End of Exposure Notifications, as well?

[edschweppe]

Surprise! My iPhone just notified me that it had turned off Exposure Notifications. Apparently, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts just shut down their notification system:

MassNotify, the official COVID-19 exposure notification system for Massachusetts, was discontinued with the end of the federal COVID-19 public health emergency on May 11, 2023.

Of course, the death, case and hospitalization counts all went up this week. But the emergency is officially over, and that's all that counts. Right?

Feh.

Comments

[lauradi7dw]

I thought of you when I got the same message. (We don't know each other, but I look for your Thursday updates).

[jeffy]

Yeah, same here in WA. I never got an exposure notification. Of course I have been distancing myself as much as possible since this all began. But I also suspect the fact that testing was never widespread, and reporting of test results even less so made the system basically useless. This culture we have here is confounding in so many ways.