Is there anything written about this?
I'm extremely skeptical that a big chunk of people in such a highly online country just left their phones at home. Maybe some of the Hardeim but I would guess 95+% of people wouldn't do this.
I'm extremely skeptical that a big chunk of people in such a highly online country just left their phones at home. Maybe some of the Hardeim but I would guess 95+% of people wouldn't do this.
Would you really bring your phone with you, when going out for a beer or coffee, even if it could easily result in you being forced to stay quarantined for 2 weeks?
Is your smartphone really that important to you?
Even though I have personally stayed socially distanced and worn a mask everywhere it was required, it makes perfect sense to me, after seeing how a lot of people have reacted to the pandemic, that a good portion of the population, would let their phone stay at home, so they would not risk a police enforced quarantine.
In israel, this was done centrally by cell tower triangulation rather than app/os, so no way to opt out even with dumb phones. However, reliability was not very good - e.g. people got notice that they must quarantine because a neighbour 2 floors up was positive, or because they stood outside a wall of a closed room where a positive person was on the other side of said wall. The appeal process was initially non-existent, then slow and cumbersome - so the risk of being "jailed" for 14 days due to false positive was small but serious.