Add geofence support to enable/disable exposure logging for medical staff

[bdeneuter]

Feature request: Medical staff that is working in hospitals can not use the app because they would always receive high risk alerts as they are working with patients that have Covid 19. It would be handy if the exposure logging is disabled when they enter the hospital and enabled when they leave the hospital

[ErwinP]

I second this, but I'm not quite sure if geofencing would be the most suited solution for this problem.

• Other people visiting the hospital would get their exposure logging disabled (whilst not wearing protective cloating).
• Wouldn't you need to do the same for local doctor practices etc?

It is however something that has to be thought about: currently, healthcare workers are advised to turn off bluetooth once they are at work. But chances are quite high that they will forget to turn it back on.

A solution could be the implementation of a "disable logging"-button that goes hand-in-hand with a persistent notification that warns for the fact that logging is disabled. Due to the persistent nature of such warning, people will be more inclined to turn on logging once they have left work. One could even create a widget on the home screen a tile on the notification panel to toggle the logging.

Kind regards, Erwin

[kekonn]

Actually: if you have Exposure tracking enabled on your device but then prevent it from doing so (i.e. by turning off bluetooth), Android will notify the user about that. On a phone set to Dutch, it looks like this:

This notification appeared immediately as I turned off bluetooth.