Ask HN: Can we repurpose Tinder to fight Covid-19?

Posted by cevans01 on Saturday March 21, 2020 @12:09PM
from the ask-hn dept.

After reading this news story of a Yale student and his friend delivering groceries to elderly folks[0], I wonder if we can repurpose Tinder to scale this up.

From what I remember, Tinder allows you to set a preferred age range. If young folks set their preferred age to 65-80 and older folks set their preferred age range to 20-40, we can match people in need of groceries with volunteers.

Recipients and volunteers will just need to put a blurb in their bio about what they need or what they can deliver/provide.

[0] https://apnews.com/bda9c1ed0f8e10742ad2feabb2d52aa2?utm_medium=AP&utm_source=Twitter&utm_campaign=SocialFlow

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Re:Ask HN: Can we repurpose Tinder to fight Covid-19? by KerryJones on Saturday March 21, 2020 @01:13PM (#22647997)

I like this idea, but young people can be carriers with no/mild-symptoms and might increase risk?

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Re:Ask HN: Can we repurpose Tinder to fight Covid-19? by cevans01 on Saturday March 21, 2020 @01:25PM (#22648098)

I figure, the elderly will need to get groceries somehow. It's a question of what is more sanitary: going to the grocery store or having groceries delivered.

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Re:Ask HN: Can we repurpose Tinder to fight Covid-19? by codingdave on Saturday March 21, 2020 @02:10PM (#22648457)

The stores are specifically setting aside hours for elderly patrons, sanitizing everything before and during those hours, and giving everyone the physical space and cleanliness necessary to safely get their groceries. I could see a delivery service also being as clean as possible, but not randos off Tinder.

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Re:Ask HN: Can we repurpose Tinder to fight Covid-19? by roschdal on Saturday March 21, 2020 @12:54PM (#22647860)

No.

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Re:Ask HN: Can we repurpose Tinder to fight Covid-19? by buboard on Sunday March 22, 2020 @07:34AM (#22654230)

Tinder should have shut down a week ago. Random hookups are a transmission vector

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