I think that’s our plan B if a vaccine fails to pan out. People talk about what do we do if there is no vaccine, we can’t just keep things closed for years. What you laid out is a way to allow a lot more people to interact normally. It’s the definition of learning to live with the virus. I am hopeful that the saliva tests get better and cheaper over time and it could be possible everyone tests themselves frequently (daily?) if it comes to that.
True. In normal times I’d be hesitant to want to use something like that, but I was wiping my groceries down with disinfectant wipes, hoarding toilet paper and wearing a mask to visit with family...these ain’t normal times.Yeah, that's what they want you to think.
I all seriousness, I think a lot of people who have resistance to tracing will not trust in the explanation that the app isn't tracking you.
I don’t know how strong their isolation enforcement is over there, but at the very least it allows them to find as many positives as possible, isolate them, and meaningfully start the process from there.
Well, with that strategy it's obviously mostly the second. But I assume that the contacts of the 38,359 people who tested positive will be monitored and theoretically retested in a couple days. If these people are clustered in regions, communities, workplaces then they can keep an eye on the communities that are within proximity. As @sullivan.kscott said, they have meaningful starting points. So the contact tracing aspects of this will be in the future, not the present.
Agree. That's why I think we should pay people to opt in. Seriously. Incentivize participation (I've no idea how much money/tax credits might make a difference on a mass scale), but–as others have mentioned- people sell their identities for very little these days.Yeah, that's what they want you to think.
I all seriousness, I think a lot of people who have resistance to tracing will not trust in the explanation that the app isn't tracking you.
Aren't there threads dedicated to Disney Cruises? Why do you insist on cluttering up this laser-focused, non-political, and completely on-topic COVID discussion with information about DCL?
They probably just need business involvement. Download the app, check in, get a free whatever at Chick-Fil-A, Starbucks, McDonalds, the local Casino. Save 5% at the grocery store, Target, etc.
This is a good idea. Also, it would be great if we had trusted voices that could promote the use of the apps. But with everything so polemical and political these days, I'm not sure such a person/people even exist.
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I already downloaded the app...and I could really go for a spicy chicken sandwich.
I wonder how long Target, or rather the engineering team Target hired, took to develop the system, how long it took and how much data they needed to begin testing the system, and how many revisions the current systems had to go through to get it working.
And think of the number of ECVs and Mickey Waffles they could predict with a system like that!
That would only be true if they were starting from scratch. There was no need to start from scratch.
Also, Apple and Google partnered to develop the anonymous bluetooth tracing app. They started in April, and delivered it Sept. 2.
I know... make the app auto magically provide the coupon if you're negative; If you're positive, offer free delivery.
