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Re:Police told not to download NHS Covid-19 app by winphone1974 on Monday September 28, 2020 @01:45PM (#24619297)
My guess is that contact times and distances are targeting unprotected citizens in their day to day. Police interact with a much more at risk target demographic but with better protection, protocols and awareness. This lack of calibration would probably trigger way more false positives
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Re:Police told not to download NHS Covid-19 app by iainmerrick on Monday September 28, 2020 @07:13PM (#24622258)
better protection, protocols and awareness

What do you base that on? I don’t think the police are wearing masks at any greater rate than any other profession, for example. What makes them less at risk?

I’d assume that police are being neither more nor less cautious than anyone else, on average, and are at relatively high risk just due to the nature of their jobs. If so it would be beneficial to the police and to everyone else for the police to use COVID contact tracing apps.

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