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Only 33% of Americans would consider using a contract tracing app. https://www.axios.com/axios-ipsos-coronavirus-week-9-contact-tracing-bd747eaa-8fa1-4822-89bc
by cwhiz 6y ago
Only 33% of Americans would consider using a contract tracing app.
https://www.axios.com/axios-ipsos-coronavirus-week-9-contact-tracing-bd747eaa-8fa1-4822-89bc-4e214c44a44d.html https://www.axios.com/axios-ipsos-coronavirus-week-9-contact...
- raggi 6y agoSure, but equivalent tracing teams in some of the bad us cities would have two to three orders of magnitude higher case load per team member. The "traditional methods" like making phone calls as described in the article do not work at that scale. Yes testing and many other things are more effective, and tracing is less useful if you've effectively got rates down to manageable levels, but at unmanaged levels, automation _could_ really help. New York has more new cases per day than Iceland has handled in total.
- cwhiz 6y agoIt doesn’t matter. People don’t trust the apps and won’t use them. Singpore has 20% and Iceland now 40%.
- phyzome 6y agoIt would definitely depend on the app, for me! There are better and worse ways of doing this, along both privacy and security axes. (...if I even used a smartphone)
- chrischen 6y agoWell, I never opted into Amber Alerts so maybe it can still work by forcing people to use the Apple/Google built in contact tracing API.
- DaniloDias 6y agoThis kind of decision will trigger people like me to give up on iPhones. I’ve already given up on android due to google’s advertising horseshit.
- CamelCaseName 6y agoThe Zune team welcomes you with open arms!
- redis_mlc 6y agoI'm under the impression most Amber Alerts are really custody battles.
- chrischen 6y agoYou also get them for flash foods and other things.