Since COVID-19 can be transmitted through close proximity to affected
individuals, public health officials have identified contact tracing as a
valuable tool to help contain its spread. A number of leading public health
authorities, universities, and NGOs around the world have been doing important
work to develop opt-in contact tracing technology. To further this cause,

Apple and Google will be launching a comprehensive solution that includes
application programming interfaces (APIs) and operating system-level
technology to assist in enabling contact tracing. Given the urgent need, the
plan is to implement this solution in two steps while maintaining strong
protections around user privacy.

First, in May, both companies will release APIs that enable interoperability
between Android and iOS devices using apps from public health authorities.
These official apps will be available for users to download via their
respective app stores.

Second, in the coming months, Apple and Google will work to enable a broader
Bluetooth-based contact tracing platform by building this functionality into
the underlying platforms. This is a more robust solution than an API and would
allow more individuals to participate, if they choose to opt in, as well as
enable interaction with a broader ecosystem of apps and government health
authorities. Privacy, transparency, and consent are of utmost importance in
this effort, and we look forward to building this functionality in
consultation with interested stakeholders. We will openly publish information
about our work for others to analyze.

All of us at Apple and Google believe there has never been a more important
moment to work together to solve one of the worlds most pressing problems.
Through close cooperation and collaboration with developers, governments and
public health providers, we hope to harness the power of technology to help
countries around the world slow the spread of COVID-19 and accelerate the
return of everyday life.

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2020/04/apple-and-google-partner-on-covid-1
9-co
ntact-tracing-technology/

Is this "work together" to solve a world problem?  With governments?
"...to slow the spread of COVID-19" and "return of everyday life"

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How is the stock market doing this morning? What will a rollback of 
Trump tax breaks do for average Americans? What are the economic and 
supply chain repercussions of extended lockdowns? Is there a 
possibility that average Americans are getting fatigue from Corvid 
lockdowns? How will Americans react to the idea that they must wear 
a mask now to avoid the Flu, knowing that the Flu never goes away?

How do vaccines work when viruses/disease are constantly mutating?
Does a global lockdown cause more hunger, poverty and disease; the 
cure worse than the illness? What is happening to small businesses 
in your area? Why are they never mentioned? Why does the news focus 
almost exclusively on Covid and why does no one mention the many 
contradictions they speak? Did anyone find the link between Covid 
and the new and sudden urgency for green compliance and race issues? 
Will America explode into violence regardless of who wins the 
presidential race? Do you believe polls are rigged? How much misery 
can average Americans take? Do you expect to be employed in a year? 
Do you think years of 0% interest for banks and endless quantitative 
easing will cause massive inflation for America? Do you think 
services like health care, food, housing, etc can ever be free as 
promised by liberals? Does everyone pay a price for that? How far 
away are we from food access insecurity? How will relative price of 
goods and services be affected by a year of economic lockdowns and 
fear mongering? How accurate are Covid "fast tests"? Do you think 
putting diseased people in nursing homes knowing that fatalities 
will rise dramatically is murder? If everything is free, who does 
the work? If there's a ratio of risk and reward that fuels economic 
investment opportunities, who will invest in America's future if 
Wall Street investors are punished with excessive taxes? Do average 
people have 401ks and how will punishing Wall Street help or hurt 
these people? I can do this all day. 

? Do you think
 services like health care, food, housing, etc can ever be free as
 promised by liberals? Does everyone pay a price for that? 

We'll find out...seems like we're going to get a big dose of an
old man on a teleprompter pretending to lend a helping hand.
The markets?  It's the pebbles and rubble before the avalanche.

Biden:
COVID action plan  Climate change  Immigration

Which one is your favorite?

By the time people wake up to the tyranny, they will be knee deep in it.
"NO FREE STUFF? WTF????"

Michigan charges a 16% tax on CBD and pot. 
Sin taxes and lockdowns. Get your Nintendo Switch, a bag of cheetos and 
some State weed and call it "work from home". People who are out and 
about here can't manage to find other clothes than pajamas. PERFECT 
government stooges. The State should start issuing pajamas too. Why not.
" WHERE'S MY GD STIMULUS CHECK???" "I WANT GUARANTEED INCOME. BRING ME
MC  DONALDS!" There will soon be no one to make the Big Macs if everyone
is  sitting at home with poopy-smelling pajamas. This is the civil war
we  were promised.

I noticed the media has reprised the "WE ARE WITH YOU" creepy messages 
from March. They really want to sell the new COVID numbers for more 
lockdown. I still honestly don't know what power is derived from locking
 us all down. I get the fact that they leveraged COVID to steal an 
election. But keeping it going beyond that is a mystery to me. To me, 
media numbers for COVID are as trustworthy as political polls and 
climate change hysteria, "America will be under water by 2013!" "The 
world will END in less than 10 years!"

Get ready for your burkha...er mask!
Traveling? Where are your papers?

I'm STILL waiting on the passport renewal.  I'm not going to hold my breath
on this.  Now is a good time to buy BP and Exxon stock
*sinister laughter*

Wait until mid January. The BP/Exxon & various oil ETFs will likely be 
bargains. You can never really lose with oil. When it's high or low, 
you usually get prime dividends (depending on the stock). Buy low, get 
6% dividends for BP & Exxon. The market can't beat it. 
If you buy to hold, it's a no brainer.

Liberals can hype green but the world runs on fossil fuels.
Money talks...BS walks. Oil is always talking.

PS Big Tech is taking a beating in the markets in the last few days. 
Lockdowns are good for big tech. Could be bargain hunting territory if 
you are bullish.
One thing I've learned - people will let their kids starve to get a new 
iPhone. It's sick AF but that's the world we live in.

Hi Michael

The new exciting Apple Air Tag is its own contact tracing device.
In proximity to an Apple Air Tag while using an iPhone? 
The Air Tag's location is known. Now, so are you. There's a whole 
stalking/privacy issue here. 

Because it works on a mesh network, even if you don't own an Apple Air 
Tag, if you own an iPhone, it's a slave to the network. 

Anyone's iPhone can see Air Tags. Each tag has an associated phone 
number which is visible. Oops, now anyone with an iPhone has your 
number. 

Claims of encryption & privacy are laughable. 

If you are a crook and you scan for Apple Air Tags, you know you have 
the location of something desirable. 
Imagine Air Tags in an airport or other crowded public space. 

Lesson from reading the posts from November 2020: Oil is *still* 
gaining traction. In January, the media was ecstatic about a "Biden 
Boom." 
When does that happen? 
The boom was priced into the market long ago. Trillions spent to keep 
people from working. Poopy sweatpants, netflix and door-dash nation.
Do you notice that no one complains about "hipsters" anymore? 
It's almost like everyone has beard scruff and dirty sweatpants. Don't 
they know you can get justice for floyd by looting for better stuff? 

All we have to show for it is a lousy tee-shirt and hyper-inflation. 
Daily ransomware attacks on critical infrastructure - oil pipelines, 
meat processors and this morning, the internet. 

Hey Siri, what's a 503 error?

https://www.wsj.com/articles/news-government-websites-go-down-amid-
widespread-outages-11623149507

Funny thing is that Klaus Schwab and company (WEF) "predicted" that 
there would be "covid-like" digital disruptions. They called it "cyber 
polygon".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUhHDUVBYhQ

It seems as if...gee...they might be behind it. I mean, gosh after all 
they *predicted* the covid 19 outbreak 2 months before it happened too.
And now we have proof (FOIA emails) that Fauci funded it with American 
tax dollars.

"Hey Google, which operating systems are targeted by ransomware?"

Why would any part of our infrastructure be directly connected to the 
internet? We pay government and utility workers well enough to get off 
their asses and pull the levers and turn the dials manually. 

Ransomware is a pretty nifty cover for nation-states. 
Ask for money and blame mystery hackers. Plausible deniability.
When they decide to *not* give control back and start sabotaging 
systems, you will know the gloves are off. 

It's "Dress-Up Day" on the Polka-Dot-Door. You can drag an anchor 
across under-sea cables while dressed like a Russian sea captain.

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