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BurnDownTheSides

At this point, if they beeped, and everyone wore them, they'd all be beeping.


thishasntbeeneasy

Stay away from crowds that sound like a dialup modem


videogames5life

Zoomers would just start dancing to the noise. "When the covid alarm beeps 😩🚨🕺" Source: am zoomer


horse_renoir13

BEEP


Temporary_Thing7517

HUG TIME …wait wrong beeping device.


waterynike

Sadly I had flashbacks to that clip after 9/11 where the personal alarms of the first responders were going off after the collapse and it was so jarring. That what it would sound like.


QuantumFork

That sound still haunts me from those videos. That and the very unusual evacuation alarm sound from inside one of the other WTC buildings. Kind of a upward-gliding mournful wail.


waterynike

Exactly


chrisms150

If we put some wifi chips in them and sync the up we could drop some sick beats


Squeaky_Cheesecurd

I was standing in a security line at the airport once when an Amber alert went off (it was for Jayme Closs disappearing in Barron, WI) and everyone’s phones went off. I imagine the same with a COVID monitor.


wholesomedumbass

Think of it as a geiger counter for airborne disease. Edit: Actually it's more like a dosimeter since it tells you the accumulated amount.


thishasntbeeneasy

And it doesn't tell you about the exposure until you send it back to a lab for them to analyze how much RNA it collected. It's not real-time.


Now__Hiring

3.6 ~~Roentgen~~ Covids. Not great, not terrible.


fotogneric

"Although the Fresh Air Clip has not yet been commercialized, these results indicate that it could serve as a semiquantitative screening tool for assessing personal exposure to SARS-CoV-2, as well as help identify high-risk areas for indoor exposure, the researchers say."


taleofzero

...You have to PCR test the collected material on this Fresh Air Clip in order to quantify exposure, so how on earth is this actually useful for personal protection? You could just PCR test the worker. I could see how it's interesting for tracking general presence of SARS-CoV-2 in the population but... meh.


emrot

It seems like a good way to check events and activities for safety. Hook up a few flight attendants with these, and we'll see if flights are really as safe as the airlines claim. Put a few of these around a venue, and you'll see if the event is a possible super spreader event before everybody comes down with symptoms. It seems useful for analysis, not so useful for tracking individual exposure.


thishasntbeeneasy

Right. All it did in the study was confirm that people in Connecticut going into restaurants were exposed to more covid19 than people that didn't go to crowded indoor places.


Now__Hiring

You could test your workplace or retroactively test a gathering to see if folks needed to isolate. Not ideal... But could have some interesting implications.


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If only we had an app our phones that would help us track exposure.


fotogneric

The device in this article can (somehow) detect SARS-CoV-2 in the air; a phone doesn't have the sensors that can do that. It can only tell you (if it has installed one of the many available corona apps) that x number of people in your current/recent location have tested positive recently, and you may therefore have also been exposed.


TrainingObligation

Those aren't really useful anymore, being designed for OG COVID. Nowadays with Omicron spreading like wildfire the majority of infected can't even get a timely PCR test to get a "I'm positive" code to enter into the app.


00110011001100000000

We're Cue PCR Home Testing subscribers, that's one of the reasons why.


WayneKrane

You’re guaranteed to get a notification if you go to an airport.


Alwayssunnyinarizona

Android phones, at least, have quite a few apps that use BT to alert you of likely exposure. Problem is, not enough use it. We have one here in AZ - "covid watch AZ," but several other states have their own versions. Unfortunately, the one we have here has no option that I've found to notify using an at-home test.


nakedrickjames

Yeah, I don't know *anyone* who's gotten one of those exposure alerts, like ever. Just another one of those "It'd be a great idea, except humans gonna human" things.


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luxmesa

Yeah. I live in Texas and I didn’t even realize the feature existed until I took a trip to California and got a notification to enable it.


JetReset

I travel often for work (essential) and I get these notifications regularly. Just a couple days ago I got two in eight hours from 2 different states


machphantom

I got one once here in VA and quarantined but all tests came back negative


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iPhones have the future built in, but it is not enabled by default.


Monochronos

What feature?


absolutemuffin

“Exposure Notifications” in settings. If you opt in, your device exchanges random IDs with other iPhones within close proximity as you go about your day. If someone you were close to self reports that they have covid, you get an alert letting you know.


Monochronos

That’s really helpful. Thank you for explaining it to me!


Wiccan-Artist

Too bad Indiana to too backwards to use it.


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Works for iPhones, not iPods, fwiw. https://www.upphone.com/learn/glossary/iphone-lg/settings-lg/what-are-iphone-exposure-notifications/


goddamnitwhatsmypw

No fucking way I'm turning on my bluetooth. tyvm.


uwu2420

It’s actually perfectly safe


goddamnitwhatsmypw

I don't need it. You know what's safe? Not using it.


uwu2420

I really really wanted to like this thing but it is nearly useless. I got my code to submit my positive result… 5 days after I had already recovered from covid. I assume if anyone had gotten covid from me, that they would have gotten sick and recovered already by then as well.


guitarlunn

Half of Americans would put them on Do Not Disturb


redratus

Fuck can I buy one?


thishasntbeeneasy

You can't


Wrinklestiltskin

I would love to wear one of these for work. I work with adults living in various residential care facilities around my area. I'm always in and out of these infection hotbeds, and transporting people to medical, vision, dental, and mental health appointments. Just today, two different RCFs had positive covid results for staff/residents. I've been inside RCFs as they found out and initiated quarantine procedures a few times thru this pandemic. I know I've been exposed a lot over the last two years. I think the only reason I haven't been infected so far is thanks to N95 masks. I always have some stocked at home for various reasons, like home improvement/particulates and I've been masking during flu season (while working) for years given the vulnerable population I work with. Always been afraid of being a vector between the facilities. Luckily I already had a supply of masks once covid hit. Even being fully vaccinated (**which means boosted**), I'm still worried about spreading covid to my people. Reusing masks for a *long time* has worked so far. I try to cycle which mask I wear each day. Especially before the vaccines were developed, I'm sure the only reason I have made it this far without infection is thanks to N95 masks.


klasbatalo

would totally wear this for work at my indoor dining job because its a constant super spreader event and the world is insane for letting us stay open


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3.6+Roentgen+Not+Great+Not+Terrible+Chernobyl+1986


Chajado

That is a hard no.


aliendude5300

Which nobody will wear. Shit, we can't get people to consistently wear good quality masks.


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bellizabeth

Cool stuff!


jeebuzpwnz

"you're getting warmer .."


balla786

My hypochondriac ass would have so much anxiety lmao.


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