It’s our faces, more than any other part of the body, that make us human. Paintings of veiled and masked faces by Pelez, Morelli and others.
Covid-19
Do you watch Covid-19 charts to check whether a second wave is coming, or progress in controlling the infection? Here are a couple of catches to watch for.
Is the big problem not privacy at all, nor waking up to contacts, but inaccuracy in Bluetooth measuring distance? And how successful is contact tracing?
Just how many fresh cases occurred in the UK on 22 May? It should be an easy question to answer, surely?
What are the options now for managing Covid-19 infection? Shouldn’t we protect the privacy of data above all else?
Did you think the UK was launching a smartphone contact tracing app? So did I, and have been trialling it. So when will it be released? Does it even work?
So your swab test is negative. That could mean that it was just a false negative, or you might not have the infection at all. How can you tell the chances?
Confused aims and poor adoption could prove fatal, and dash hopes of ever using smartphone technology to our benefit in tackling the pandemic.
What’s the difference between a suspect and confirmed case, and which should be used for contact tracing? What about the implications of testing?
Can a smartphone contact tracing app work without using the support in Apple and Google’s forthcoming frameworks? Are there advantages?
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