your hands. And you also do contact tracing.

> Day 6 [ ... ] Joe’s test results are back: positive. [ ... ] Potentially a few hundred people are going to have a really rotten day.

Yeah, well, that is the idea, isn't it? They were possibly exposed. Sometimes learning bad news means you have a bad day. What's the alternative, ignorance is bliss? You might also have a bad day if you get COVID-19 and give it to your grandmother and then she and half the people in her retirement home die.

[senectus1]

Thank you. the "anti tracing app" crowd seems to be split into two teams, one "Gov are going to use this to abuse and control you" or "it wont stop you getting the virus, it wont protect you from getting it"

this is NEVER the plan. why cant people get over that fact? Like home made masks, they're a small layer that helps to reduce the rapid spread. slow it down, let us control it a bit more.