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[–]slushpilot 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

They say a feature is only useful if it changes behaviour.

How will this feature do that? Easy to predict: people from high-risk areas will go shopping in low-risk areas.

Did they intend this to drive more spread when they designed it? Tech people have no brains.

[–]fred_red_beans 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

"Data featured in the COVID layer comes from multiple authoritative sources, including Johns Hopkins, the New York Times, and Wikipedia," Google's blog post reads.

Wow, I feel safer already knowing that Johns Hopkins who did a pandemic "exercise" the month before the pandemic even started (Event 201) is providing data... /s

[–]Intuit 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Now do an overlay in maps showing crime rates of different areas in town, to know what areas to avoid.

Oops, that's racist.