Coronavirus outbreak

[roubaixtuesday]

More gushing stories about Johnson, who appears to have plenty of time for personal interviews with the press, despite having a country in its worst crisis for nearly a century to run.

It may be worth noting, as his insouciance and late lockdown was responsible for tens of thousands of deaths, that he's chosen to name his new arrival "Will Law Nick Johnson". Hiding in plain sight perhaps?

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

View: https://twitter.com/barnabynerberka/status/1256544650460094464

 

[tom73]

Disappointing interview with Shapps on Marr. Twice Shapps tried to make positive comments and make a point that cycling and active travel will have a part to play post lockdown. Twice Marr quickly moved it on basically killed all talk of it.

 

[kingrollo]

More gushing stories about Johnson, who appears to have plenty of time for personal interviews with the press, despite having a country in its worst crisis for nearly a century to run.

It may be worth noting, as his insouciance and late lockdown was responsible for tens of thousands of deaths, that he's chosen to name his new arrival "Will Law Nick Johnson". Hiding in plain sight perhaps?

Wonder if they will be as slow lifting the lockdown as they were putting it in place.

 

[marinyork]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-52510194

more stories on antibody tests, I suspect tje journos were investigating anyway but 'timed' and put out because the FDA has approved another major test.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

 

[tom73]

With the contact tracing app set to go live within weeks it still look's as iffy as it did when it was first thought about.
It still look's and sounds like a total privacy mess not to mention the rest.
Have NHSX got the means to make, run and control the app and it's data in house Or is it all going to be outsourced ?
If so who really owns the data ?, what will they do with it ? If people don't trust they won't use it.
Most people never worried about Cambridge Analytica till they had to. Centrally controlled data is not a great selling point.

 

[stowie]

Disappointing interview with Shapps on Marr. Twice Shapps tried to make positive comments and make a point that cycling and active travel will have a part to play post lockdown. Twice Marr quickly moved it on basically killed all talk of it.

Yes, I saw that. Shapps said about encouraging active travel with cycling and walking and Marr immediately countered with the case if you live 30 miles from work you cannot walk there.

Which rather ignores the huge proportion of travel that is within the range of active travel.

 

[mjr]

Marr's a petrolhead, put his classic motors in the titles to make them expensable. Wrong place to expect active travel to get a fair hearing.

Did you notice Shapps seem to say they should have built more testing capacity earlier?

Gove said about 75'000 tests in today's sermon.

 

[Tanis8472]

View: https://mobile.twitter.com/BorisJohnson_MP/status/1256977021336518656

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

With the contact tracing app set to go live within weeks it still look's as iffy as it did when it was first thought about.
It still look's and sounds like a total privacy mess not to mention the rest.
Have NHSX got the means to make, run and control the app and it's data in house Or is it all going to be outsourced ?
If so who really owns the data ?, what will they do with it ? If people don't trust they won't use it.
Most people never worried about Cambridge Analytica till they had to. Centrally controlled data is not a great selling point.

If clearly political and commercial interests, such as Cummings and his data mining buddy, can inveigle their way onto SAGE, then I'm going nowhere near a central data collecting app. They're as trustworthy as 100,000 tests a day.

 

[tom73]

If clearly political and commercial interests, such as Cummings and his data mining buddy, can inveigle their way onto SAGE, then I'm going nowhere near a central data collecting app. They're as trustworthy as 100,000 tests a day.

Yep I’ve just seen a list of who’s had a hand in this App it makes google look like a data saint.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Guess it won’t work on my dumb phone. Oh well...

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

Guess it won’t work on my dumb phone. Oh well...

I held out for a long time but eventually gave in and went down to the phone shop.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

I held out for a long time but eventually gave in and went down to the phone shop.

My PAYG dumb phone from Tesco was £4.99 and included £15 of credit. Ideal for me as credit doesn’t expire as long as I use phone at least once every six months.

I could buy 100 of them for price of a smart phone.

Plus battery lasts a few weeks not days!