Of course the government and the company responsible for the error are scambling to point the finger elsewhere and to also blame it on technical glitches and software mistakes but this is just another piece of the Covid pie that makes people like myself, who already believe that this situation is blown WAY out of proportion, believe in the mass hysteria even less.
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We've all heard the tales out there of someone who knew someone who got told they have Covid-19 but they never even got tested etc. Personally I know a person personally that this happened to because he lives in my neighborhood: Believe it if you want to or assume I am making it up if you want to - it doesn't matter to me. His story was one of being told that he could get tested for free at this particular time at this particular place and he turned up to a packed facility (which is always awesome when we are meant to believe that getting close to other people is what is meant to pass the virus on) to sign up like a good citizen and then told to go wait in his car for his number to show up on a giant television they had on the exterior of the building. He waited there for hours, did a little math and realized he would be there for many more hours waiting for his turn, and then left without telling anyone.
2 weeks later he got a letter in the mail saying that he tested positive when he wasn't even tested at all.
This week in North Carolina, nearly 7000 people were informed by text and another 500 or so by email that they tested positive. Many of the recipients of these texts and emails had never been tested. Some of them had been tested. Obviously this was very worrysome but when the news hit about the thousands of people who were positive without being tested at all, the government and the testing facility responsible , Health Space.
They quickly got the spin machine working and both the Mecklenburg county representatives and Health Space were trying to point the finger at one another at first, and then apparently they had a meeting to blame "the error" on a technical glitch and then offered no details as to what that glitch actually was.
They really screwed up when before they said any of the above, someone in their organization had already Tweeted out that the message was a scam, and that they hadn't sent the texts of emails at all.
Could it really be just an honest mistake and / or an actual glitch? Of course it could be. Anyone who has ever done any sort of programming can attest to that. But it does seem awfully suspicious that they would first claim to have nothing to do with it and then later, once it could easily be revealed that they actually were the guilty party, to blame it on a "glitch."
It is stuff like this that makes people like me not believe anything that we are being told about this virus and turns me more and more into one of those dreaded "crazy conspiracy theorists."