Checking out New Contact Tracing Approaches in a Pandemic

Singapore officers added a nationwide, Bluetooth-based mostly contact tracing program known as TraceTogether to their suite of Covid-19-struggling with concepts, which already incorporated human-led tracing. The fresh digital program’s success would rely upon mitigating privateness elements. Would Singaporeans undertake TraceTogether? As Singapore’s authorities spread out the technology to the world, would you? Harvard Business College professor Mitch Weiss discusses his fresh case, “TraceTogether.”

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BRIAN KENNY: Here’s a shared ride within the age of the ranking of things. You’re sitting in your kitchen, having a conversation with your accomplice about what model car you’re pondering of procuring for. You soar on the ranking to enact a puny study and sooner than that that it’s essential to well form within the model and produce, a banner ad pops up that contains exactly what you hang been discussing. Accident? Perchance or is your natty speaker eavesdropping for your conversations and feeding that recordsdata abet to a couple gargantuan recordsdata warehouse within the cloud where it’s being accessed by contaminated entrepreneurs.

As soon as you happen to’re paranoid about safeguarding your own recordsdata, you’re no longer on my own. Genuinely, Pew Evaluation stories that roughly six and 10 US adults utter they enact no longer think it’s that that that it’s essential to well imagine to battle thru day-to-day lifestyles without needing recordsdata serene about them by corporations or the authorities. And 73% in actual fact feel that nearly all of what they enact online or on their cell telephones is being tracked. But what if your lifestyles trusted it? Within the age of COVID-19, it correct could maybe well. This day on Frigid Call, we’ll focus on the case entitled, “TraceTogether,” with case author Mitch Weiss. I’m Brian Kenny, your host, and likewise you’re paying attention to Frigid Call introduced to you by Harvard Business College

Professor Mitch Weiss is an professional on public entrepreneurship who stories digital transformation and innovation ecosystems. He moreover has a guide popping out, Mitch, is that serene on line to come out quickly?

MITCH WEISS: It’s available for pre-disclose now, Brian, and can hang to serene be out January 19th. It’s known as, We the Possibility. And it’s a guide about possibility authorities. And I believe it’s particularly timely in these moments.

BRIAN KENNY: That’s elephantine. So encourage an look for out for that. Thanks for becoming a member of me all once more on the indicate, Mitch. You’ve been on once or twice and we love having you on. This COVID-19 pandemic is serene around us and questions about how we are able to mitigate the spread of the virus, serene loom elephantine. Of us don’t hang your total solutions, however as of late presumably we’ll discover some from this case. So I believe people will in actual fact ride listening to about it. Let me question you to delivery by sharing with us, how would you delivery this case dialogue within the lecture room? What would your chilly name be?

MITCH WEISS: Effectively, some cases as you understand, delivery out with the kind of ultimate question. In this instance it’s, enact you desire something relish Singapore has invented a Bluetooth tracing app for tracing COVID contacts in your bask in nation, however that’s no longer in actual fact where I would delivery. The build I would delivery this case because we’re residing in this kind of live 2nd of COVID is where the case begins in actual fact, which is with human contact tracing with public well being workers and others who enact the laborious work of tracking down people and their likely interactions in disclose to make your mind up a peep at to decrease the chains of transmission for COVID. And so the main question is easy, Brian, I believe, which is in your jurisdiction, the city or the placement whereby you live, is there a human led contact tracing effort going on honest now? And what unfolds from there could be a conversation about well, yes, I believe, and genuinely, most jurisdictions at this 2nd would hang human led contact tracing. It’s a 500 year frail practice, which has been set up into situation writ elephantine for the length of COVID. After which that that it’s essential to question, well, how’s that working? After which the conversation begins to unfold from there since the reality of the matter is while you happen to don’t hang human led contact tracing in your jurisdiction, you fully can hang to serene at this 2nd. It could maybe hang to be crucial within the cease for cutting chains of transmission and allowing people to come to a couple semblance of normalcy. But presumably there’s moreover this other factor you are going to must hang too, which is digitally supported contact tracing, which changed into once the anguish that TraceTogether grew to radically change in Singapore.

BRIAN KENNY: And that opens up a total bunch of things that we’re going to focus on more, however let me question you, how did you hear about this, I bet, why did you are taking out to write the case and the intention in which does it disclose abet to the forms of things that you just’re drawn to as a scholar?

MITCH WEISS: Effectively, before every part what came about changed into after I had organized a form of impromptu conversation abet in March, amongst a bunch of chief recordsdata officers and digital officers, analytics officers of some cities and states largely here within the US. It changed into once a huge ranging conversation, however most on the topic of tracing and tracking around COVID in those early days. What grew to radically change apparent to me on a conversation changed into once that nearly all recordsdata digital form leaders within the US hadn’t but begun to think the leisure discontinuance to digitally supported contact tracing within the US. I came a long way from that name believing that changed into once for two reasons, one, they hang been rightly centered that 2nd on great more urgent concerns, relish what number of health facility rooms enact they hang got and what did the knowledge utter about that? The other cause changed into once that I believe there changed into once aversion to most of those approaches that hang been correct being unfolded in other countries, alongside side the TraceTogether example in Singapore. But I notion that there changed into once a more or much less searching away because this changed into once occurring in Asia. And I notion that there hang been lessons we could maybe well be taught one intention or the change. Absolutely we can hang to serene know about what they hang been doing after which produce our bask in instructed picks about whether or no longer we wanted the leisure relish this or no longer. The other cause is as you and I in actual fact hang talked about within the previous, I glance examples of inaccurate invention interior authorities or bi-partisan corporations for our authorities. In some ways I studied things authorities tries that doubtlessly obtained’t work. And a range of alternative people would set up contact tracing in that bucket, alongside side at the delivery. Jason Bay, the protagonist of this case, I believe had a practical sense that this could maybe simply no longer work. So I changed into once by but another episode of attempting something fresh that could maybe maybe most efficient presumably work in opposition to the backdrop of a virus. In a disaster is that the 2nd to make your mind up a peep at fresh things? Things hang been being rapid to governments in some unspecified time in the future of the world, fresh approaches to make your mind up a peep at. Fancy any public chief’s inbox changed into once flooded with fresh solutions. And the question changed into once, how enact you sort out the ones that wishes to be tried and the ones that are total foolishness?

BRIAN KENNY: And for our listeners who don’t know, Mitch, your background is particularly relish minded to this since you hang been the executive of workers for Boston’s mayor Tom Menino for a couple of years. So you’ve had frontline ride of what it’s need to decide a peep at and enforce a fresh protection or a fresh initiative all over a prime metropolitan city. Does something that works in Singapore, work there attributable to the formulation Singapore has dominated and the intention in which they’re location up. And is that produce it advanced to enforce that in diversified locations, particularly as we peek on the US for listeners who haven’t been to Singapore, can you correct portray a puny bit about how they govern themselves?

MITCH WEISS: Effectively, Singapore, as you said, it’s a city insist and it’s a comparatively younger one and it’s got about 5.6 million people. The factor that struck me changed into once how competent all and sundry changed into once that we spoke to that worked in their authorities. And I utter that moderately for a change of reasons. One, they obviously hang a particular produce of authorities than utter as an instance, here within the United States. And moreover I’m no longer one who buys into this yarn that folk in authorities are inherently incompetent. So as that one wishes to be critically surprised at the same time as you meet somebody who knows what they’re doing, I don’t imagine that at all. But at Singapore locations an particularly excessive funding within the quality and functionality and sources of their authorities. As soon as you happen to suspect about, can you are attempting something relish TraceTogether where that that it’s essential to well be, I believe that that it’s essential to well be searching to first have in mind the real fact that the those who constructed this are basically the most efficient at what they enact. They hang people that think laborious about privateness and privateness law. And all once more, I believe that there’s a lot more of that in authorities than we ever give credence to, however this changed into once a routine case besides.

BRIAN KENNY: And so they hang been moderately fast to acknowledge the risk of COVID-19 since the case starts abet in, I believe it’s January, they had experienced other pandemics within the previous that doubtlessly set up them in a more inclined and extremely alert situation. Is that safe to convey?

MITCH WEISS: Yeah, that’s precisely factual. Clearly, they hang been great more proximate to convey Wuhan or any parts of China than utter we could maybe well be here within the United States. After which as you utter, attributable to the prior pandemics that threatened the placement, some had come no longer as unsuitable as they had panicked about in Singapore, however it indubitably had made them willing. On January 23rd, when the authorities confirmed the main case of COVID-19 in Singapore, they hang been already with a in actual fact total program to make your mind up a peep at to tackle it. That incorporated among other things, a human contact tracing led effort out of their ministry of well being at once discovered a particular person that had traveled from China to Singapore. They’d known that this particular person had what we now know as COVID-19. And so they had already traced his contacts and begun the an identical boom with him that they hang been doing with thousands of others over the course of the next many months.

BRIAN KENNY: So their means changed into once that the handbook contact tracing means, which I believe most of the people understand is, you’ve got somebody who tests distinct. You strive to query them who they’ve engaged with, after which you strive to music those people down and so on and so forth. Why no longer correct follow that? Had been there gaps in that that they known early on that made them take into yarn pursuing this other course?

MITCH WEISS: Jason Bay had some gaps in solutions and changed into once the one to counsel this to a couple of his colleagues on the Ministry of Effectively being. He had in solutions I believe a few of the functionality weaknesses of handbook tracing and particularly within the context of COVID. So all once more, I are searching to make certain, I believe Jason notion that handbook tracing changed into once fully crucial. Fancy regarded as one of the predominant main things that participants in Singapore would boom you changed into once, while you happen to’re pondering doing digital most efficient you’re making a mistake. Effectively, Singapore’s foundational effort changed into once handbook led tracing, and that changed into once a key foundation. The formulation handbook tracing works is we name you up, Brian and I utter, where hang been you the day old to this? And presumably you identify into consideration your talk over with to Starbucks and even you don’t, who hang been you in step with? Effectively, you don’t know who changed into once within the abet of you. One weak point is preserve discontinuance and recollection of who you hang been near and for how prolonged and below what conditions. Diversified weaknesses embody scamper. As all people knows now, if we don’t mercurial be taught who potentially changed into once contaminated and who else they’ll simply’ve potentially contaminated and decrease those chains on transmission, then the community spread occurs and occurs broadly. And so scamper here is a enviornment in handbook tracing could maybe well even be laborious. It is laborious. There are other contexts where digitally supported tracing could maybe simply be priceless. That it’s essential to well presumably imagine in countries where that that it’s essential to well’t reach all and sundry by cell phone. And as an instance, this changed into once the case for the length of the Ebola disaster where well being workers needed to gallop in particular person and gallop talk over with those who adds one more layer of danger to the handbook led efforts. And so for reasons of scamper, after which moreover of scale. The handbook tracing is laborious and so it’s gradual, however that moreover means that it’s laborious to effect as many other people as that that it’s essential to well need while you happen to’re in an environment where the illness is spreading fairly without be aware. And in yelp that’s why the day after Singapore had confirmed their first case, he moreover reached out to a colleague on the ministry of well being in Singapore and said, “Hey, I in actual fact hang a query for you. What would you believe you studied about a digitally oriented effort?”

BRIAN KENNY: I love that that that it’s essential to hang the customary e mail within the case. That’s so frosty to kind of glimpse that doc and the alternate they’d. I moreover notion it changed into once in actual fact appealing after they decided they hang been going to make your mind up a peep at to pursue a digital means here where that concept originated from. Can you correct portray that mercurial? Who came up with the postulate for the app that they within the cease pursued?

MITCH WEISS: Effectively, relish all solutions, there’s doubtlessly many moms and fathers, however I will boom you where Jason himself would impress abet him listening to in regards to the postulate. So there hang been some pc scientists, alongside side Katayoun Farrahi, who had written about this likely abet in 2014. But I believe regarded as one of the predominant things that changed into once on Jason’s solutions, which had so struck me is why segment of the case is that there hang been two 16 year olds, excessive college students in Virginia within the United States who abet in 2015 had kind of obtained third prize on the Worldwide Science and Engineering Comely-

BRIAN KENNY: Third prize.

MITCH WEISS: Third prize.

BRIAN KENNY: Yeah.

MITCH WEISS: Certain, third prize. Certain, I would’ve given first prize. No, however yes, third prize for customarily an concept in regards to the expend of smartphones and their means to kind of detect proximity as a tool for contact tracing. What came about changed into once this excessive college sophomore on the time Rohan Suri had been what’s going on in Ebola, sitting in his excessive college class within the United States, midway internationally, seeing the more or much less risks and danger and bounds that human led efforts had and changed into once pondering, could maybe well I make something that could maybe maybe be supportive in that effort and proposed it and a few alternative times alongside the formulation, it kind of gets positioned on the shelf and is sitting there. And moreover in Jason’s solutions, he came about to hang heard about it when MERS emerged in Singapore after which later when COVID did. One among the things that we focus on within the guide and moreover in my class on public entrepreneurship is set how enact governments come up with fresh solutions. And regarded as one of the predominant notions is that they need to delivery themselves as much as the outdoors for solutions and yes, even customarily excessive college sophomores on the change side of the world. So it’s a provocative example of we’re inclined to belief the consultants and God knows honest now there’s been too puny adherence and credence given to a couple of the world’s elephantine consultants. I’m no longer suggesting in any respect that we delivery to ignore science fairly the change, however within the peek fresh solutions and fresh solutions, I believe it’s crucial moreover to delivery your self as much as potentially other people besides. It moreover then raises for us how fraught this is, because customarily it will simply be that the excessive college sophomore has an theory that’s price running with. And so how enact we sort that out is judicious one of the predominant elephantine riddles of possibility authorities and public entrepreneurship.

BRIAN KENNY: So, disclose us how does the app work? Fancy what’s the postulate here? How enact you digitize this job?

MITCH WEISS: The theorem that is that customarily, while you happen to could maybe harness the Bluetooth that we all hang in our smartphones, that that it’s essential to well expend its signal strength as a proxy for proximity. So Brian while you happen to and I are discontinuance together and our telephones can detect each and each other’s Bluetooth indicators, and they’re fairly solid than the app will know we’re discontinuance together and if we transfer farther apart, then the app would know that we hang been farther apart. And in theory, we could maybe well music customarily the Bluetooth indicators alongside people’s telephones, we could maybe well know how prolonged they had been together and the intention in which discontinuance. And those two elements radically change predominant for assessing the risk of transmitting COVID or catching it. The TraceTogether app that they constructed in Singapore, the formulation it works is it tracks these contacts for your cell phone, no longer within the cloud, no longer on some authorities net net site, it keeps it for your cell phone and instructed the 2nd whereby utter you discover diagnosed distinct for COVID-19 and likewise you’re invited to upload that recordsdata to the Ministry of Effectively being in Singapore. And what they’re going to enact with that record of… at this point, by the formulation, it’s all nameless for your cell phone, however you upload it to the Ministry of Effectively being. They’re ready to make expend of that recordsdata to supplement the handbook led efforts to make your mind up a peep at to effect out to and contact a few of the people that that it’s essential to well presumably hang been in contact with. If each and each you and people people hang been running the app on their cell phone. And this changed into out to be predominant. The app most efficient works if each and each people within the interplay had the app and had the app running and running performing on their cell phone. And at that point, the authorities does hang discover genuine of entry to to those anonymized IDs that allow them to effect out to people that could maybe maybe’ve been in contact with you.

BRIAN KENNY: So, it’s Bluetooth based mostly, no longer GPS, I bet that alleviates the difficulty about somebody knows all my movements, they know exactly where I’m going, however it indubitably does require engaging participation by somebody who has the app previous correct loading the app for your cell phone. There’s stuff that it’s essential to hang to enact. So how did they roll it out? What changed into once the intention whereby they let people know about it?

MITCH WEISS: There changed into once a gargantuan communications push on their social media, on the authorities’s WhatsApp page, thru non-public corporations, thru labor organizations, there changed into once a gargantuan push to ask people to build this on their cell phone. And I believe that changed into once a matter of partnership and it changed into once moreover a matter of messaging. One among the messages in Singapore changed into once that we’re all safer together. The concept is to provide protection to your self and shield your loved ones, however moreover shield your community. This is a collective endeavor, if we all enact this, we’ll all be safer together.

BRIAN KENNY: I’ve had the factual fortune to be in Singapore sooner than, it’s a stupendous situation. And its people know about its reputation for being easy and spruce and well lope. So there’s a cultural factor there where people are more or much less appealing to expend principles it appears to be like. They know that the stakes are excessive within the event that they don’t. And I’m questioning if that facilitated adoption of something relish this, where the authorities says, we’re safer together. So that it’s essential to hang to serene in actual fact enact this. And people in actual fact hear.

MITCH WEISS: I believe it’s completely correct that there could be a sense of collective action there. It didn’t indicate that this factor got downloaded wholesale, where there changed into once an early burst of downloads. But as the case ends, it’s no longer certain that they’ll discover wherever near the penetration rate they need to produce it efficient. It’d be a mistake, a minimum of as the case ends to think that, Oh, there changed into once some easy adherence to this authorities desire and all and sundry went to download the app. It’s correct that wasn’t the enviornment as the cases ending a couple of weeks after the app has been launched. In addition as here within the United States honest now obviously, we’re wrestling with this veil debate and the question of particular person responsibility and collective responsibility. And I believe, all once more, the people in Singapore could maybe well be the main to reveal you shouldn’t undertake TraceTogether out of the box, as an instance, that that that it’s essential to hang to hang particular things in situation in your nation, alongside side a human led effort as a foundation, alongside side belief in establishments and belief in authorities. It’s no longer certain within the meanwhile that now we hang enough belief in authorities in disclose to supply this work. And that creates a staunch enviornment. We then stop up searching to the non-public corporations and peek to Google and Apple and what they are doing on exposure notification to make your mind up a peep at to supplement it, however it indubitably could maybe simply well no longer be enough. And so regarded as one of the predominant many elephantine tragedies of COVID, one could maybe very well be that we had such broken authorities in such broken belief in authorities that we weren’t ready to provide protection to ourselves or shield our communities in ways in which we presumably can hang, or will must hang.

BRIAN KENNY: Absolutely the case raises the difficulty of how safe is your recordsdata, honest? And we’ve seen a total bunch examples, unfortunately within the final few years of major recordsdata breaches, no longer by the palms of authorities, however with non-public organizations relish Equifax and Aim and corporations relish that which hang been hacked and had recordsdata leaked. And Europe has gone as a long way as passing regulations to forestall a few of those or to mitigate the probability of those things with GDPR. So it makes me shock how appealing are people to allow themselves to be adopted on this formulation or to relinquish this more or much less recordsdata to a 3rd event?

MITCH WEISS: We’ve seen leaks by non-public corporations and by authorities. So yes, the Equifax or currently the hack of Twitter, however moreover on the situation of job of personnel management within the US authorities. So we glimpse this enviornment in some unspecified time in the future of in public and non-public, and that’s why there’s been a response on the overall public and non-public side in terms of law here within the US. Less so obviously, GDPR in Europe and law in diversified locations. In Singapore, they hang got a terrific location of practices around non-public firm gathering recordsdata and moreover the overall public administration gathering and the expend of recordsdata. The foundations that they fight to undertake in constructing TraceTogether, or to fully decrease the volume of recordsdata they needed to amass at all to supply this work, to supply it fully voluntary, to make certain that voters hang been instructed about what they hang been doing, to make your mind up a peep at to adhere to the principles of something that could maybe maybe be in relish a GDPR or in identical regulations and insurance policies they had in Singapore. In this example, what they’re collecting are these anonymized IDs that the Ministry of Effectively being could maybe well at final expend to effect out to somebody and utter, that that it’s essential to well presumably hang been in contact with somebody who tested distinct for COVID, however they don’t hang your enviornment all once more since it’s no longer GPS. How enact you tackle people’s willingness? Effectively, one factor you enact is you strive to have these merchandise or any product in disclose to decrease the volume of recordsdata series in terms of quantity and in terms of time. The other factor I believe that it’s essential to hang to enact hang a staunch deliberative conversation in regards to the tradeoffs. Jason, as an instance, would utter, peek, there’s a tradeoff here between privateness and utility. Adoption is ceaselessly rising characteristic of each and each. So we are able to produce these objects more non-public, however then they’ll be much less priceless. We are able to produce them much less non-public, however then there’ll be much less adopted. That it’s essential to maybe simply hang to strike the honest balance. And a change of students hang written that peek each and each time governments or non-public corporations for that matter expend crises as an event to insert in most of those actions, within the US you believe you studied abet to 911, they don’t roll those abet. So while you happen to provide the authorities momentary permission, these scholars would argue, you’re giving them in actual fact prolonged-time length permission and I believe that’s a in actual fact severe argument. When most of those apps hang been being rolled out people said, Oh no, privateness, privateness, privateness. This is surveillance. And I believe one dejected resolution is yes, it’s a long way. Human contact tracing is named literally epidemiological surveillance. It’s been in situation for 500 years and it’s comprise factual and unsuitable. What you glimpse now are societies and community other people wrestling with that query.

BRIAN KENNY: Are there other identical apps that are being developed? So Jason’s got… he’s transferring ahead with this one. I would establish there’s other efforts that are being mounted in numerous locations.

MITCH WEISS: There are heaps. Many various countries and regions raced ahead with various efforts. Some are Bluetooth based mostly. Some are GPS based mostly, some weren’t organized on the actual person level at all. Some hang been organized around how enact we music overall levels of mobility recordsdata, or other things relish that. There are entrepreneurs within the market honest now making an strive to have corporations around this technology. I talked about, obviously, Rohan Suri is a form of alternative people constructing those corporations. The most prominent change to something relish this is what Google and Apple hang set up together, a location of protocols to assess with what they now name Publicity Notification, is mainly walking around with your Android based mostly smartphone or your iPhone and other people hang been running the an identical intention. Then you definately could maybe well even be notified while you happen to had come in contact with somebody who at final test distinct for COVID, however apparently, Apple and Google’s is explicitly no longer linked with offering the authorities your recordsdata. So in disclose to be great more privateness maintaining, Brian, what would happen changed into once if I had COVID and likewise you and I spent time together, we’re obviously no longer together in my concept now, however we had spent time together, and I tested distinct later, I would upload that recordsdata. Truly, your cell phone would discover a notification that somebody, you wouldn’t know who, somebody you hang been in contact with had been diagnosed with COVID-19, you’d be notified. That’s why it’s known as Publicity Notification. The authorities is out of the loop in that enviornment, the overall public well being workers are out of the loop in that enviornment. One among the contentions that Bay and his workers had in Singapore is that while they understand the privateness advantages of doing something that’s great more decentralized in their very bask in means, it comes with the detriment that there’s no human loop to boom judgment about how intense that exposure could maybe well’ve been. Had been you singing in choir when this came about or changed into once it something more passive? There’s no one initiating a conversation necessarily to query you about your supports. As soon as you happen to quarantine, will that it’s essential to hang discover genuine of entry to to food? Pause that it’s essential to hang income? So basically the most valuable change honest now could maybe well be the Apple and Google means.

BRIAN KENNY: Mitch, this has been a elephantine conversation. I’ve got one final question for you. And it’s correct in terms of summarizing things. What’s the one factor you desire our listeners to make your mind up into consideration after they turn off the podcast?

MITCH WEISS: I believe the greatest factor is that fresh solutions are very laborious to distinguish upfront whether or no longer they’re worthy or no longer. There changed into once a in actual fact valuable organizational behavioral scholar, his name is Jim March and he pale to convey that customarily, “It’s very laborious to distinguish inspiration from lunacy.” I believe that’s correct. And I believe it’s been, particularly on this COVID has been a range of inspiration. There’s been a range of lunacy and it’s very laborious to distinguish upfront. It’s easy to achieve that swallowing Lysol is lunacy, however it indubitably’s great more challenging while you happen to peek on the broad vary of solutions. And I believe our instinct is to low cost too steadily solutions that could maybe maybe seem a puny bit within the market. I bet one factor I’d invite people from a case relish this is to think whether or no longer, in its build of discounting those things upfront, however could maybe well you build together a job, an organization, and a job that expend sorting out and experimentation and paid staunch attention to recordsdata and proof that allowed you to make your mind up a peep at out fresh things that seem relish presumably they wouldn’t work, however most efficient presumably could maybe well. March moreover had said, “Gaze, what now we hang to enact is be inpatient with frail solutions and patient with fresh ones.” And I believe that turns out to be a in actual fact crucial lesson of the COVID response writ elephantine, which has the things we had in situation to take care of this presumably weren’t as adequate as we notion they wishes to be. Perchance we’re going to must hang been more patient with fresh solutions, give fresh approaches some breathing room and some probability so we could maybe well fight this factor more adeptly.

BRIAN KENNY: Spoken relish an actual entrepreneurship professor there, Mitch. Thanks all once more so great for becoming a member of us as of late. And proper disclose us but another time, what the name of your guide is? So if people are , they are able to gallop safe it.

MITCH WEISS: So the guide is named, We the Possibility.

BRIAN KENNY: Superior. Thanks Mitch.

MITCH WEISS: Take care.

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