Fuck corporate tracking. The fact that Slashdotters pushed the idea once they felt they were threatened by a scary virus was very eye opening. It just shows that most Slashdotters will give up any sort of beliefs in exchange for some "protection". And yeah, YOU HAVE NO IDEA WHAT THESE APPS ARE DOING. They are not open source, and you have no way of inspecting the system behind it. So fuck off with your "Oh, Apple and Google are just tracking MAC addresses and not transmitting until...". That is BS. You have no idea what they are doing unless you can inspect the source code and the entire stack behind the source code.

Antifa is going to get Trump re-elected. They don't know how ridiculous they sound (and look). Nice job morons.

The Democrats will literally do anything to keep their power. I give up. Let them have it. It isn't worth it.

" but to feelings will lead to more deaths,"

So what? So does allowing people to smoke. Or drive cars. Or catch other viruses.

Oh I forgot: the data is "bad". My mistake.

The NYT is such a rag. " Then another, in an endless display of death."

What are they talking about? India has less deaths per capita than most EU countries. India 0.21 deaths per million. UK is 2.95 per million.

Are you having a stroke?

It isn't the Federal governments job to "open up" the states. I get it. TRUMP IS BAD. WE GET IT ALREADY. Move on.

Your comment history is open. if anyone cares they can go through it and see your constant anti-US whining. And yeah, "every medical expert" disagrees that the true infection rate is unknown. Right.

I already established that INFECTION RATES ARE MEANINGLESS because of lack of widespread testing.

Yeah, I am not surprised. Seriously you gweihr, hey! and rsilvergun and need to share a basement and just fucking complain to each other about how bad the world is from your comfortable lives in the West. You guys lack perspective on everything.

Yeah you "point" things out very eagerly when you think it will cause destruction and even when it is CLEARLY getting better you point out some irrelevant bullshit about "unreliable data" or "lagging indicators" or whatever else you can think up. And yeah, EXPONENETIALL!1!1!. You guys have been saying that from the beginning even though viruses don't increase EXPONENTIALLY!1!!!1!! forever. Go re-examine your life. You will be much happier in the end. Seriously why are you even here? You obviously dislike America and the American people. So stay in Europe. It is much better over there. Problem solved.

Dude you have been on here for YEARS with your anti-US bullshit. Everything from blaming the US for fucking food poisoning and whatever else. I'm not going through your commenting history. It is open for all to see. GO RE-EXAMINE YOUR LIFE.

" and by "close" I mean the evidence suggests it's probably downplaying the number of COVID-19 deaths by 100% "

It is statements like that that reveal you to be a SLASHDOT SHITHEAD. It has no basis in reality. I think you guys are understanding my point now. You make unfounded statements because you SALIVATE at the prospect of destruction. RE-EXAMINE YOUR LIFE AND MOTIVES.

Every shithead Slashdotter has an unfounded "explanation" for everything.