[Technology] Where's my ping?

[atfc village]

The good news is that those maskless FreEdoM fIghTErs absolutely will also not install and run the app, so there's no chance of getting a ping due to your proximity to them.

Our sole ping came during a few days away in London at half-term. From the day in question, we think it was probably one of...

- The hotel breakfast room, where we were for around 45 minutes
- Five Guys at Long Acre, where we were for about 30 minutes
- Some pub on the South Bank where we were for about an hour in the evening, although outside throughout

It could also have been at the British Museum, but I'm assuming not as you tend to move through the museum at differing speeds to others, so don't spend very long close to anyone else.

Pub probably ,5 mates in a beer garden a couple of Saturdays ago didn't go near anyone bar the girl bringing the beer over .One in one out of the toilet ,all 5 pinged on the Monday morning all 5 tested negative yet had to self isolate for 10 days madness .

 

[Happy Exile]

The good news is that those maskless FreEdoM fIghTErs absolutely will also not install and run the app, so there's no chance of getting a ping due to your proximity to them.

I think that's exactly it.

 

[Bozza]

Shirkers charter.

Any actual evidence of that?

Strikes me as a somewhat obvious consequence, one of many in fact, of a government wilfully creating an environment to allow a virus rip through a population at a rapid rate.

If you're going to lazily blame the public for this, you could have a very promising career in politics awaiting you.

 

[East Staffs Gull]

Shirkers charter.

Absolutely. We have friends whose working age children are deliberately trying to get pinged. Isolation isn’t mandatory, but their employers won’t allow them to go into work and they are not in jobs where they could work from home. Most have had one vaccination.

 

[Horses Arse]

Despite of carrying on pretty much as have done over the last year or so, I have yet to be pinged and only know of one person that has. Yet when I listen to the news it seems like half the populations' phones are lighting up like Christmas trees?

I don't especially relish the idea of 10 days self-isolation but it does feel a little like I'm in a parallel universe compared to what I see being reported.

You're welcome to my pong if that's of any interest. It's a good one

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Yeah, sorry boss, won't be in for 10 days, I've only gone and got bleedin' pinged

 

[e77]

Shirkers charter.

I assume you mean by that people doing their best to reduce the spread of the disease?

 

[The Wookiee]

Yet a friend of mine's partner has Covid and he wasn't pinged !

Did she not list him as someone who she had been in close contact with ?

 

[ATFC Seagull]

Got one last night. Not so much a dramatic ping as a quick check of the phone before bed and "oh shit".

Cancelled kids day out at adventure park today, mountain biking this evening and pub for the Lions game tomorrow. Luckily ends midnight Sunday, and off on holiday (Wales) on Monday, so as things stand that's on, so not too bad.

I guess it must have come from Thursday or Friday last week based on timings. So either work (in a school, although I do tend to leave my phone in the office) or evening out with colleagues Friday. If so, no sign of any of them getting it. We sat outside so even if someone at another table was within 2m, I don't think there would have been much risk of transmission. Shame the App doesn't identify indoors and outdoors (to my knowledge).

Things could definitely be worse so don't want to seem to miserable or down about it, but it does seem to me that a huge amount of people have simply deleted the app or never had it, which does seem a bit of a mockery of me isolating (no symptoms and been taking lateral flow test all week as a matter of course anyway - all negative). Especially when the response from mates seems to be "your fault, you're an idiot, you should have deleted the app". And these are not covid-deniers or anti-vaxxers.

 

[studio150]

Even through house walls or work lockers so they say .

Gym lockers also.
My son and his partner got pinged the other week, both working from home and follow guidelines. They reckon it was while their phones were in a locker at the local gym.

 

[Eeyore]

Did she not list him as someone who she had been in close contact with ?

Ah, no, I've got it wrong. No-one has Covid. My friend was pinged to say he had to self isolate because he had been in contact with someone who had tested positive. However, his partner who has been with him all the time (they've been away together) wasn't pinged. They can't work out how that could be.

 

[Springal]

Gym lockers also.
My son and his partner got pinged the other week, both working from home and follow guidelines. They reckon it was while their phones were in a locker at the local gym.

To be fair the app itself recommends you turn off contact tracing when your phone is in a locker or similar. Like wise the same if you are at home or away from your phone for a period of time

 

[Springal]

Ah, no, I've got it wrong. No-one has Covid. My friend was pinged to say he had to self isolate because he had been in contact with someone who had tested positive. However, his partner who has been with him all the time (they've been away together) wasn't pinged. They can't work out how that could be.

Bluetooth proximity is about 5 meters or so. So if they were out somewhere sat down and opposite side of the table, one could be in range the other not

 

[Neville's Breakfast]

Got one last night. Not so much a dramatic ping as a quick check of the phone before bed and "oh shit".

Cancelled kids day out at adventure park today, mountain biking this evening and pub for the Lions game tomorrow. Luckily ends midnight Sunday, and off on holiday (Wales) on Monday, so as things stand that's on, so not too bad.

I guess it must have come from Thursday or Friday last week based on timings. So either work (in a school, although I do tend to leave my phone in the office) or evening out with colleagues Friday. If so, no sign of any of them getting it. We sat outside so even if someone at another table was within 2m, I don't think there would have been much risk of transmission. Shame the App doesn't identify indoors and outdoors (to my knowledge).

Things could definitely be worse so don't want to seem to miserable or down about it, but it does seem to me that a huge amount of people have simply deleted the app or never had it, which does seem a bit of a mockery of me isolating (no symptoms and been taking lateral flow test all week as a matter of course anyway - all negative). Especially when the response from mates seems to be "your fault, you're an idiot, you should have deleted the app". And these are not covid-deniers or anti-vaxxers.

Both my daughters have had to spend time in isolation in the past week. I’m told you can look in the app at settings/other data to find out when the contact occurred.

 

[rippleman]

I think all the posties in Worthing have been pinged. No delivery today and I've not even seen a postie in town.

 

[e77]

I think all the posties in Worthing have been pinged. No delivery today and I've not even seen a postie in town.

I got one today but they have certainly reduced deliveries.

 

[Miximate]

More a Titleist man myself

 

[Hampster Gull]

I got covid a week ago and never got any ping

 

[KZNSeagull]

Any actual evidence of that?

Strikes me as a somewhat obvious consequence, one of many in fact, of a government wilfully creating an environment to allow a virus rip through a population at a rapid rate.

If you're going to lazily blame the public for this, you could have a very promising career in politics awaiting you.

Several people at work (Tesco) have self-isolated several times each. The record so far is one of the bakers who is on his 7th stretch of self-isolation right now. They leave their phones on in their lockers with the app still active.

 

[BNthree]

Despite of carrying on pretty much as have done over the last year or so, I have yet to be pinged and only know of one person that has. Yet when I listen to the news it seems like half the populations' phones are lighting up like Christmas trees?

I don't especially relish the idea of 10 days self-isolation but it does feel a little like I'm in a parallel universe compared to what I see being reported.

More tests being done (lateral flow tests at home) and a more easily spread version of the virus (Delta variant) means more people carrying the virus and finding out they have it. That means there are more people to alert that someone they know they they’ve been in contact with has the virus (being pinged). Most of it is under 30s and those with kids. Presumably you’re neither of those groups? Personally I’ve not been pinged or alerted to isolate either but know plenty of people that have including my kids. Know a teacher that had to do 5 isolations in a row (with few days between each) due to kids in their classes testing positive. A different friend got pinged and when isolation finished went out for a pint to celebrate. Mate that they saw there tested positive 2 days later so my friend had to isolate again.


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