Calypso Jones
12-13-2020, 04:08 PM
Americans Said No to Coronavirus Contact Tracing Spy Apps | Frontpagemag (https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2020/12/americans-said-no-coronavirus-contact-tracing-spy-daniel-greenfield/)
It’s going to not only bring contact tracing to a new level," Cuomo boasted, while claiming that it wouldn't violate anyone's privacy.
Few New Yorkers seemed to believe him. Despite being available in Spanish, Chinese, Bengali, Korean, Russian, Haitian Creole, and, even more unexpectedly, English, the app hasn’t taken off and Cuomo’s regime has refused to reveal the data that would actually show if it’s tracking positive cases. The lack of data transparency has been the second biggest story about Cuomo’s mismanagement of the pandemic, after the deaths of 11,000 nursing home residents when his administration forced nursing homes (https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2020/05/bring-grandma-killing-governors-justice-daniel-greenfield/) to accept infected patients. The numbers are likely higher, but the Cuomo administration, in its typical fashion, is refusing to release the data.
After a month, only 5% (https://apnews.com/article/us-news-smartphones-coronavirus-pandemic-district-of-columbia-20aa29d9d018597e2e464128b529e928) of New Yorkers have downloaded Cuomo’s spy app. That’s far short of the 60% that’s needed for contact tracing to work.
Even Europeans haven’t hit that 60% target. Few outside Communist China have.
Apple and Google claimed that they needed at least 15%. Only a few states in America hit that bar and they tend to have small populations that lean leftward. Most Americans have opted out.
Governor Murphy launched (https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/new-jersey-unveils-new-coronavirus-contact-tracing-app/ar-BB19Cd6D) his state’s contact tracing app to great fanfare, urging a, “shared sense of personal responsibility to support our contact tracing efforts”. Only 4% of New Jersey residents decided to take up the former Goldman Sachs tycoon on his modest proposal.
Murphy, like Cuomo, had forced (https://cms.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2020/05/did-lockdown-model-cause-half-coronavirus-deaths-daniel-greenfield) nursing homes to accept infected coronavirus patients. Some of the state’s deadliest outbreaks had also taken place in state hospitals (https://cms.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2020/05/3-out-5-deadliest-coronavirus-outbreaks-were-state-daniel-greenfield)for veterans.
Pennsylvania's Governor Wolf and Secretary of Health Richard Levine, debuted their contact tracing app in September.
“We won’t know who has downloaded the app, who has received notifications and who used symptom check,” Richard (Rachel) Levine, who had taken his mother out of a nursing home and into a hotel, while forcing nursing homes (https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2020/05/bring-grandma-killing-governors-justice-daniel-greenfield/) to take in infected patients, assured Pennsylvanians.
Only 4% of Pennsylavanians were convinced. Richard Levine has begun (https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/pa-officials-want-kids-teens-to-use-covid-app-for-tracking/ar-BB1buH3r) pleading with 13-year-olds to download the app. If there’s anything that’s bound to reassure state residents, it’s a strange man in a blonde wig urging their children to download an app to monitor them.
Contact tracing app adoption in America isn’t likely to get much better even with more time.
Governor Northam rolled out a contact tracing app in Virginia back in August. After half a year, the state has passed Google's 15% bar with an estimated 19% of smartphone owners having installed the app.
But few people are actually using it.
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Thank God not all American are sheep.
It’s going to not only bring contact tracing to a new level," Cuomo boasted, while claiming that it wouldn't violate anyone's privacy.
Few New Yorkers seemed to believe him. Despite being available in Spanish, Chinese, Bengali, Korean, Russian, Haitian Creole, and, even more unexpectedly, English, the app hasn’t taken off and Cuomo’s regime has refused to reveal the data that would actually show if it’s tracking positive cases. The lack of data transparency has been the second biggest story about Cuomo’s mismanagement of the pandemic, after the deaths of 11,000 nursing home residents when his administration forced nursing homes (https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2020/05/bring-grandma-killing-governors-justice-daniel-greenfield/) to accept infected patients. The numbers are likely higher, but the Cuomo administration, in its typical fashion, is refusing to release the data.
After a month, only 5% (https://apnews.com/article/us-news-smartphones-coronavirus-pandemic-district-of-columbia-20aa29d9d018597e2e464128b529e928) of New Yorkers have downloaded Cuomo’s spy app. That’s far short of the 60% that’s needed for contact tracing to work.
Even Europeans haven’t hit that 60% target. Few outside Communist China have.
Apple and Google claimed that they needed at least 15%. Only a few states in America hit that bar and they tend to have small populations that lean leftward. Most Americans have opted out.
Governor Murphy launched (https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/new-jersey-unveils-new-coronavirus-contact-tracing-app/ar-BB19Cd6D) his state’s contact tracing app to great fanfare, urging a, “shared sense of personal responsibility to support our contact tracing efforts”. Only 4% of New Jersey residents decided to take up the former Goldman Sachs tycoon on his modest proposal.
Murphy, like Cuomo, had forced (https://cms.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2020/05/did-lockdown-model-cause-half-coronavirus-deaths-daniel-greenfield) nursing homes to accept infected coronavirus patients. Some of the state’s deadliest outbreaks had also taken place in state hospitals (https://cms.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2020/05/3-out-5-deadliest-coronavirus-outbreaks-were-state-daniel-greenfield)for veterans.
Pennsylvania's Governor Wolf and Secretary of Health Richard Levine, debuted their contact tracing app in September.
“We won’t know who has downloaded the app, who has received notifications and who used symptom check,” Richard (Rachel) Levine, who had taken his mother out of a nursing home and into a hotel, while forcing nursing homes (https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2020/05/bring-grandma-killing-governors-justice-daniel-greenfield/) to take in infected patients, assured Pennsylvanians.
Only 4% of Pennsylavanians were convinced. Richard Levine has begun (https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/pa-officials-want-kids-teens-to-use-covid-app-for-tracking/ar-BB1buH3r) pleading with 13-year-olds to download the app. If there’s anything that’s bound to reassure state residents, it’s a strange man in a blonde wig urging their children to download an app to monitor them.
Contact tracing app adoption in America isn’t likely to get much better even with more time.
Governor Northam rolled out a contact tracing app in Virginia back in August. After half a year, the state has passed Google's 15% bar with an estimated 19% of smartphone owners having installed the app.
But few people are actually using it.
~~~
Thank God not all American are sheep.