In reply to <a href="https://macdailynews.com/2020/04/22/u-s-senator-demands-tim-cook-and-sundar-pichai-be-personally-accountable-for-coronavirus-contact-tracing-privacy/#comment-2190516">James</a>.
The reason that the endemic bubonic plague and hantavirus in the Southwest are relatively manageable threats is almost entirely due to vigorous public health measures. Chief among these are reporting requirements, quarantines, testing, and contact tracing. Without precisely the methods proposed for controlling coronavirus, Albuquerque could see disease rates approaching Europe in 1348. Obviously, we have better rodent control and lower population densities, but the key is applying sound public health practices: identification and isolation.
“The vast majority of us have no use for the app” is only true if you have no use for the human beings who might die because you formed a link in the chain leading from Wuhan to them. Even if you are confident that you would survive, they might not. Wi
