>If contact tracing is needed then it should be deployed in the most effective way
I, and many others, do not agree with your opinion that it should be mandatory. No other country has mandated contact tracing apps for their non-quarantined population.
There's no proof that a contact tracing application would be effective after there are already millions of cases. There is no indication that there will be enough tests to identify asymptomatic carriers, so if you were vulnerable you'd still need to self-isolate to be safe.
Already 1 out of 5 people have antibodies to this. We're on our way to herd immunity and a death rate of something like 1 out of 500 people. We were trying to slow things down so that hospitals were not overwhelmed, and we've done so. Unless someone comes up with a vaccine that can be mass produced in the next couple months this will all be a moot point.
Is there a reason you don't think their numbers can be extrapolated to other places? Last week they were at 15% in NYC, and this jived with the numbers form other places, like the U.K., and I think also Germany.
It seems that as we get more data we're find more cases, and in increasing amounts, across the board. Which lowers the death rate and means we can reach herd immunity sooner than we thought.
I, and many others, do not agree with your opinion that it should be mandatory. No other country has mandated contact tracing apps for their non-quarantined population.
There's no proof that a contact tracing application would be effective after there are already millions of cases. There is no indication that there will be enough tests to identify asymptomatic carriers, so if you were vulnerable you'd still need to self-isolate to be safe.
Already 1 out of 5 people have antibodies to this. We're on our way to herd immunity and a death rate of something like 1 out of 500 people. We were trying to slow things down so that hospitals were not overwhelmed, and we've done so. Unless someone comes up with a vaccine that can be mass produced in the next couple months this will all be a moot point.