Google Maps has added another tool to help keep everyone safe during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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[–]slushpilot 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun - 3 years ago (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 - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun - 3 years ago (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 - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun - 3 years ago (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.
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