Too much of the discussion about mask effectiveness looks at official policy rather than what people are actually doing. We have the deployed surveillance technology right now, but not the imagination or verve to use it to learn lessons and save lives.
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The discussion about repurposing commercial surveillance to save lives turned into an unending festival of wank by privacy activists (all safely self-isolating at home) plus a few contact tracing apps that serve no purpose except to be buggy and controversial. Good job, everyone.
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Ethical nukes.
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while I sympathize and even agree to an extent, it’s necessary to have a basic level of trust in the machinery of the state to make this work. it’s basically impossible to deploy surveillance tools like this while ICE and CBP are throwing brown people in jail/out of the country.
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The thing is that they're already broadly deployed, and completely unregulated. That said, I understand this argument and wish we had this discussion on a practical level (who do we give this data to, and with what safeguards), rather than the pointless one we ended up having.
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The reason to collect the data is to see if you can find correlations between behavior and how the disease spreads. People are already doing this based on policy (comparing states that require masks vs. ones that don't); doing it based on reality would improve that analysis
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straight out of Poland.
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