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Anecdotally, everybody I know has deleted the app from their phone so they can’t get pinged and live their life reasonably normally.

Anecdotally, I never installed it for the same reason.

I wonder how much is post-Snowden distrust of government software and how much is simply not wanting to be pinged?

Definitely both.

I would install it if it meant free paid holiday from work but I'm not employed and if I were I could probably work from home.