This is really quite something, although not unexpected given what we have seen. BCCDC would really benefit from adopting a privacy framework instead of just relying on as-hoc decisions.
https://twitter.com/ty_olsen/status/1333165973508014081
It’s really hard to rationalize why publishing weekly counts for Richmond is just fine by doing the same for Burnaby or Surrey would be an “unreasonable invasion of privacy”.
In fact it’s really hard to rationalize disclosure risk at much finer geographies like FSA or City Neighbourhood, when we already identify the existence of cases in school communities.
With fairly large denominators and comparably small numerators the main disclosure risk is people concluding that someone isn’t confirmed to have covid. As is the case with students in a school with no exposure notification. This whole thing is just ridiculous.
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