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How do these people get information legally from your private phone to do this study? Using Facebook and your phone's GPS? Anyone have thoughts on this? What are other countries doing?

Abstract Since early March 2020, the COVID-19 epidemic across the United Kingdom has led to a range of social distancing policies, which resulted in changes to mobility across different regions. An understanding of how these policies impacted travel patterns over time and at different spatial scales is important for designing effective strategies, future pandemic planning and in providing broader insights on the population geography of the country.

Crowd level data on mobile phone usage can be used as a proxy for population mobility patterns and provide a way of quantifying in near-real time the impact of social distancing measures on changes in mobility. Here we explore patterns of change in densities, domestic and international flows and co-location of Facebook users in the UK from March 2020 to March 2021.

We find substantial heterogeneities across time and region, with large changes observed compared to pre-pandemic patterns. The impacts of periods of lockdown on distances travelled and flow volumes are evident, with each showing variations, but some significant reductions in co-location rates. Clear differences in multiple metrics of mobility are seen in central London compared to the rest of the UK, with each of Scotland,

Wales and Northern Ireland showing significant deviations from England at times. Moreover, the impacts of rapid changes in rules on international travel to and from the UK are seen in substantial fluctuations in traveller volumes by destination. While questions remain about the representativeness of the Facebook data, previous studies have shown strong correspondence with census-based data and alternative mobility measures, suggesting that findings here are valuable for guiding strategies.

How do these people get information legally from your private phone to do this study? Using Facebook and your phone's GPS? Anyone have thoughts on this? What are other countries doing? Abstract Since early March 2020, the COVID-19 epidemic across the United Kingdom has led to a range of social distancing policies, which resulted in changes to mobility across different regions. An understanding of how these policies impacted travel patterns over time and at different spatial scales is important for designing effective strategies, future pandemic planning and in providing broader insights on the population geography of the country. Crowd level data on mobile phone usage can be used as a proxy for population mobility patterns and provide a way of quantifying in near-real time the impact of social distancing measures on changes in mobility. Here we explore patterns of change in densities, domestic and international flows and co-location of Facebook users in the UK from March 2020 to March 2021. We find substantial heterogeneities across time and region, with large changes observed compared to pre-pandemic patterns. The impacts of periods of lockdown on distances travelled and flow volumes are evident, with each showing variations, but some significant reductions in co-location rates. Clear differences in multiple metrics of mobility are seen in central London compared to the rest of the UK, with each of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland showing significant deviations from England at times. Moreover, the impacts of rapid changes in rules on international travel to and from the UK are seen in substantial fluctuations in traveller volumes by destination. While questions remain about the representativeness of the Facebook data, previous studies have shown strong correspondence with census-based data and alternative mobility measures, suggesting that findings here are valuable for guiding strategies.

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Great comment Mod99. I agree with it all. I've been traveling around the South east for 6 months trying to find an old American town to call home. IMO they no longer exist. Not only are the real estate markets rigged by someone, probably a DS globalist, but you can't find a town with a butcher, bakery and hardware stores. It's like all those warnings in the 90's about the Walmarts and Home Depots of the world destroying main street were spot on. What they didn't tell us was by destroying main street they destroyed our ability to remove ourselves from the globalist corporations which are controlled by the Globalist NWO. Sorry for the rant.

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Sorry for the rant.

No, I appreciate it.

I just got back from a week out of the city. I went to a small town that hasn't seen much growth over the years, and it was sort of like going back in time. Other than the usual McDonald's and 7-11 on the main through-way, the place has kept much of it's original ambiance. Very little damage from the lockdowns, so most of the local small businesses were still operating. It's a railroad town, so it was developed by Masons and they still have a strong presence there, although not noticeable beyond this sign...

https://files.catbox.moe/52trs0.JPG

There isn't a huge influx of immigrants like in the city, although there are a small number of East Indians who have settled in recently. They're typically family-oriented and easy to get along with, but they know how to save money and invest in their future through business and don't care so much about the effect it has on local cultures, so who knows where that will lead. The area has an impoverished native Indian culture, which is a shame because native Indians are some of the easiest to get along with people in the world, and they respect the land and old ways of doing things. They own a lot of the land as reservations but don't have the money or resources to survive against the modern world. As long as they keep their land, the area will stay small and localized. It's mountainous terrain so there isn't much room for big business to set up shop. You might want to consider that while you're looking for a place to call home.

Good luck hunting!

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Thanks for the info friend. Even in the Appalachian Mountains it is either brand new liberal communities that look like Lake Tahoe or it's completely depressed with expensive real estate. The America I grew up in is gone from what I can see. The search continues.

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I hope you find something that works for you.