Google testing website total bullshit

So what appears to have happened; Jarod was all in a huff and talked to some Silicon Valley tech folks and  subsequently told his father-in-law about a relevant pilot project linked to Alphabet (Google's parent company), and our Prez added his own exaggerated facts in a surprise announcement. 

Lemme tell ya, it doesn't take 1700 engineers to build a simple website with a decision tree and a "nearby" health center locator widget. Are you real sick - do this. Are you sorta sick, go here.

And lemme tell ya something else -- the government already has an agency equipped to handle large volumes of health related information in a secure manner (in Spanish and English) without collecting potential for-profit marketing data -- it's called the Social Security Administration. They already have online services for disability and retirement that can handle tons of users around the clock. They have design teams, the software, the infrastructure and the hardware to roll this out quickly. 

(Granted it usually takes years to get most government websites up and running, but that's not because of the lack of capable people.)

But I guess we need to privatize everything to keep the big donors happy. 

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"By Monday morning, however, the project by Verily – a sister company to Google under the corporate umbrella of Alphabet – had reached capacity, and users were informed that no more testing appointments were available.

The site’s modest utility and scope stands in stark contrast to what had been promised on Friday, when the president announced in a news conference that Google had 1,700 engineers working on a website that would “be very quickly done, unlike websites of the past, to determine whether a test is warranted and to facilitate testing at a nearby convenient location”.

Trump’s concept was news to the nation – and to Google, which had no such website in the works. Verily, which grew out of Google’s research and development organization Google X but is now a separate company, was indeed working on a triage website, but it was only in the early stages, and only intended for a couple California counties.

Verily staff worked through the weekend, but the launch has not been without issues. In addition to being limited to two counties in the San Francisco Bay area, the tool is only available in English and to people above 18 years old."