BlueHammer85
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I was thinking about our track and trace system yesterday. and how its mostly pointless as we only test symptomatic cases. if everyone who got an alert got tested then we would be catching the asymptomatic cases too and would really be able to block the chain of infection.
the scenario I was thinking of.
Person A, gets the virus, they are infectious for 2-3 days before symptoms, then it takes 2/3 days or so for the test and positive to come back. thats 4/6 days window where they could have infected someone. they put there test into the app and everyone that they came in contact with gets the alert. they infected person B in this time.
Person B. was close to person A early on. they get there alert and do the right thing, they isolate. but at this time they have actually been infectious for 4 or so days and Manage to infect person C. But Person B never get symptoms so never gets a test so Person C goes about there business without having a clue they have been near an infected person.
if Person C is asymptomatic too then thats close to 2 weeks of them spreading it without a clue.
Until we fill that hole in the track and trace system then its like boxing with 1 arm tied behind out backs.
this isn't taking into consideration that loads of people just ignore it mind you, thats a whole other issue.
yep. Never gonna work.