Googlehas announcedthat it ’s partnering with the White House to make a national coronavirus web site , which is totally related towhatever the hellthe governing body was talking about at Friday ’s press conference . There , President Donald Trump immensely oversold and misattributedan upcoming , purportedly Google - fly the coop projectto build a “ nationwide ” coronavirus screening web site to direct people to nearby “ drive through ” examination bet on their symptom .
In realism — as Google clarified in a frantic tweet just hours later — such a tool is barely in its trial stage at Verily , Google ’s sister - companionship under the Alphabet umbrella , and it will only be utile for people in the San Francisco Bay Area for the foreseeable future . It purportedlywasn’t even intended to be publically availableuntil White House stave dropped the ball .
A person familiar with the affair toldthe New York Timesthat Verily ’s original program ( not a website — that ’s still yet to be announce ) is planned to establish Monday and can direct Bay Area house physician exhibiting flagged symptoms to a totality of three examination locating . While still absolutely praiseworthy , do n’t get me wrong , that ’s still significantly different and scaled - down from what Trump and co. were selling .
President Donald Trump, surrounded by members of the White House’s coronavirus task force, discusses the national emergency at a Saturday press conference.Photo: Jim Watson (Getty)
https://gizmodo.com/what-the-fuck-was-that-1842319984
But no worries , because Google ’s purportedly work on something mistily alike , so it turns out the prexy was right all along , hooray ! Please pay no tending to the man behind the curtain .
“ Google is partnering with the US Government in develop a nationwide internet site that includes selective information about COVID-19 symptoms , risk and examination information , ” the search giant ’s communications and public thing team tweeted Saturday eve .
Which surely sounds like it ’ll just be aggregate all the information already presently pronto usable at theCenters for Disease Control and Prevention ( CDC)’swebsite . Google ’s also added a “ home page publicity ” Sunday call Do the Five that you might have already remark today ; again , just repeating the same lead public health functionary have been doing for hebdomad now ( rinse your mitt , cover your coughing , keep your hand off your face , etc . ) in sententious leaning strain .
Neither of which , mind you , resemble anything like a tool where substance abuser anywhere in the area can enter their symptom into a questionnaire and have feedback about whether they need examination and where to get it , as explained Friday by White House coronavirus response coordinator Dr. Deborah Birx and her incomprehensible play along flowchart for a site that does not exist .
Apparently , this on-going shit show ( chart included ) can be trace back to the president ’s boy - in - law , Jared Kushner . Man , that guy cable sure has been havinga frightening , horrifying , no good , very unfit week .
According to arecent New York Times report , Kushner met with Verily ’s CEO this week to discourse how the fellowship could kick in to the presidency ’s bodge coronavirus response , which so far has been rife withtop - level miscommunications , casual xenophobia , andmassive testing postponement . The chief operating officer gave him a rundown of Verily ’s prepare project to screen users and direct them to nearby testing centers , with doubtful plans to roll it out beyond California eventually , and it seems Kushner and the rest of the Union coronavirus response squad ran very , very far with this information .
https://gizmodo.com/dont-worry-donald-trumps-son-in-laws-sister-in-laws-fa-1842315332
Yes , in casing you have n’t heard , the organization ’s purportedly tasked Kushner with find “ relevant political party ” to remind in the president on how to care this whole “ global pandemic ” business . Earlier this hebdomad , he proved himself specially competent at the task by employing one of the most time - honored scientific fact - finding methods : a Facebook poll .
Given the widespread literary criticism of Trump ’s response , it seems he jumped at the chance to show off some touchable merchandise of his constant self-praise to exploit the private sphere for help deal the outbreak . At a press conference Saturday afternoon , Vice President Mike Pence attempted to take the air back expectations , admitting that it ’d be limited to the Bay Area , at least at first . Though he was still erroneously maintaining that “ he could n’t be more grateful to all the people at Google set up this together , ” which totaled 1,700 engineer according to Trump ’s early instruction .
In actuality , Kushner and Alphabet ’s CEO , Sundar Pichai , spoke about the internet site for the first time Friday eve , an administration functionary tell the Times . in all probability the impulsion for all the coronavirus - related development Google announce the next 24-hour interval that may or may not have been in the whole kit before Trump ’s gaff .
As for that chart , it was a rushed test copy of construct from Kushner ’s team , so no one from Verily nor Google had any manus in it .
And while that brings to a unaired many of the questions that have been plaguing me about it this weekend , I still have a few I need answered . Namely , why is “ drive through ” in quotes , and why — with technically two right ways to spell it — did they choose neither ?
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