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I don't understand where you are going with this. Can you show me that contact tracing can make significant difference? If not, then I won't consider the other

I don't understand where you are going with this. Can you show me that contact tracing can make significant difference? If not, then I won't consider the other points as they are simply irrelevant. Without the setu app being mandatory, going by government figures (which I doubt somewhat), only about 1.2k people have died so far. I will consider that as a starting point and compare this to all the unnecessary deaths that happen in the country which government blatantly ignores. And we still spend 3.6% of the total GDP on the healthcare so not really good. Could be anecdote but I am seeing less specialists in india and more dentists, dermatologist, and cosmetics. Government hospitals are still unhygienic where I live so I won't even consider going there.

sbmthakur 7y ago
> Without the setu app being mandatory, going by government figures (which I doubt somewhat), only about 1.2k people have died so far. That's probably because we are in a strict lockdown which is not sustainable. The real effect of contract-tracing will be only be known when the economy is fully opened.
ben_w 7y ago
> Can you show me that contact tracing can make significant difference? It’s a standard technique that has been successfully used for a long time. For example, it’s how smallpox was finally wiped out. (This is a separate point to “does this particular app look suspicious?” to which I say “yes”). > going by government figures (which I doubt somewhat), only under 1k people have died so far. In India, which is doing the things you’re complaining about. Meanwhile, the USA, which has less than a quarter of India’s population, has 65,605. Are you familiar with exponential growth, or do you only ever see the word “exponential” used to mean “rapid” without the strict mathematical meaning?

sbmthakur 7y ago

> Without the setu app being mandatory, going by government figures (which I doubt somewhat), only about 1.2k people have died so far. That's probably because we are in a strict lockdown which is not sustainable. The real effect of contract-tracing will be only be known when the economy is fully opened.

ben_w 7y ago

> Can you show me that contact tracing can make significant difference? It’s a standard technique that has been successfully used for a long time. For example, it’s how smallpox was finally wiped out. (This is a separate point to “does this particular app look suspicious?” to which I say “yes”). > going by government figures (which I doubt somewhat), only under 1k people have died so far. In India, which is doing the things you’re complaining about. Meanwhile, the USA, which has less than a quarter of India’s population, has 65,605. Are you familiar with exponential growth, or do you only ever see the word “exponential” used to mean “rapid” without the strict mathematical meaning?