Interesting Links for 11-10-2020

[andrewducker]

Continual lockdowns are not the answer to bringing Covid under control (they're good stopgaps, but we need better track and trace and testing)

(tags:pandemic )

British firms may pause EU food exports to avoid traffic chaos in January (government states that said chaos may last significantly longer than that)

(tags:UK Europe trade Doom )

Stephen King, Margaret Atwood and Neil Gaiman champion trans rights in open letter with 1,200 other writers

(tags:writers LGBT transgender )

Comments

[birguslatro]

New Zealand has been developing a 'covid card' for tracing, but it's been going achingly slow. When I first heard of it it seemed the obvious way to go, compared to an app on phones. But govt bureaucracy is way too slow for this kinda thing!

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/covid-19-coronavirus-doubts-over-covidcard-technology-cost-new-documents-show/JPVM6TW54J5SPWHSDKLLW6CMKE/

[anna_wing]

https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/health/how-to-collect-your-free-tracetogether-token-5-things-to-know-about-the-device

[birguslatro]

Yes, I'd seen Singapore had deployed something very similar. Beat NZ by who knows how many months.