Cras wrote:
Basically they screwed up by only implementing the first message which is stupidly vague and unhelpful. They 'fixed' it by adding the second message, saying basically "everything fine here". What they should have then done is removed the pointless first message.
That makes sense. In that case, though, they really need to implement something whereby they only send the first message if the assessment in the second message is found to be significant enough to send the alerts, as both times it’s happened now (and once to Russell also) they’ve come through at the exact same second.
It would also be handy to know the metrics they are using to make the assessment.
The only things I can find on the internet Say that the signal strength is used to gauge approximate exposure of standing within 2m of someone for (and here it gets really woolly) 10 or 15 minutes but that these limits are ‘tweakable’ according to changing information on how the virus is spreading.
Now, I’ve only left the house three days this week, to do the school run. Each time I’ve walked past people for seconds, dropped Darwin off/picked him up, and left. You are there seconds, rather than minutes. Certainly I’ve not been static or near someone for 5 minutes at any time.
Relatedly, masks have been mandatory for parents and carers at the school grounds since Monday. I would say (and obviously this is all my own observation and nothing more) maybe 1 in 15 women were wearing one before they were made mandatory, and about three quarters of men, and the difference seemed huge.
The day it was made mandatory it was like the men all had some secret meeting where they decided that they would wear the no longer. EVERY man I saw on the first two days was without. In fact, at the beginning of the week it was only about 1 in 10 that wore one.
Around Thursday, after repeated reminders and pleas more people have started wearing them, but I’m so intrigued by those that actively stopped. One of the fathers I see every say has worn one since the start, but this past week, nothing. I wish I had it in me to ask some of them why.
I also don’t understand how, when there’s been a clearly marked one-way system in place from the start, that 97% of people stick to, how anyone has got that streak of whatever it is in themselves to every day get them and their kids to walk past every single other person, squeeze past them all (because the fences-in pathways are narrow) and just decide that they will be the one person who just ‘won’t’. I’d be too embarrassed if nothing else.