What this is really going to be used for
Generating evidence for court saying this person didn't keep their distance so it's not Amazon's fault they came down with it.
Amazon has tapped up artificial intelligence to help its warehouse employees keep six feet apart to curb the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus. Specifically, the internet giant has produced something it's called Distance Assistant, which combines machine-learning and augmented reality to analyze live camera footage of people …
In that short list of complaints. Did you not forget to mention all those peaceful protestor's with their benign bricks of liberation? Or do the terminally offended just get a pass? Surly I can NOT be the only One here that saw the Media go from condemning such 'peaceful' protestors demanding an end to this current madness. Being branded as alt-right yatziees. To try he aforementioned 'peaceful antifa / BLM' protestors who have taken up the liberation of other people's stuff, and then burning what's left to the ground. Why is it that nobody is reminding these people to keep their 'social distance' and or to wear a damnd mask?
But, it's perhaps best to not bring this up...
Most people are smart enough to realise than unless someone sneezes or coughs directly on you the chances of catching covid when walking past someone in the street or supermarket are next to zero so we don't bother to distance in those circumstances.
Are you one of the paranoids who even wears a mask while driving because you believe a few mm of cheap cotton does a better job of filtering than an automotive grade pollen filter in your car?
Most people are smart enough to realise than unless someone sneezes or coughs directly on you the chances of catching covid when walking past someone in the street or supermarket are next to zero so we don't bother to distance in those circumstances.
Large numbers of low probability interactions mean that infections will still frequently occur. For example, if there is a 1 in a hundred thousand chance of catching Covid through a single interaction, then after 3000 interactions (e.g. average 30 interactions a day for 100 days) then a person will have a (1-0.99999^3000 =) 3% chance of catching the disease.
Another way of looking at it is that there would be about 30 new infections every day in a population of 100,000 interacting people.
Not strictly true.
Recent studies have found that tiny exhaled / coughed up / sneezed droplets can hang in the air for several minutes, and can spread 10s of metres in that time.
Someone doesn't have to cough or sneeze directly on you for you to become infected. Just walk through the cloud they left behind several minutes prior could do it.
Agreed that wearing a mask while driving is generally dumb, unless there are others in the car who need to be isolated, for instance driving someone to a COVID test site.
"Agreed that wearing a mask while driving is generally dumb, unless there are others in the car who need to be isolated, for instance driving someone to a COVID test site."
I've driven with a mask on. I had been out, somewhere potentially infected (red zone) and I didn't have anywhere to wash my hands and put the (washable) mask somewhere safe, so I wore it in the car on the way back. Then when I entered my house, went into the utility room (yellow zone) and washed and doffed the mask.
Unless you have a lot of equipment in your car to disinfect and store reuseable masks, it's best to treat it as a red zone for PPE reasons.
>Are you one of the paranoids who even wears a mask while driving because you believe a few mm of cheap cotton does a better job of filtering than an automotive grade pollen filter in your car?
The mask isn't to reduce the risk of you inhaling SARS-Cov-2, you wear it to reduce the risk of you unknowingly distributing live SARS-Cov-2. In this scenario, the car's pollen filter is of zero benefit.
Its not the mask as such. Like the people working for Amazon they have a job to do an a machine that tells them where there next item is, a trolley to get stuff and a mask which makes you feel out of sorts. It takes just something as simple as this to disorientate you enough to not remember to do 2 meters, or even if you remember it just takes enough of your brain up so you dont notice other people. Simply moving items around in shops is enough to throw people to buy the wrong things in normal times - its impossible to find that tin of beans when the mask impinges on your peripheral vision let alone know someone else with the same problem is backing into the space you are backing into. And then there's the general stress caused in social interactions due the the mask...
Just remember the basketball thing and the bloke in the gorilla suit.
The problem with using an average crocodile is that many are above or below average length, so that would lead to confusion on the exact distances. Conversely this makes it ideal for government use where confusion is always your friend.
I have a theory though that if we actually used crocodiles to ensure distancing, then that would work as people are naturally wary of the beasts. I'm still working on how to protect the person wielding the crocodile as a ruler though.
Mind then wanders off to wonder if crocodiles actually get Covid-19 and if they actually are 6 feet long as I thought they got a lot larger than that..
And while we're at it... UT _without_ DST or Summer Time or whatever else it might be called elsewhere. The ridiculous idea of a demented British birder. _Of course_ the politicians went for it!
Oh. On the main story: is this what they mean when they say, "when you have a hammer, every problem looks like a nail"?
In the future they'll probably use it to check for employees stopping for a chat instead of getting back to their soulless box packing job, completely ignoring the fact that happy employees are productive ones and pushing people hard often has the opposite effect of what you want to achieve.
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Because they had to specify a number due to the fact that too many people don't understand how viruses get transmitted and find it easier to just obey and obsess about one or 2 rules. Did you not wonder why we suddenly sold out of hand sanitiser and soap at the beginning of the lock-down? It was because millions of people who previously washed their hands maybe once per day, suddenly realised that they needed to do it 10-15 times per day. Yes, all those people whose hands you were shaking prior to lock-down had NOT washed their hands after using the loo and were wiping their ick onto your hands. The 2 metre rule is irrelevant w.r.t airborne transmission if everyone is wearing a mask but you still need to stop people from touching each other so it's easier to keep it in place as most of us don't have 1 metre long arms. Amazon have a history of combining people and tech to improve efficiency. In this case they are doing it to reduce staff sickness, so are benefiting both their efficiency AND their staff.
Yesterday I noticed a chalk pavement drawing on my street, two (outlined) feet then '2m' then two (outlined) feet. And the two pairs of feet were roughly two feet apart, not two metres apart.
I'd like to think this was satirical because that would be very clever, but I suspect local children just don't know what a metre is. When the schools reopen the first lesson should explain lengths. Children can't stay one or two metres apart if they don't know what a metre is.
My pal is a primary school teacher and I've been (half) jokingly suggesting post-lockdown safety measures. Teach them all outdoors and issue ponchos and thermal underwear. Expel every child who is athletic, talented, good looking or intelligent as these children thrive without qualifications.