I have a Covid-19 contact warning on my phone now. The basic functionality was installed as an update to the iPhone, which knows what country you are in and who/what the responsible authority is. If I were to leave Finland I would just add my new location to the Exposure Notification monitor. The update was installed maybe a month ago (I wouldn’t trust my memory to hold onto a brick of glue). Today I installed the official Finnish Covid app. It didn’t do anything spectacular. A two week FIFO exposure memory became active; nothing special beyond that.
Reading the tiny text only confirmed my first doubts about the system. The entire scheme is based on two premises: 1) Ideally, everybody has a smartphone, which is a problem for some of the most vulnerable people: the elderly and young children. 2) Like capitalism and communism, in order to succeed you need a completely selfless and honest populace. If your phone could independently detect whether you are infected or not, that would be a quantum leap forwards for the efficacy of the system but, no, the phone owners have to voluntarily tell the system about their diagnosis. Every attempt at setting up a social utopia on Earth has failed. And they have failed because a perfect society will only work if the society’s members are perfect.
I put this self-protection software on my phone but I don’t expect to get a single alert. An illusion of safety for the masses, masses that won’t even wear a mask. They are not even worth the labour or the cost it would take to save them. Just give them a free sample of a new flavour of Kool-Aid.
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