Hardly a moment goes by without someone urging you to stay home and to social isolate. Not everyone is getting the message, apparently. One example is Spring Breakers flooding to Florida beaches until the Governor closed them.
Via Karl Voit, we have this horrifying animated heat map showing why this matters:
This shows the location data of phones that were on a Florida beach during Spring Break. It then shows where those phones traveled.
First thing you should note is the importance of social distancing. The second is how much data your phone gives off. pic.twitter.com/iokUX3qjeB
— Mikael Thalen (@MikaelThalen) March 26, 2020
Forget about how much privacy information your phone is leaking for a moment and just consider how all those beach goers spread out across the country.
That’s not the worst though. Here’s another, similar heat map showing the diaspora from Manhattan, the epicenter of US COVID-19 cases. It’s terrifying to see how potential carriers spread out over the entire country and even the world.
Thalen wrote an article for The Daily Dot that gives some background information on the videos. It’s definitely worth a look.