As the Apple/Google system shows, it's possible to do contact tracing without sacrificing privacy. The blame is entirely with the UK government, not anybody who takes the reasonable step of refusing to support unnecessarily harmful technology.
Why not take measures that don't impact individual rights, like requiring essential jobs to provide their employees with PPE? Where's the accountability for Amazon and Walmart, that continue to allow sick employees to work?
I wonder how many people think they are reasonably health and they are unaware of some pre-existing condition that makes them more vulnerable than acceptable.
Do you know? Are you willing to gamble with other people's lives based on incomplete information?
I know there is a tradeoff, and wrecking the economy and imposing draconian isolation rules can have disastrous consequences on the very same people designed to protect, but your oneliner sounds so confident I wonder whether you've really paused to ponder all the tradeoffs
> [people who might be more vulnerable] should isolate.
and now you appear to be saying:
> [they should] acquire [the virus] and sit around until it's over
That's incredibly bad advice. Now, notice that I'm not going in too hard on you because I'm hoping I've misunderstood what you're saying, but can you clarify it to avoid such confusion, please?
