Another issue is how late it came, period. (Yeah I know things take time and we can’t go back and change it). I honestly think this would have been much more useful in the early days. Sure it’s got it’s uses now, but still...
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Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau today announced that Canada plans to launch a nationwide COVID-19 contract tracing app based on Apple's and Google's Exposure Notification API, as noted by iPhone in Canada. Trudeau said the app is slated for release in early July, with testing set to begin in Ontario soon.
Canada will join a growing list of countries that have committed to using the API, including the United Kingdom, Italy, Latvia, Switzerland, Germany, Poland, Saudi Arabia, and others. At least three U.S. states are also adopting the solution.
Built into iOS 13.5 on the Apple side, the API allows iPhones and Android smartphones to interface with one another for contact tracing purposes. If and when you happen to be nearby someone who later tests positive for COVID-19, you can receive a notification and take the appropriate steps to self isolate and seek medical help if necessary.
Apple and Google have stressed the privacy of their Bluetooth-based solution, which must be enabled in the Settings app under Privacy > Health > COVID-19 Exposure Logging to function. Read our Exposure Notification guide for more details.
Article Link: Canada to Launch Nationwide COVID-19 Contact Tracing App Based on Apple/Google Technology
What about a second wave? Many countries and states are now experiencing spikes — China is closing down again — having a system up and running will still help there.
No disagreement there at all. Though it is still a reaction. It's great to have it in the event of a second wave. But it would have been a HUGE help for the first one. I'm also looking at it from a nurse perspective. My state had it's first case in January. My hospital had its first COVID patient in February. Governor didn't do anything until mid-March. You can't go back and change the past...but what you CAN say...is that anything that happened after the beginning of March...came too little too late. One thing we can ALL agree on is that this shouldn't have gotten to the point it did and that there are so many things that could have and should have been done differently and sooner. Now all we have left is to clean up the mess. On a whole score of levels...we screwed up in a critical period and well...look where we ended up. Heck, my hospital STILL hasn't gotten what we asked for from the state and at this point, we might as well not bother waiting since as it currently stands, we don't need the state's help anymore. We managed to get our situation under control ourselves. We were effectively on our own during the worst of this and to say we're angry about how our state leadership handled things would be a major understatement.
Everything related to COVIS is a reaction — that's kind of the point. New info on a virus we have minimal to moderate understanding of it's variables, the more data we get, the better we understand it. This is something that's impossible to stay ahead of, that's just a fact, so everything is reactionary because the feds got rid of the US's Global Pandemic office that coordinates and informs events like the one we are living through. But even THAT's not the point; The point is that you do the work in front of you with what you have available and worry about for to make the process better later when we're not in it. There is nothing that can be done now for missed opportunities beyond noting them and implementing them once this dies down for the next one, and it sounds like it's what you are doing right now so I commend you. I have two nurses in my family and I get it — there will be opportunities to fix leadership once the **** is cleared — but for now, whatever tools we can use (as soon as we can use them) is always going to be better than nothing.
If you bothered to read up on what you are talking about you would know how that isn't the slightest bit true. This is an uninformed, fear-mongering comment. Your opinion is not based on fact.
Oh definitely. Tough to do anything other than "react" when it comes to something you've never faced before. I'm more or less speaking from a "hindsight is 20/20" standpoint. Which of course doesn't change anything either. That itself is a reaction too!
Yeah — we need to drop the party lines garbage and actually vote for people based on what they are going to do. Doesn't matter if you are red or blue, will you do what you promise to do — and is that in the people's best interests.
Yes, but because they didn’t wait for the Apple/Google Api, it doesn’t work and it uses a central server. I’m waiting for the Australian government to admit they got it wrong and release a new decentralised app based on the Api. Then I will download it.
