Bantamzen
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You are being tracked at all times anyway. This website is tracking you now. It has to go be able to send you the data to the correct ip address.
The fact people are ignoring the advice of the medical professionals and putting lives at risk is abhorent.
I using data in this way will give these people more information and help build a better model.
I don't know how people don't get this.
Its a totally unknown disease at the moment.
Flu etc we have had decades to study and they can predict with pretty good accuracy how it will spread and what % will get. Plus there is a vaccination. This has none of that data in any significant amount nor is there a vaccination. Using information if available will help the developing situation and along with home testing may allow the country to start moving again.
To quote Ars:
https://arstechnica.com/science/202...elines-for-hospitals-in-the-time-of-covid-19/
The more data we have the better to keep everything moving and people alive. Not just those with underlying problems (however this dosnt seem to be as true as it used to) but people who have accidents or need a Dr for other reasons. These are just as much of dying due to not enough resources.
Anyother final quote from the same article
https://arstechnica.com/science/202...elines-for-hospitals-in-the-time-of-covid-19/
I'm perfectly aware that our mobile devices are capable of tracking us, I regularly use this feature in my day-to-day life so that does not concern me. What does is the proposition that governments proactively use them to track citizens so that they can enforce regulations. You might think its a pragmatic solution to stopping people moving about, or collecting medical data, but as I said once gained these powers will be difficult to remove. Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely, so as a society we need to think long & hard about just what we allow to be given over in the name of our good.