Topic: Blockchain can help fighting corona - page 2. (Read 358 times)

I am not sure about that. If you mean is tracking the cases, it is not necessary needes blockchain for that purpose. Blockchain goal cannot be tapped on ths one whatever we think any of help it can give. But it can help those people by using blockchain as a way to spread the help such as donation and using it as fast transaction for funds that will be used for helping affected community or hospitals. Aside from it, I cannot see elsewhere we can utilize it for fighting the corona virus. What we need here is a cure or any vaccine that can kill it totally.

I would rather live in a totaltarian society compared to being dead in a utopian democratic dream.

Come on guys, we have already fastest connections with some non blockchain platforms. There is no relation with connection or communication with corona virus recovery.
Corona virus has not recovery solutions yet. Scientist is looking for a way but there is not!
And I am sure if anyone find any solution, we all will be reach all information quickly.

So there is no blockchain need here now. Just need a cure.

Blockchain can help to fight the coronavirus by using this to make faster connection into the transactions made by different users also it is better if they are trying to do some projects related on this because they can now make a lot of help to the people struggling to find some foods, mask and other stuff they need to survive this kind of pandemic outbreak also be conscious and aware to the projects because not all the time those are legit one because today the scammers and hackers now use and grab this opportunity to take advantage to the people because they know it is the easiest thing to make more earnings.

Are they going to forcefully inject me and take my test?

Probably not but most likely you will not be allowed to fly internationally wihout some proof of immunity.

Any government can create such database without the help of a blockchain technology.
Blockchain will just make the database a little bit more secure and transparent,I don't see any other benefits of such implementation.
By the way,tests aren't 100% accurate and there are doubts about this "coronavirus immunity" theory.
There were many people that were cured from the virus,but got infected again.
Creating a totalitarian society ruled by technologies,just to fight a pandemic sounds really dangerous to me.

Not trying to be "that guy", but I just don't see any reason we'd have to set all of this up, even on Blockchain, just because a pandemic has been out there. Are we trying to return to normal or do we want to split the society into two: the infected ones and the non-infected ones? Because to me it doesn't sound like a "return to normality" at all.

Your idea sounds actually worse than communism. Are we really willing to go that way?

I've been in self quarantine for MONTHS already and I started weeks before my country even had a first case. Why do I have to be forced to do tests, vaccines etc if I have literally respected every single rule and have not been exposed to the virus? Why should my rights be taken away (I mean they already are, but...) because I just do not want to take the test or the vaccine?

Look, here's one thing.
 - I started the self-quarantine by wondering whether a corporation will again be the one to create the vaccine and give it to us. Obviously, not for free. Have you seen the official vaccine candidates? Since when does Bill Gates dictate my life and control my rights? How can I trust a vaccine from someone who said numerous times on TV that we need to reduce population growth?
 - When I heard the WHO say "Test, test, test!" a red alarm sounded off in my brain. I always like to think the opposite of what authorities and high-level organizations tell us. When I heard they said that, I thought "okay, something should be wrong with the tests!" and guess what - weeks later, tests are found to be contamined with the virus.

So right now I'm in this exact situation:
 1. I don't trust the tests;
 2. I don't want someone who's been in thousands of other houses to enter MINE, which was isolated from any risk of the virus infection;
 3. I don't want to take Gates'/J&J's/Moderna's vaccine;
 4. I am not going to install any app or device that permanently tracks me and/or alerts me of nearby infected. Is this a zombie apocalypse and I didn't know?

Are they going to forcefully inject me and take my test? If so and everyone agrees with that, then the future looks terrible and we have all contributed to it by letting each and every right of ours be taken away and literally ask them ourselves to do all the things they're wrongfully doing right now.

So no, using Blockchain doesn't help. It's like putting milk & honey over moulding cereals. Let's use the Blockchain to develop something good for humanity and not something worse-than-communism because I'm very sure that a lot of members out here agree with at least 2 points from the 4 above.

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You're the perfect example of someone who doesn't even read the OP and replies based on what the last replies say. Sad.

Sorry, but we've seen a lot of blockchain projects trying to be developed about food chains. But even in a normal period, we saw that they were not successful and could not progress.

In fact, it's not just about food chains. Blockchain is a great technological development, everyone agrees. But I am not sure how accurate it is to apply to Blockchain to solve all the problems in the world. In other words, Blockchain can not cure all of our problems. Instead, it may be time to use blockchain in the right place and look for more rational solutions in other areas.

That's interesting food for thought but I doubt such a product could be developed fast enough to be useful for the current coronavirus epidemic. Maybe it could be ready for the next epidemic though.

In order to return to some normality it is essential to track corona virus history of everybody. Not very democratic but also very un-avoidable.

What we urgently need is the vaccines and multiple repeated antibody testings.

Medical authority should develop public/private key pairs one for each person an keep the private keys.

All virus related test results should be entered in the block-chain similar to bitcoin transactions now.
In near future when the vaccine is finally developed vaccinations and subsequent antibody tests should be entered in the block chain too.

Once somebody has finally recovered or vaccinated and is medically proven not to be the virus spreading carrier that person should be issued a machine readable ID card with photo ID signed by private key kept by the medical authority.

Special network connected check block chain nodes will allow quick worldwide validation of this ID cards quickly

Only those person can be allowed to travel internationally and provide essential services for other people.

Medical community will develop better tests and hopefully a vaccine soon, but information specialists have to provide non mutable and very robust worldwide tracking system of  persons who have already acquired the corona virus immunity.

That is where block-chain could help solve this crisis sooner.

I would be interested to hear some other proposals on using block-chain in along those lines.