Is that the longed-for solution for club operators and disco owners? Germany wants to revive the battered exit scene. In the city of Stuttgart, distance trackers the size of a credit card are used as test. They warn visitors if they get too close.
This field test is intended to help identify close contact persons of infected people in nightlife, as the “Focus” reports. This is how it works: Visitors to a disco or club receive the tracker, which thanks to its size can easily be stowed in the pocket. If there is too close personal contact, the person concerned is alerted with a beep or hum.
Negative reactions to tracker test
With the test run, the city wants to relieve the health authorities and save resources in laboratories and test stations. Stuttgart wants to invest the equivalent of around 540,000 francs for this. Should the local council decide in favor of the project on Thursday, it will run for nine months on a trial basis.
The reactions in the network are critical, however. One user wrote on Twitter: “I think it is disproportionate and wrong to develop technologies that measure with ten centimeters exactly which people come when and where. This type of surveillance does more harm than good. ”
Others judge the attempt as “pointless” or find that the test attempt is simply months too late.
Data is important to learn about the virus
Thomas Lehr, pharmacy professor at Saarland University and co-initiator of the project, understands the concerns: “I understand when people are afraid of their data, that’s why you have to provide clarification,” he told Focus. Lehr wants to find out more about the virus and therefore says: “If you want to learn something, you also have to look at the data.”
The fact that aerosols also play a role in the contagion in addition to the distance indoors should be included in the evaluation of the scientific project, for example, says Lehr. (ouch)