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john m

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Re: covid tracking app
« Reply #15 on: July 07, 2020, 02:06:17 pm »
I can see the merit of the app but if its not compulsory that you input if you have contracted the disease how does the app work ?Its supposed to be anonymous so why dont the HSE upload the status of infected people before they release them into the community .If you are infected and refuse to have your data uploaded you should be detained in Isolation .In the expensive isolation unit in City West .

If you get the disease, you are asked if you have the APP, then you are asked if you want to share upload the IDs.
It's very simple really and at the same time brilliant because it answers all the questions asked by the tin hat brigade

FUCK sake stop digging .YOU ARE ASKED IF YOU WANT TO UPLOAD .thats what I said and based on your lack of education you dissagreed .That is its Achillees Heel its not mandatory so it is designed to fail .

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« Reply #16 on: July 07, 2020, 02:07:06 pm »
They need Citywest back for the darts in October.
If it doesn't have a roof sign and door stickers it's not a taxi.

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« Reply #17 on: July 07, 2020, 02:08:12 pm »
They need Citywest back for the darts in October.

Do you want a lift home ?

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« Reply #18 on: July 07, 2020, 02:12:10 pm »
If it's on... unlikely, I don't think the HSE contract ends before it's scheduled... could be rescheduled I guess.
If it doesn't have a roof sign and door stickers it's not a taxi.

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Re: covid tracking app
« Reply #19 on: July 07, 2020, 04:25:36 pm »
I can see the merit of the app but if its not compulsory that you input if you have contracted the disease how does the app work ?Its supposed to be anonymous so why dont the HSE upload the status of infected people before they release them into the community .If you are infected and refuse to have your data uploaded you should be detained in Isolation .In the expensive isolation unit in City West .

If you get the disease, you are asked if you have the APP, then you are asked if you want to share upload the IDs.
It's very simple really and at the same time brilliant because it answers all the questions asked by the tin hat brigade

FUCK sake stop digging .YOU ARE ASKED IF YOU WANT TO UPLOAD .thats what I said and based on your lack of education you dissagreed .That is its Achillees Heel its not mandatory so it is designed to fail .

It's designed to be downloaded and is currently very successful in that regard, if the sharing of information was mandatory, tin hat merchants such as yourself would have a field day.
Most will have a social conscience and will share the IDs.
Those that wouldn't give consent to share Id's would be too selfish to share contacts without the app, so no difference.
Don't always try to find bad in everything.

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Re: covid tracking app
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Re: covid tracking app
« Reply #21 on: July 07, 2020, 07:08:58 pm »
You are a Dangerous fool, there is not one true fact in that entire paragraph of pure crap.

The App has been designed by Google to work and is brilliant.
It doesn't track like FN or Uber it uses bluetooth and only knows if you've been within 1.5 meters of an infected person for 15 mins or more, it doesn't know where you've been.
The more people that download it the better, gobshites like you spewing crap are it's only concern in that regard.
You don't input your diagnosis yourself, if you get a positive result you are then asked if you have the app, and then if you allow those you have been in close contact with for more than 15 mins are informed, they are not told who you are or where you met.
At least get one fucking fact right before you do your usual put down.
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The first post about the https://www.hse.ie/eng/services/news/newsfeatures/covid19-updates/covid-tracker-app/ is a tinfoil hat!!

Sheesh!

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Re: covid tracking app
« Reply #22 on: July 08, 2020, 02:39:52 pm »
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Will they get 60% ??Or is it designed to Fail ?
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Re: covid tracking app
« Reply #23 on: July 08, 2020, 02:44:45 pm »
I downloaded it yesterday,  mainly out of curiosity.  I dont see what the problem is with people downloading it. If its about personal data that ship has sailed years ago with Google and Facebook and the rest that track you all day every day. So have folks downloaded it and if not why not?

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« Reply #24 on: July 08, 2020, 02:51:56 pm »
I downloaded it Monday Night  but most young people wont they are reading shit on FB .They need at least 60% of people to download it for it to work effectivly .Dont think they will get that plus there is no requirement for people diagnosed to upload their status .To me it has to many flaws to be effective .There is a trend now in Ireland for people to question apps like Facebook Whats App or Twitter Anti vaxers who think Bill Gates is the Devil .No other country has managed to launch a successfull tracing app but the Irish one is probably the most engaged but dont know if that will be enough to make it successfull .

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« Reply #25 on: July 08, 2020, 02:58:30 pm »
Ireland's Covid-19 tracker app expected to reach 1 million users today
For the app to be effective, it needs to be downloaded by at least 60% of the population.


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HSE CEO Paul Reid said that they expect 1 million people to have downloaded Ireland’s Covid-19 Tracker app by today – just over 24 hours after the app was first launched.

“By far the most successful launch of this app anywhere in the world,” Reid said on Twitter. “Well done Ireland. Please keep it going and protect everyone by downloading it now.”

The app is intended to help contact tracing, particularly with people who aren’t family and friends. It uses Bluetooth technology to determine whether you’ve been a close contact of someone who’s tested positive for the virus.

This isn’t technology that has been created for this purpose, so it’s uncertain exactly how effective it could be.

When you download it, the app will ask for permission to collect and share anonymous data in order to facilitate contact tracing. It will also ask for your phone number, age range, and the area you are in – though you don’t have to give those details.

Around 3.6 million people have a smart phone in Ireland, according to Statista, meaning that close to a third of that population will have downloaded the app.

For the app to be effective at helping with contact tracing, it needs to be downloaded by at least 60% of the population.

Health Minister Stephen Donnelly said that as of 8am today, 865,000 people had downloaded the Covid-19 Tracker app.

“A HUGE act of solidarity. Thank you so much. Please take 2 minutes today. Please download the app & help us all keep each other safe.”

- with reporting from Dominic McGrath


Will they get 60% ??Or is it designed to Fail ?

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Re: covid tracking app
« Reply #26 on: July 08, 2020, 03:14:16 pm »
A Virologist, an Epidemiologist,  and a Scientist walk into a bar


No they didn't because they're not idiots!

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« Reply #27 on: July 08, 2020, 03:17:36 pm »
A Virologist, an Epidemiologist,  and a Scientist walk into a bar


No they didn't because they're not idiots!

Ah the version of that I heard was a Driver shares a car with three strangers one said to the other pass us the soap the other fella says what do you think I am a Bicycle .

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« Reply #28 on: July 08, 2020, 03:20:49 pm »
A Virologist, an Epidemiologist,  and a Scientist walk into a bar


No they didn't because they're not idiots!

Ah the version of that I heard was a Driver shares a car with three strangers one said to the other pass us the soap the other fella says what do you think I am a Bicycle .
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Re: covid tracking app
« Reply #29 on: July 08, 2020, 04:40:08 pm »
I downloaded it Monday Night  but most young people wont they are reading shit on FB .

True there are Gobshites everywhere, all only too eager to spread misinformation.

 


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