On Wed, 2020-07-15 at 09:19 +1000, Tom Worthington wrote: > The COVIDSafe App only cost a tiny fraction of the billions spent on > COVID-19. The app was oversold, but at least it appears to have done > no direct harm, unlike some other measures.
I gave you several harms, direct and otherwise, the least of which was millions spent that could have gone to - oh, hospitals? Schools? Homelessness? Advertising something that actually helps? > But an App which works well and does not infringe privacy would be > useful. If we had a beach we could have a moonlit picnic on the beach, if we had a moon. > What worries me is that Australia has got used to implementing > pandemic measures in a relatively benign environment That's a general point I think. Australia has gotten used to a benign environment. Regards, K. -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Karl Auer ([email protected]) http://www.biplane.com.au/kauer http://twitter.com/kauer389 GPG fingerprint: 2561 E9EC D868 E73C 8AF1 49CF EE50 4B1D CCA1 5170 Old fingerprint: 8D08 9CAA 649A AFEF E862 062A 2E97 42D4 A2A0 616D _______________________________________________ Link mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link
