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mellow2020
·il y a 6 ans·discuss
In context, given all he wrote before, it's obvious that he means testing, not asking questions about who someone had coffee with.
mellow2020
·il y a 6 ans·discuss
> There isn't a dichotomy.

I simply meant that this

"without ubiquitous, cheap, fast, and accurate testing, you can't confirm the app's diagnosis. So the alert is useless."

was turned into medical professionals asking someone about contacts, a la

"Someone you report you had coffee with, but who doesn't get the disease, is a false positive"

to show that getting asked about contacts by medical professionals isn't better than a contact tracing app, which is a straw man, i.e. Schneier didn't ask for medical professionals to ask those questions, he said those questions are useless without tests.
mellow2020
·il y a 6 ans·discuss
The dichotomy isn't between the app or a medical professional guessing, based on contacts, whether someone might be infected and whether they should self-quarantine. The dichotomy is between guessing infection based on contacts and testing for infection.