Apple CEO Tim Cook Says Contact Tracing API Available From April 28

[ginkobiloba]

Interesting that it is quoted to be the "French Government" that is making these demands. The news media suggests that this is something that the French Parliament has not voted on, and it part of the same obsessive autocratic drive on the part of Macron to suppress the Yellow Jackets.

For M. Breton, my comment would be that if the French Govt has the trust of the people, they will download and use the app. Something that bypasses user agreement by force or diktat deserves to fail.

Once it has been made to work this sort of tracking will never go away. Today the infection by COVID, tomorrow tracked for your political views, or because you oppose government corruption, etc

Lol what ? Sorry but you have just no idea what you are talking about. Please stop with the fake news. This has nothing to do whatsoever with the yellow jackets ( and if you actually pretend to know what the yellow jackets were about, then you are even more misguided)

. It is inspired by what South Korea did. Also, there wasn’t even a hint that this may be mandatory. It has ALWAYS been clear from the start that it was optional, and open-sourced. And this was demanded by Macron himself ( whether one likes him or not is not the point). I mean, we’re talking about one of the countries that brought you GDPR. The whole privacy issue is what’s been slowing down its development ( by a group of europen researchers, not just the french). I wouldn’t be surprised if the whole thing is just abandoned after a few months because they can’t find a way to reconciliate its usefullness with the mandatory privacy requirements by the EU and the CNIL ( a french regulatory body that regulates data collection and its use )

And lastly, knowing the french people, it is likely to end up anyway with an adoption rate slightly superior to zero, and probably only by the elderly who are most worried.

 

[diddl14]

Just like PRISM, nothing will go wrong.

Meaning?

 

[ibgb]

Far more people have had this than reported. 2% of people aren't going to the hospital over it. USC, Stanford and others have already done studies on this. The official numbers are off by 40-80x. 40-75% of people show zero symptoms. We've all already had this most likely.

You are spreading mis-information; please stop.

Experts demolish studies suggesting COVID-19 is no worse than flu

Experts demolish studies suggesting COVID-19 is no worse than flu

Authors of widely publicized antibody studies “owe us all an apology,” one expert says.

arstechnica.com

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I think the authors of the above-linked paper owe us all an apology. We wasted time and effort discussing this paper whose main selling point was some numbers that were essentially the product of a statistical error.

I’m serious about the apology. Everyone makes mistakes. I don’t think they[sic] authors need to apologize just because they screwed up. I think they need to apologize because these were avoidable screw-ups."

 

[cocky jeremy]

You are spreading mis-information; please stop.

Experts demolish studies suggesting COVID-19 is no worse than flu

Experts demolish studies suggesting COVID-19 is no worse than flu

Authors of widely publicized antibody studies “owe us all an apology,” one expert says.

arstechnica.com

"
I think the authors of the above-linked paper owe us all an apology. We wasted time and effort discussing this paper whose main selling point was some numbers that were essentially the product of a statistical error.

I’m serious about the apology. Everyone makes mistakes. I don’t think they[sic] authors need to apologize just because they screwed up. I think they need to apologize because these were avoidable screw-ups."

No, i'm not. What's being reported is total BS.

 

[Jimmy James]

No, i'm not. What's being reported is total BS.

You mentioned Sweden earlier in this thread. They haven’t done nothing. They have social isolation instructions and have shut down businesses where non-compliance occurred. They’re not in total lockdown but that’s also different than doing nothing. They also have a high death rate per capita and their ongoing trend doesn’t look great.

The US has 55,000 associated deaths. So far. The worst flu year saw 80,000 deaths from all strains and didn’t have any distancing measures. This covid is a singular virus. It’s like dismissing a single car accident pileup with 55,000 deaths on a partially deactivated road by saying the death rate is within annualized numbers. It’s not the same thing. Not at all. And it’s not done yet.

Sure, there is flawed reporting and other agendas in play. But you repeatedly and persistently dismiss the whole thing as nothing. As “total BS”. It’s far from that. Even based on these interim stats and despite unprecedented intervention.

 

[chucker23n1]

You mentioned Sweden earlier in this thread. They haven’t done nothing. They have social isolation instructions and have shut down businesses where non-compliance occurred. They’re not in total lockdown but that’s also different than doing nothing. They also have a high death rate per capita and their ongoing trend doesn’t look great.

The US has 55,000 associated deaths. So far.

Sweden has 32% more deaths per capita.

 

[cocky jeremy]

Sweden has 32% more deaths per capita.

And it'll all be over there soon. Everyone will be dead or immune and life can go on. Worth it.