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An interesting Twitter thread on why the stand-alone contact tracing apps that many others are building won't work, and why integrated platform solutions like t

An interesting Twitter thread on why the stand-alone contact tracing apps that many others are building won't work, and why integrated platform solutions like this are necessary: https://twitter.com/zainy/status/1248482486524379137 https://twitter.com/zainy/status/1248482486524379137 (but of course, necessary does not mean sufficient)

wiz21c 7y ago
Also, efficiency depends on how many persons can be tested. If it's 10000 a day, in my country, it's about 1/500 th of the population a day... If it's enough to test say 1/10 of the population to have some results, this will take 1-2 months... I have the impression that all of this is forced upon us as to make us believe that it is safe to get back to work ASAP. Wouldn't it be better to just wait ? (I'm not interested in the economical debate : this will invariably lead to compromises such as how many victims can we afford to keep the economy going ? (nobody will tell it that way, but in the end that's the truth behind those arguments))
- therealdrag0 7y ago
  FWIW, I’ll “tell it that way”. I think it’s a interesting topic. And a real one manifest in our actions all the time. There is a real cost to life and trade offs.
  - wiz21c 7y ago
    I'd say that's the pragmatist versus idealist debate. I'm on the latter side :-)
    - therealdrag0 7y ago
      Well if we were hanging out in person it’d be fun to hash this out :)
FabHK 7y ago
Yes. If ever there was the necessity for one standard that almost everyone uses, and not 20 competing incompatible ones, then here.
jessriedel 7y ago
The argument is OK, but fails to mention fact that Singapore's TraceTogether and Stanford's Covid Watch are pursuing a common Bluetooth covid tracing standard that everyone can adopt. So you don't need mass adoption of a single app.
- dannyw 7y ago
  We worked on a project relating to TraceTogether. We could not get Android<>iOS interoperability to work well.

wiz21c 7y ago

Also, efficiency depends on how many persons can be tested. If it's 10000 a day, in my country, it's about 1/500 th of the population a day... If it's enough to test say 1/10 of the population to have some results, this will take 1-2 months... I have the impression that all of this is forced upon us as to make us believe that it is safe to get back to work ASAP. Wouldn't it be better to just wait ? (I'm not interested in the economical debate : this will invariably lead to compromises such as how many victims can we afford to keep the economy going ? (nobody will tell it that way, but in the end that's the truth behind those arguments))

therealdrag0 7y ago
FWIW, I’ll “tell it that way”. I think it’s a interesting topic. And a real one manifest in our actions all the time. There is a real cost to life and trade offs.
- wiz21c 7y ago
  I'd say that's the pragmatist versus idealist debate. I'm on the latter side :-)
  - therealdrag0 7y ago
    Well if we were hanging out in person it’d be fun to hash this out :)

FabHK 7y ago

Yes. If ever there was the necessity for one standard that almost everyone uses, and not 20 competing incompatible ones, then here.

jessriedel 7y ago

The argument is OK, but fails to mention fact that Singapore's TraceTogether and Stanford's Covid Watch are pursuing a common Bluetooth covid tracing standard that everyone can adopt. So you don't need mass adoption of a single app.

dannyw 7y ago
We worked on a project relating to TraceTogether. We could not get Android<>iOS interoperability to work well.