[News] NHS CV19 tracing app.

[Deleted member 2719]

I'm a person who believes there should be fewer restrictions as I believe the pandemic is now less dangerous than initially feared and we must live with it.

The above is a pretty unpopular opinion and I'm aware of that.

However there is absolutely no argument for not downloading this app if able. It is simply a novel attempt to control the virus that is absolutely no inconvenience to anyone using it. Why would anyone choose NOT to download it if it could help reduce infections? Very selfish in my view, regardless of beliefs and opinions about the virus.

I've downloaded it and it is very user friendly. Will be interesting to see if I get any alerts. Hope it helps.

I also believe it could be less dangerous, but I will wait to see all the data from the scientist to confirm this first before I tonguing the life out of a granny on Bognor seafront.

 

[Gazwag]

Not a chance in hell I'll be downloading it. The government has quite enough control over our lives already thank you.

I guess you are happy that Bozza knows all about you by being a member of NSC

 

[Gazwag]

So I assume when and if football restarts with a few spectators you are going to have to scan the venue QR along with your ticket? That might be interesting when it comes to some of the "not going to get it but definitely going to defy lockdown" crowd. Like I said on the main thread it would appear your main option when it comes to defying the rules is to wander round aimlessly and maskless with a placard.

Your ticket is your QR code so when you enter the ground they know you are there

 

[PILTDOWN MAN]

Been using it for a while as I go to the Isle of Wight for business

 

[goldstone]

Come on then. Tell me. What control have the government got over you?

Some examples:
Can't meet in groups of more than six
Have to wear face masks in all sorts of places
Can't go on holiday to numerous countries without 14 day quarantine when you return
Can't stand up in the pub to drink a pint

That's quite enough to make me spitting mad.

Maybe you haven't been paying attention!!!

 

[Shropshire Seagull]

Your text will come from Serco not the NHS

OMG - I've twice contracted for Serco in the last 6 years and they are head and shoulders by far the worst for not knowing their ar$e from their elbow when it comes to IT projects - were loose

 

[Chicken Run]

Some examples:
Can't meet in groups of more than six
Have to wear face masks in all sorts of places
Can't go on holiday to numerous countries without 14 day quarantine when you return
Can't stand up in the pub to drink a pint

That's quite enough to make me spitting mad.

Maybe you haven't been paying attention!!!

Gosh, if all this pisses you off and no doubt inconveniences you It’s a good job you weren’t alive between 1939-1945..... One can only imagine the inconvenience of what was going on then would have caused you.

Turn your lights off [MENTION=144]goldstone[/MENTION] the Luftwaffe are on there way, **** you replys [MENTION=144]goldstone[/MENTION], you can’t tell me what to do even if it does mean me and the rest of the street gets levelled.


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[Guinness Boy]

Some examples:
Can't meet in groups of more than six
Have to wear face masks in all sorts of places
Can't go on holiday to numerous countries without 14 day quarantine when you return
Can't stand up in the pub to drink a pint

That's quite enough to make me spitting mad.

Maybe you haven't been paying attention!!!

A dreadful turn of phrase, given the current situation, in an appalling post. Out and out trolling.

 

[Neville's Breakfast]

The problem with that binary analysis is that so many people won't use it precisely because they don't trust a Government run by an unelected megalomaniac not to use their location and health status for other purposes.

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Bit sad that political prejudices and conspiracy theories override concerns for public health. I suppose that’s the kind of country we live in.

 

[PeterOut]

I will overlook your snide final sentence and expand on my personal situation. I have the German one installed, have done for a long time now. But, I have huge reservations about the privacy and integrity of my data in the hands of this Cummins led Government, I don’t trust him, or them, one inch. For that reason I’m out. I am only in the UK for short periods, a few days, and know all of my movements as my days are planned....so I’ll do the sensible thing and notify the contact tracing people should I discover I’m positive when I get my post U.K. test done.

I think this will probably be as good, most likely better, than the app.

With respect, I think you are misunderstanding the point.

Telling a track and trace person that you were in Churchill Square (or wherever) between this and that time is not very helpful. The T&T people will have no idea of who else was in the same place as you at the same time, and will have no means of contacting them.

The idea of the app, as has been said in many ways above, is to flag up when 2 or more people have been in proximity for a given amount of time, and one or more of them later gets a positive Covid result.

 

[Saunders]

Yes it is, they gave up on their bespoke "world beating" version and gone for the same one everyone else is using.

They thought they could make a better app than Apple and Google combined..seriously

They could have created an opensource project and people would have written it for free and it would have worked. Probably would have had too many people wanting to help but that is another matter.

 

[vegster]

Is it safe to download?

 

[ManOfSussex]

As I posted on the other thread for this:

I thought it was just me to begin with, but 5 other people I know are also unable to download it today due to our phones being too old or not having the correct software or some such thing. I think I got my current Samsung in 2016, but I can't be sure.

 

[jessiejames]

We are trying to be Covid secure in our business. We have gone full on face masks for anyone not seated at a table, we’ve already had 2 customers that have said they are exempt from wearing masks, youngsters not the usual complainers, but, they had left their exemption credentials at home, ( honest)

I turned them both away , they weren’t happy, but, what am I meant to do?

By law they don't have to show you exemption certificates. I do not have to wear a mask under medical grounds, but I wear one when I go into shops, because I get fed up with all the dirty looks and comments saying that you can get anything off the internet these days. Was even stopped by an enforcement officer ( the ones who give out fines for littering) showed him not only my exemption certificate also the phone app, still did not believe me, he started to write out a fine, luckily before finishing I started to walk away that's when he grabbed me, that gave me grounds to use force on him, cut a long story short, police turned up, asked me if I wanted to take it further, I said no just leave it. E had a good talking to and was made to apologise to me.

 

[Chicken Run]

By law they don't have to show you exemption certificates..

Then the law needs changing.


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[jessiejames]

Then the law needs changing.


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Why does it?

 

[Leekbrookgull]

We are going off topic,back to the App. Please.

 

[beorhthelm]

By law they don't have to show you exemption certificates.

really? whats the point then. have the fine, take it home and rip up or get written off if exempt.

 

[jessiejames]

really? whats the point then. have the fine, take it home and rip up or get written off if exempt.

Data protection.

 

[LamieRobertson]

Why does it?

Ignore him