I doubt it, they will have to do a good selling job to convince me
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I probably wouldn’t install the UK one, or the Google etc versions - but I have a lot more trust in the French government - so I wonder what folks’ reasons are for not using it?
Unlikely to install it when it arrives here as we live in a rural area where many people don’t have smartphones so seems little point. And there are not that many people anyway!
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I will download it. I live in a rural area and there seems to be no shortage of smartphone owners around here.
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Ha ha… I’m not smart enough to have a smart phone… just a bog-standard one which receives call and messages… and enables me to send 'em… 
Personally, I don’t need anything more complicated than that
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In another thread I wrote (to cross reference):
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Nope. I consider it a total waste of time and effort. It will only work if its use becomes compulsory.
I’ll try installing it but Bluetooth being permanently switched on will exhaust the battery in less than 24 hours.
I guess the trick will be only to switch BT on when you are out in places where you will encounter other people in close proximity.
Unless your “smartphone” has LE Bluetooth hardware and compatible software an hour or so will run down the battery.
If you leave Bluetooth switched on you need to manage the settings so others can’t access your phone.
Seemingly simple but much more complicated in reality.
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I installed it. I have bluetooth enabled normally anyway - I only take my phone if going out by car, and it connects with the car by bluetooth - it uses more power, but lasts a day or two anyway.
My problem will be remembering to take the phone with me - I’m absolutely notorious among family and friends for not having it with me - but I will try…
A propos Bluetooth, isn’t it super cool that their logo is the 2 runes of Harald Bluetooth’s initials?
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I didn’t know that - but yes it is!
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I have Bluetooth on constantly on my phone, it has very little effect on the battery life, far far less than than having the screen active.
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I’ve downloaded it. I can understand people’s privacy concerns, but I have various health concerns which mean catching Covid-19 would be very serious for me. So on that basis I think it’s the lesser of two evils.
I have health issues that put me in the extremely vulnerable category, but my approach is to make sure I don’t put myself in a position to be too close to people. So I haven’t been closer than 1 metre to anyone and therefore, as I understand it, the app wouldn’t register my existence anyway. So not sure it is worth bothering with it as wouldn’t stop me actually catching covid, which is what I must avoid.
Perhaps if I go to Paris or Lyon where harder to keep one’s distance it might be worth it, but otherwise I probably won’t.
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Worth bothering with? Thirty seconds or so to initiate the download of the App then it works away in the background. It really isn’t any bother. It’s very easy to switch the App on or off, one touch of the screen. I will be initiating it whenever I go shopping or to places where there might be a gathering of people. For the rest of the time it will be switched off. I don’t plan on getting up close to anyway but I can’t see the downside of having one more level of protection.
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You’re too hard on yourself Stella. 
But if it only registers contacts at 1m distance or less and 15 minutes and over, then what will it be registering?