No Contact Non Tracing

Woke up on Friday to a notification that California had quietly shut down their participation in the Apple-Google smartphone-based contact tracing system.

Had to imagine a better microcosm of the fractal nature of the Disaster of the Twenties: faced with a massive epistemological, social, and political catastrophe, Silicon Valley declares that they have a technological solution!  Which is then rendered inert by a different subset of  epistemological, social, and political issues.

Other than consuming battery in the background, I never got any exposure warnings from that system.  Did anyone?  Based on tne near-total lack of coverage of the shutdown over the weekend, I’m guessing the oly value this thing provided was some self-congratulatory press releases a few years ago.  What a waste.