It's an emotive issue and as technologists we often feel an urge to do something, anything straight away. I'm not suggesting delaying forever, and I do realize

It's an emotive issue and as technologists we often feel an urge to do something, anything straight away. I'm not suggesting delaying forever, and I do realize that there is human impact at the moment. I would not refer to the value of life in monetary terms that way. There may not be easy solutions but there are plenty of other contract tracing technologies[1] that experts have been discussing, developing and critiquing. I am suggesting that we allow those experts the time they need - no more, and no less - to get their work done to a sufficient level and report their findings to decision-makers. After that feedback is gathered it could become apparent that deploying GACT as a closed-source, time-unbounded OS-level feature with app approval restricted to two companies situated in one nation of the world is less than ideal. That could allow nations to collectively ask for changes to the proposal, with solidarity in their concerns and expert evidence to back it up. [1] - "Unified research on privacy-preserving contact tracing and exposure notification", https://docs.google.com/document/d/16Kh4_Q_tmyRh0-v452wiul9oQAiTRj8AdZ5vcOJum9Y/edit?ts=5e801c37 https://docs.google.com/document/d/16Kh4_Q_tmyRh0-v452wiul9o...