I& #39;m really over hearing how brilliant Asian countries have been at containing Covid and "oh, we should follow their lead, we are really shit". Taiwan has imposed a really repressive, intrusive data tracking regime. We had a massive row over a much lower-key centralised approach https://twitter.com/faisalislam/status/1321721288063393793">https://twitter.com/faisalisl...
Here& #39;s what Taiwan has done. This would not fly, and rightly so, in the UK. (Source: BMJ)
And this is what South Korea has done. Dunno about you, but I& #39;m not up for this
I& #39;m still of the view that we should have pursued tech that would have given health authorities more insight into the spread of the virus. Our test & trace infrastructure isn& #39;t working, and the tech we ended up with does indeed protect privacy very effectively, but ...
it& #39;s not much use for tracking people & getting them tested & if necessary isolated. We have an app that& #39;s built to keep privacy nerds happy, which is great, but it& #39;s failing as part of a bigger system that& #39;s also failing. We need to understand that the app is part of the failure
I& #39;m very glad I& #39;m not having to make these huge decisions of privacy/economy/public health/mental health/civic live etc. I don& #39;t know what the answers are. But this is a grown-up conversation that we& #39;re not having, and we need to confront these hard questions. Over and out.
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