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rustyhancock | on: Hannah Fry Wins the Leelavati Prize in 2026 for Mathematics Outreach
It's not prophetic. Prophetic means it predicts the future, this is epidimlogical science being applied as intended. It didn't predict the future it designed it because we applied it.

Contagion used GPS logging to predict who was where an applied a random transmission risk based on that.

The actual origin of the Bluetooth proximity and duration tracking was from FluPhone back in 2010 or so[0]

Human contact networks, and epidemiology is a long standing science COVID just made that apparent for the lay public.

Quarantines have existed for centuries, contact tracing is Victorian (smallpox mostly),social distancing, It was all application of research that largely already existed.

[0] https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/srg/netos/projects/archive...

thegabriele | parent
Since you seems well versed in the matter...Did we learn something new from the whole covid experience?
lostlogin | root | parent | next
> Did we learn something new from the whole covid experience?

The hardest part of a 5 day snap lockdown are the first 10 weeks.

nephihaha | root | parent
Yes: * That you sell a six month lockdown by saying it will take two or three weeks. You can do this several times.

* That censorship is essential.

* That any public disagreement will be responded to with terms of personal abuse.

* That you can use it to introduce/try out all kinds of other long-desired schemes like digital ID (so called passports) or increasing working from home.