This is code for taking your freedom.
It is code for making your pursuit of happiness secondary to big government whims.
It is code for the biggest slippery slope power grab in a generation.
The current Democrat power grab is either going to cost them dearly in November or freedom loving Americans will no longer be free.
You can take your contact tracing and shove it.
Who is mandating contact tracing?
"On Tuesday, Gov. Jay Inslee announced a contact tracing program to track who has the virus, where they've been, and who they've been in contact with. With contact tracing, the state hopes to speed up the isolation and quarantining processes and slow the spread of the virus.
Now, after critics raised privacy concerns, the governor is walking back a requirement that customers must give their contact information to the businesses they visit."
New regulations from the governor say customers can decline to give their information to businesses they visit in Phase 2.
patch.com
Yup, our mayor tried it here and was roundly rebuked
Mayors have next to no power to institute this. Google/Apple (Android/I-Phone) are working with the CDC on it. If she/he wanted to install it tomorrow, they couldn't do it.
Soon it will be part of the contract you sign when you renew your cell phone contract.
Our Mayor here DECREED it from on high as a REQUIREMENT that any customer who is in a business longer than 10 minutes MUST give their personal contact info to the business.
A week or so later he had to walk it back because of the outrage.
That and he probably was talking out of his buttocks since most cell phones don't have the technology yet, the bluetooth ramifications are completely untested, and, oh yeah, there is nobody to follow up on the back end once you collect this data.
A snipet:
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Nobody in their right mind is going to download the APP unless forced to do so for their job. So it's going to be put into the source coding and run in the background. That is what Google/Apple are working on right now. You will comply. Resistance is futile.
The bluetooth is even more problematic. Someone in the next room or business or apartment can theoretically connect to your phone if they had the credentials. A guy with his cell phone in a car driving by outside of the convenience store where you buy your dinner may be infected and be known to the Public Health Authorities but because of the bluetooth connection, it reads as you having interacted with him even though you were inside the store and never saw the dude.
Then once the data is collected, what then? Most state health departments don't have the manpower to contact every cell phone number of the people who were "exposed" to the guy in the car.
Your mayor was speaking out of his buttocks on this one.