DelayRepay
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I’m tired of the economy being trashed to appease Facebook Karens and paranoid maskivists who cannot understand risk. Soon enough many of these people will lose their jobs, and will no doubt change their tune, but by then it will be too late.
I am also tired of this. I am not sure how the App we are discussing will make things any worse though.
Track and trace is a complete farce and will be as ineffective as everything else intended to combat this virus. The best thing to do would be to lift the restrictions for the majority of us and get back to normality as quickly as possible. That will mean more deaths but we will be getting deaths whatever we do.
I agree that the current system is a complete farce, but I hope the app will make it more reliable, and therefore will reduce the number of infections and allow other restrictions to be lifted earlier than they otherwise would be. To be clear I am not suggesting an elimination strategy, or even a strategy of keeping infections as low as possible. I am suggesting that we need to keep infections within certain limits to protect the NHS and other key services (and those limits may be higher than they were in April, given fewer people seem to need hospital care now). A better track and trace system would also give more intelligence about where transmission is occurring and therefore which of the current restrictions are working, and which are not.
Nothing, I suppose, but I think most people will do what is asked. Like everything, including the original lockdown, you do not need 100% compliance to make a difference.How will these venues know whether you’ve “checked in” anyway? What’s to stop you just pointing your phone at the QR code?
I am just going to add, you talk about an understanding of risk. I understand risk - it is my job to understand risk. Risk is about uncertainty of outcome. This includes accepting that there is a risk in adopting new technology, including that the outcome might not be as expected/desired. Personally I think the benefits of the app outweigh the downsides even though the app will not be a silver bullet. A perfect example of understanding risk.