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For context, start with https://www.vox.com/2020/4/10/21215494/coronavirus-plans-social-distancing-economy-recession-depression-unemployment https://www.vox.com
by Analemma_ 7y ago
For context, start with https://www.vox.com/2020/4/10/21215494/coronavirus-plans-social-distancing-economy-recession-depression-unemployment https://www.vox.com/2020/4/10/21215494/coronavirus-plans-soc...
The tl;dr is that without a huge, nigh-omniscient program to trace individual cases, we have no choice but to go on and off Covid lockdown for a year or more, with potentially devastating economic consequences.
Having Apple and Google develop a built-in tracing program to their phones with firm privacy guarantees is not good, but it might be the least-bad solution we have right now.
- mmm_grayons 7y ago> Only an official effort, led by Apple+Google or maybe FB and then forced upon users, can reach the critical mass needed to make contact tracing viable. This may be right, but how will said vendors "force it" on users? A system update? That still takes voluntary cooperation.