15-20% of Americans don't own a smart phone. An additional X% don't religiously carry their phone around with them constantly, or at all.
The plan required nearly every single smartphone owner in the country to voluntarily use the tracing app, and keep their phone on them at all times in any public setting. Short of that, the results weren't actionable. If the results aren't actionable, people won't opt-in, and the results will be even less actionable.
...and oh yeah it fails in vehicle traffic, or any scenario where people are on the other side of a piece of glass or wall. Hello false flags.
These flaws were obvious before any company wrote a single line of code. It was silicon valley hubris, and a textbook example of a hammer seeing everything as a nail. It predictably failed, and did nothing but distract from actual efforts.
But the worst part is that now all of our smartphones have this insidious BT tracing technology built into the operating system. I am sure Google and FB would LOVE to know all the people we're near, in real time. This technology, brought about under the absurd false pretense of trying to help covid, is here to stay, baked right into the operating system.
The plan required nearly every single smartphone owner in the country to voluntarily use the tracing app, and keep their phone on them at all times in any public setting. Short of that, the results weren't actionable. If the results aren't actionable, people won't opt-in, and the results will be even less actionable.
...and oh yeah it fails in vehicle traffic, or any scenario where people are on the other side of a piece of glass or wall. Hello false flags.
These flaws were obvious before any company wrote a single line of code. It was silicon valley hubris, and a textbook example of a hammer seeing everything as a nail. It predictably failed, and did nothing but distract from actual efforts.
But the worst part is that now all of our smartphones have this insidious BT tracing technology built into the operating system. I am sure Google and FB would LOVE to know all the people we're near, in real time. This technology, brought about under the absurd false pretense of trying to help covid, is here to stay, baked right into the operating system.