Contact tracing app - binned

So it's been announced today that we've moved to level 3, just one level away from social distancing hopefully coming to an end. Level 3 is going to help so many businesses open again, especially in hospitality. Blackpool for example have extended the illuminations for two months from September 4th to January 3rd to make up for the lack of business this year. By the time the government get a app going, it will probably all be over.

 

Why are you so keen for Social Distancing to end?

What do you have planned? I can honestly say social distancing hasn’t impacted my life in the slightest.

Things been closed has, but that’s different to social distancing. Even with no social distancing it’s unlikely large events will be allowed to happen.

 

Humans are naturally socialable. We can't hug a person when we want or meet in big groups within our friends or family. We can't even greet someone with a handshake. Places can't allow in as many people as they want. You have to queue to get in places. Public transport is running at a reduced capacity. Even when pubs and restaurants open it's not at all normal to have up screens between tables, not be allowed to go to the bar and for places to expect card only when there is no proof cash handling is a risk. We have to work towards getting back to the life we've always had.

 

Another mad element of this is the idea that now the app won't be ready until Autumn/ Winter - WHAT??

So many other countries have rolled it out already. That will be far far too late. So many people will have died in that time. Just get the app that everyone else is using and roll it out!

Incompetence that we're all paying for, and they're just pretending everything is fine and this isn't a problem. Treating the public like fools.

 

That we’re paying for in both money and lives.

Incompetent doesn’t even cover it.

 

IIRC the cost of the app was £250m, the bridge was *only* £50m.

 

I'll have another go then Scoff, Chris Graylin's failure with the British firm Seabourn Freight, in cross channel freight but never run a ferry service and owned no ships,

 

Stop being negative.

Where's your Bulldog Spirit.

On a serious note it's an utter joke. And all we get is 'they're doing their best'.

 

That one was £108 million, same as Pestfix and same as the contract with Serco for contact tracing. Definitely summat dodgy going on with that amount.

 

The government brought in these alert levels and then completely ignored their own system. They made lockdown changes that weren't appropriate to Level 4, when the scientists wouldn't agree that it could be dropped to Level 3. The figures I'm seeing don't support such a change now either. Some serious arm twisting has probably been going on behind the scenes, hence the absence of experts at the daily briefings. The daily new cases figure has plateaued for the last couple of weeks and hospital admissions actually went up yesterday compared with the figure 7 days previously. The outbreaks in Leicester and food factories in Anglesey, Wrexham and Cleckheaton clearly weren't meant for public consumption either. This is the government who were willing until the last minute to follow a herd immunity policy, so forgive me if I don't believe that lives are their priority now. Their focus is now boosting the economy and they will have priced all their changes in deaths to make it happen.

 

There’s a reason for that, It’s called The Corona Virus Pandemic.

 

NHS 111 calls are dipping all the time, which shows people aren't worried about symptoms or their health. It's another decrease from the Friday before. The 7 day average has also gone down by three quarters. I know someone who works at the Cleckheaton factory and it got dealt with very swiftly. Hundreds work there and everyone got a test and got sent home to isolate. Thankfully the person I know tested negative so isn't one of the up to 150 Examiner website claim were positive, although I don't know how they have found out a number before the workers have been told.

It's still an improvement from the early days because if it had happened in April everyone wouldn't have got a test and so some would have been out still spreading it without knowing. Hospital admissions will hopefully not mean an increase in deaths. The virus through social distancing has had fewer places to go and new stuff are being found out all the time like the new approved drug, the Covid inhaler that could be available soon and telling people to make sure they aren't low on vitamin D, which 98% of people who have died have been.