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@engler@chaos.social @lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me @kaia@brotka.st @meso@asbestos.cafe Another thought I want to add.

While you know while the development and operation costs of most contact tracing apps are definitely out of proportion I would not immediately conclude that this means that the apps were a complete failure.

While hard to quantify in exact numbers these contact tracing apps have during their lifetime probably prevented hundreds of thousands of cases of COVID.

And there's one thing that is definitely more expensive than incompetent government software development, which is healthcare.

Maybe the 200 million euro spent on the contact tracing app has saved 300 million euro in healthcare expenses?