Hi Terry
I'm not familiar with the set up of your accomodation; would it be
possible to separate out say 60% of your units and advertise them as
available for quarantine. Possibly providing additional services such
as a visiting nurse and high level cleaning. These units could then be
advertised at a higher dollar rate.
Good luck with the problem, give me a ring if I can help.
Alun Dr Alun PriceDesign Research and Education
https://independentresearcher.academia.edu/AlunPrice
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Hi Jurgen,
Thank you for your comments.
The reason they are 'good' design research questions is they are real
questions that need answers for a real problem.
Our calculations indicate AirBnB hosts are nationally probably the
largest provider of beds for the functionally or transitionally
homeless.
As part of this, my design business provides up to 7500 very
economically-priced bed nights per year through AirBnB.
Around 30% of the bed nights are taken up by functionally and
temporarily homeless people.
These include: women escaping violence, people needing urgent
accommodation after relationship breakup, people between lets, people
house/couch surfing who need their own space temporarily, people from
the bush needing accommodation while undergoing a medical procedure in
the city, travellers etc.
Usually, disease and health is not an issue.
Currently, however, the main requests for AirBnB accommodation are
from returning citizens and travellers needing somewhere to spend 14
days in isolation to check whether they have COVID-19.
Around 80% of COVID-19 cases in Australia are from these returning
citizens and visitors from overseas.
That is, the requests for AirBnB beds are from the highest COVID-19
risk group. These are individuals who have not been tested and are
most likely to have the illness whilst in the AirBnB accommodation.
The core of the problem is about keeping safe the following guests.
It is these factors that present a serious and real social/services
design problem.
With the wrong answers, people will get sick and some will die.
Alternatively, homeless people will be even more homeless. It would be
good to find an optimal solution that will minimise both.
I welcome thoughts and insights.
I raised the questions yesterday because I have to make those
decisions by tomorrow.
Regards,
Terence
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Against Covid-19
Hi Terry,
good questions. We face an interesting discussion here in Europe. We
have seen that the Koreans have mastered the Corona explosion by
tracking cellphones and using technology without curfew. That is
legally not possible in European countries.
On the other side we see curfews in many countries limiting many
human rights.
So what is the right way to control epidemic outbreak?
Your question: How do you design a management protocol that addresses
all the issues and is legally justifiable in a potentially highly
litigious context?
I have no answer, but this is quite an interesting challenge.
Prof. Dr. Jurgen Faust
Macromedia University Munich
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Thanks to Ken for providing a document with guidance for managing
COVID-19 in a home situation.
A real-life urgent social design research problem has emerged here in
Western Australia with a large number of people returning to Australia
unexpectedly.
They are applying to AirBnB to host them for their compulsory 14 day
COVID-19 isolation period. This is an urgent situation that has
emerged in the last 2 days. AirBnB hosts are the biggest supplier of
short-term accommodation in Western Australia for the temporarily
homeless.
Lets put that a different way.
These returning Australians are using AirBnB properties to find out
whether they have COVID -19.
Many of these properties are whole multi-bedroom houses.
The social design challenge is how to manage this situation.
There are many aspects to this, for example:
1. How do you properly clean a multi-room property that has
potentially had someone with COVID-19 in it? For example, how do you
ensure that beds are free of COVID -19?
2. How do you charge for the costs of cleaning (bearing in mind that
many will lie about whether they are a COVID-19 risk)? How does this
work when the cleaning fee is more than the rental fee?
3. In a case where someone is an unknown COVID-19 risk, and the
cleaning is not perfect, and the next AirBnB guests gets COVID-19 and
dies, who is legally and financially responsible? How do you design
the protocols and legal structures to sensibly address all the
combinations of potential liability risk that may occur?
4. How do you design a management protocol that addresses all the
issues and is legally justifiable in a potentially highly litigious
context?
5. ....
Thoughts?
Best wishes,
Terry
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