I turned on the iOS bluetooth exposure notification thing when it came out (May 2020?) Since then, I've never gotten a single notification. I'm at DNA Lounge nearly every night we're open, which means that I'm in close proximity to thousands of strangers per week. And though DNA Lounge has the strictest vaccination policy in the country, having gotten zero notifications still seems... unexpected. Possibilities include:- I have not been in bluetooth range of one of the infected.
- Not nearly enough people have opted in to this system.
- Not nearly enough of those who have become infected have volunteered that information to the system.
My phone says I had 82 exposure checks in the last 14 days, which seems to be all that it saves. I guess that sounds low?
Exposure notifications are a deeply flawed system (proximity is a poor substitute for contact tracing) but false positives should be expected to be the most common failure mode.