Handwashing is overrated IMO. Yes, it's important for doctors and nurses(who touch dozens of sick humans a day), people who are in contact with animals, and small kids who don't have any concept of hygiene.
But for the average adult, they just do not have that many harmful bacteria or viruses randomly on their hands.
This caused some major issues with the Coronavirus. Eg. if you googled anything related to it in march, the search results displayed a "wash your hands message" even though the virus is spread by droplets AKA sharing air indoors with an infected person.
I can only imagine how many unnecessary infections and deaths this caused when people thought they were safe if they just washed their hands often. To this day, I'd say about half of the population has no clue how respitory diseases spread.
I hope we do start to go back to the more decentralized way of living, where smart highly educated workers don't concentrate in the largest cities and instead live all over the country.
This is how it used to be 50 years ago.
Isn't it interesting how these sort of exploits exist for probably every hardware/software out there, just that they are never discovered? Since the amount of people with the knowhow for reverse engineering, discovering, and actually building something out of the exploit is so miniscule.
? Nuclear accidents don't come out of thin air, they are caused by humans, some countries/areas have higher risks of accidents, and most areas have zero risk.
Russia is definitely a high risk area (if not THE high risk area), considering their soviet legacy of ancient nuclear power plants etc.
I doubt there are really too many of those. At the most, I'd say under 50k.
The real reason for the fee is just to stop spammers on the App store. It probably blocks around 99% of them, without the fee I'd wager the appstore would be unusable.
Other Asian countries are seeing the exact same results though? The virus is basically gone in all of them, the average person doesn't have to worry about it.
It seems only China is being overly cautious, implementing lockdown-type measures on a Russian border city with 130 confirmed cases
Don't care, i'll take a good web app over a shitty native app any day.
Since native apps take much longer to develop and the UI toolkits are stuck in the 90s, it's pretty much given nowadays that new ones are shitty compared to the equivalent web one.
This reassures the hypothesis that you probably won't catch the virus from a brief contact in a grocery store or similar if you keep your distance.
Infections happen within families, and spread from one family to another by friends/coworkers. The infected people should be easily able to list all exposed out by name.
An exception is of course mass indoors public events that are forbidden now. This is where a contact tracing app would probably prove to be the most useful.
What do you think would happen to the economy if we let the virus run free through the population, and eventually everyone would be too scared to leave their house and quit showing up to their job?
Most of this stuff comes from students / junior developers, where yes, they probably visit stack overflow every 20 minutes