Covid 19

[mayday]

I call it the DamPanic

[gcode]

Cali is getting really obnoxious and pushy.
2 mornings in a row, on my phone, my wife's phone and my android tablet
there has been a notification that a CV-19 app was available for install.

It is to keep you informed of CV-19 cases in your area, let you know if you've been exposed
and tell you what to do if the app thinks you have been exposed.

In all 6 cases our devices opened to the app's install page at Google Play Store as soon as we started using the phone.
I wonder how long it will be before the app installs without asking permission???

There is not much distance between the app giving you advice if you've been exposed
and storm troopers hauling you off to mandatory quarantine.  

One year ago, that would have seemed a ridiculous statement, but given the conduct of some
state governments recently is it no longer as far fetched as it sounds.

[marshal]

Cali is getting really obnoxious and pushy.
2 mornings in a row, on my phone, my wife's phone and my android tablet
there has been a notification that a CV-19 app was available for install.

It is to keep you informed of CV-19 cases in your area, let you know if you've been exposed
and tell you what to do if the app thinks you have been exposed.

In all 6 cases our devices opened to the app's install page at Google Play Store as soon as we started using the phone.
I wonder how long it will be before the app installs without asking permission???

There is not much distance between the app giving you advice if you've been exposed
and storm troopers hauling you off to mandatory quarantine.  

One year ago, that would have seemed a ridiculous statement, but given the conduct of some
state governments recently is it no longer as far fetched as it sounds.

Minnesota has been similar, I've gotten a couple notifications saying it's available.  Of course, it only actually works if the people who test positive tell the app they've tested positive.

[rdshear]

Cali is getting really obnoxious and pushy.
2 mornings in a row, on my phone, my wife's phone and my android tablet
there has been a notification that a CV-19 app was available for install.

It is to keep you informed of CV-19 cases in your area, let you know if you've been exposed
and tell you what to do if the app thinks you have been exposed.

In all 6 cases our devices opened to the app's install page at Google Play Store as soon as we started using the phone.
I wonder how long it will be before the app installs without asking permission???

There is not much distance between the app giving you advice if you've been exposed
and storm troopers hauling you off to mandatory quarantine.  

One year ago, that would have seemed a ridiculous statement, but given the conduct of some
state governments recently is it no longer as far fetched as it sounds.

Do those come through if you turn off Government Alerts?  Not sure on android, but on an iPhone, goto Settings/Notifications and scroll down to the bottom.  There are 3 sliders for Government Alerts that cover AMBER Alerts, Emergency Alerts, and Public Safety Alerts.  I shut them all off and when all the phones around me are warning of this or that, mine is silent.

[Jeff]

Covid19 is turning out to be more panic than pandemic

Gee, ya don't say?

I remember saying this very thing at the beginning, and having idiots call me every name in the book for it.

[gcode]

Minnesota has been similar, I've gotten a couple notifications saying it's available.  Of course, it only actually works if the people who test positive tell the app they've tested positive.

Here in Cali, if a business has more that 5% of the workforce test positive they are declared a hot spot.
Once you become a hot spot, they are subject to twice weekly testing , which continues until you go 14 days with no positive tests
This is hellish expensive. In our case (($100/test x 140 people) x 2/week) = $28k/week not to mention the loss of productivity
as workers stand around waiting for tests while million dollar machine tools sit idle.
Our insurance picks up some of it, but I'm sure they will get is back by increasing our premiums later.
and
if you test positive, the testing company is required to notify the state so you are in the app's data base
whether you want to be or not.

I suspect testing costs alone are going to bury a whole lot of small businesses before this is done.
I have read about a couple of small businesses closing the doors due to testing costs.

One of the worst things about CV-19 is our Constitutional rights are being crushed in the name of public health with almost zero objections

[Jeff]

I suspect testing costs alone are going to bury a whole lot of small businesses before this is done.

It's exactly what they want. Deplete USA manufacturing at all cost so we are forced to send more shit to China and buy more shit from China.

[neurosis]

Cali is getting really obnoxious and pushy.
2 mornings in a row, on my phone, my wife's phone and my android tablet
there has been a notification that a CV-19 app was available for install.

I've gotten two this morning too. The last one stuck on my phone as an alert.  

This is about the 3rd time they've sent these alerts to me.

[Grumpy713]

Find your place in the vaccine line

wow, cancer moved me from behind 268.7 million to behind 23 million

[gcode]

yes ... my wife and I are the same age and have the same risks
except she has asthma which has been under control for years

but adding asthma to the questionnaire moved her from 118 million behind to 28 million behind

[John316]

Based on your risk profile, we believe you're in line behind 126.5 million people across the United States.

[John316]

Cali is getting really obnoxious and pushy.
2 mornings in a row, on my phone, my wife's phone and my android tablet
there has been a notification that a CV-19 app was available for install.

It is to keep you informed of CV-19 cases in your area, let you know if you've been exposed
and tell you what to do if the app thinks you have been exposed.

In all 6 cases our devices opened to the app's install page at Google Play Store as soon as we started using the phone.
I wonder how long it will be before the app installs without asking permission???

There is not much distance between the app giving you advice if you've been exposed
and storm troopers hauling you off to mandatory quarantine.  

One year ago, that would have seemed a ridiculous statement, but given the conduct of some
state governments recently is it no longer as far fetched as it sounds.

I get those several times a day and delete them.
I did read up on the process and they track your movements through your phone's gps basically creating a travel network. If somebody on the network gets infected the system backtracks to everybody in the network that they came within 6 feet of. I won't freely give them access to my every move but they can already track our movements through our phones without our consent.

[Matthew Hajicek]

I keep the GPS turned off when I'm not actively using it.  I'm sure they can still track me through cell-site info and sneak the GPS on when they want, but it makes me feel a little bit better.

[TylerBeer]

What the fuck is so hard about getting takeout

[YoDoug]

What the fuck is so hard about getting takeout

I live in a pretty rural area. Most of the decent eating is 30 minutes from our house. This poses 2 problems for takeout. The first is we often eat out while we are running other errands in those areas. We will go eat dinner first, then do our shopping. The second is a lot of different foods lose their quality during a 30 minute drive home. Anything that is crispy with a sauce is soft and mushy by the time you get home.