CombatCOVID MDC

I get the privacy concerns, but let’s be real. If I am in my car and in Bluetooth range of another driver and we exchange tokens, there is no path for transmission. Yet I could get an alert. Location services needs to be incorporated, so if I see the alert was from an exchange on the palmetto expressway I can ignore it. Second, this needs to work in the background. Maybe there is a technical reason it can’t, but the easier it is to just run it without thinking the better. If it gets disabled and I forget to turn it on, might as well not have it! Same if I’m somewhere using other apps. Might as well not have it. But this is a much needed tool that everyone can use for their safety. Worried about “them” tracking you? Better cancel sunpass! Delete your Facebook! Flush your smart phone down the toilet! And get over yourself, you are NOT important enough to be tracked! Nobody cares about your boring activities! Or mine.

I usually read reviews but don’t mist post them myself but I had to with this one. The negative people and comments seem to me to be from people who have an agenda or are what my brother calls technology perfectionists, he is a computer guy. That isn’t the real world. I wish my phone didn’t have to be recharged so often – but it doesn’t keep me from using it. This app requires you to go through some steps and rules to use it BUT IT IS DEFINITELY worth it in my opinion. I am no digital genius (I’ve been in a successful auto repair business for18 years) but I know when something works. This app by our county works. One more thing, I hate it when people make reviews and then speak bad about Miami-Dade. I have lived here my whole life and love it.

My husband has had the app on his phone for several days using it before I downloaded it. I have the same impression and opinions he has: its easy to use and is very easily installed. I’ve read the back and forth about this app. I don’t think the negative reviewers understand the options Miami Dade County had. FL Is not VA. The State of Florida is simply not providing the same support. What do the negative reviewers want? Do nothing? I totally get that the app can be forced off during a call or something. SOWHAT! Turn it back on! MDC is in the middle of a pandemic and struggling to do the best it can. This app works well, and is easy to use given what MDC had to work with. Far, far too many people are failing to realize the gravity of our situation and the need to do whatever we can – no matter how imperfect – to keep from getting sick. I’m 52 and a of this talk childish and selfish.