  I propose a smartphone app that will allow people to participate in the
management of their own safety during an epidemic or pandemic such as COVID-19
by enabling them to view, in advance, the risks they would take if they visit
some given venue (a cafe, the gym, the workplace, the park,...) and,
furthermore, track the accumulation of such risks during the course of any
given day or week. This idea can be presented to users of the app as counting
points. One point represents some constant probability, $p_\text{point}$, of
infection. Then the app would work in a similar way to a calorie counting app
(instead of counting calories we count probability increments of being
infected). Government could set a maximum recommended number of daily (or
weekly) points available to each user in accord with its objectives (bringing
the disease under control, allowing essential workers to work, protecting
vulnerable individuals, ...). It is posited that this, along with other
proposed "levers" would allow government to manage a gradual transition to
normalcy. I discuss a circuit framework with wires running between boxes. In
this framework the wires represent possible sources of infection, namely
individuals and the venues themselves (through deposits of pathogens left at
the venue). The boxes represent interactions of these sources (when individuals
visit a venue). This circuit framework allows (i) calculation of points cost
for visiting venues and (ii) probabilistic contact tracing. The points systems
proposed here could complement existing contact tracing apps by adding
functionality to permit users to participate in decision making up front.
