{"id":2650,"date":"2014-12-11T16:58:28","date_gmt":"2014-12-11T16:58:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.168.3.178\/?p=2650"},"modified":"2021-09-20T09:25:08","modified_gmt":"2021-09-20T08:25:08","slug":"the-surprisingly-easy-app-of-the-week-sickweather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/2014\/12\/11\/the-surprisingly-easy-app-of-the-week-sickweather\/","title":{"rendered":"The Surprisingly Easy App of the Week: Sickweather"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s Thursday, which means it\u2019s time for another surprisingly easy app of the week!<\/p>\n<p>This week, we\u2019re going to help you avoid getting ill before Christmas with Sickweather&#8230;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h4>What is it?<b> <\/b><\/h4>\n<p>Sickweather is \u201d\u02dcthe world\u2019s first Doppler radar for sickness\u2019, which basically means that it tells you where sick people have been so you can avoid them. The app uses social media and geotagging to identify \u201d\u02dcoutbreaks\u2019 of the cold, flu, norovirus and all kinds of other nasty illnesses.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h4>Why is it surprisingly easy?<\/h4>\n<p>Getting a cold is literally the worst part of Winter, so it\u2019s nice to be able to identify where sick people have been using Sickweather\u2019s slightly terrifying \u201d\u02dcheatmaps\u2019 and steer well clear (or cover your mouth and run while in a \u201d\u02dcsickness danger zone\u2019 &#8211; whatever floats your boat). You even get live updates when you enter a sick zone, which is useful but a wee bit scary too.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h4>The best bit<\/h4>\n<p>When someone says \u201d\u02dcoh, I think there\u2019s something going around\u2019, you can say \u201d\u02dcYES, YES THERE IS! NOW STOP BREATHING ON ME!\u2019<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h4>The downside<\/h4>\n<p>You\u2019ll spend most of your money on hand sanitizer and face masks. That\u2019s if you ever actually leave the house again, of course.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/gb\/app\/sickweather\/id741036885?mt=8\">Download Sickweather on iOS<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=com.sickweather.sickweather&amp;hl=en\">Download Sickweather on Android<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Has an app made your life surprisingly easy recently? Let us know, and we may feature it in a future post!<\/p>\n<p>And if you need a bit of Christmas cash, or just have a few gadgets you don\u2019t use anymore, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/sell-tech\/\">sell your electronics with musicMagpie<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/start-selling\/\">Click here to see how much money you could make<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s Thursday, which means it\u2019s time for another surprisingly easy app of the week! This week, we\u2019re going to help you avoid getting ill before Christmas with Sickweather&#8230; What is it? Sickweather is \u201d\u02dcthe world\u2019s first Doppler radar for sickness\u2019, which basically means that it tells you where sick people &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":2654,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[199,4],"tags":[1558],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2650"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2650"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13113,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2650\/revisions\/13113"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}