> If your testing capability is low, and if people are not being tested, then everything else is a waste of time. Then you add in societal failures like not get

> If your testing capability is low, and if people are not being tested, then everything else is a waste of time. Then you add in societal failures like not getting sick pay, or paid time off if you've got the virus, or incentives to work regardless and you realize 'contact tracing' is just another data gathering excuse. This. I'm sick and tired of people thinking that some clever Bluetooth API is going to somehow magically solve the very real social and political issues that are preventing certain countries from getting the virus under control. [For a start: what about people who, for all sorts of perfectly valid reasons, don't have a (compatible) smartphone with them at all times? There are a lot more of them than you might think.]