Coronavirus outbreak

[mjr]

Breaking news: Whitehall mandarin admits typo'd email to Boris telling him to "impose strict limits on six while recovering from covid" is responsible for disruptive policy change!

 

[tom73]

The App is back and this time it's going live from the 24th.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-54118022
I think this boat has sailed with confidence all but gone in the test and trace.

 

[SpokeyDokey]

Economy continues to grow in July (not back to pre-Covid levels yet) - a step in the right direction:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-54113948

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

Economy continues to grow in July (not back to pre-Covid levels yet) - a step in the right direction:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-54113948

Fits with my experience. I'm back to pre-Covid levels.

 

[marinyork]

The App is back and this time it's going live from the 24th.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-54118022
I think this boat has sailed with confidence all but gone in the test and trace.

Just sounds like it's going to be the hodge podge of systems being slowly replaced with a 2-D barcode for the app. Still with bits of paper and other random systems as well.

That is actually a slight improvement in my eyes. Albeit that you may have effectively with the app two separate systems competing - the bluetooth bit and the cruder tell all 100 people in a pub to isolate one. Which one wins out?

 

[tom73]

Just sounds like it's going to be the hodge podge of systems being slowly replaced with a 2-D barcode for the app. Still with bits of paper and other random systems as well.

That is actually a slight improvement in my eyes. Albeit that you may have effectively with the app two separate systems competing - the bluetooth bit and the cruder tell all 100 people in a pub to isolate one. Which one wins out?

Yep If all it end's up being is a glorified "get out of jail card" for the now legal requirement to take customer details. It's a missed opportunity to get smarter with data just at a time we need it.

 

[marinyork]

Yep If all it end's up being is a glorified "get out of jail card" for the now legal requirement to take customer details. It's a missed opportunity to get smarter with data just at a time we need it.

On the other hand, in a sense as it's a legal requirement, people might as well use that than whoever else has bodged a system. Depends who you trust most!

 

[tom73]

On the other hand, in a sense as it's a legal requirement, people might as well use that than whoever else has bodged a system. Depends who you trust most!

True it may make a few placers not taking things serious sit up and notice once customers on mass start to be told stay at home. Using the app. They can't use it as an easy option then not run crying when it bites them back.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Cummings will still be overseeing things then... View attachment 546460

Where is it the world leaders go for their economic summits?

 

[marinyork]

Where is it the world leaders go for their economic summits?

The wastelands of skaro. The lucky ones get to stay in the Khaled bunker.

 

[marinyork]

SAGE say only 20% of people isolate fully for 14 days. Lots of commentary about effectiveness of what has now been labelled moonshot.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...eople-in-england-self-isolate-fully-sage-says

 

[tom73]

That's on top of reported 20-25% people giving out contact detail due to lack of trust in the system.
In the mean time outbreaks among care home staff are starting.

 

[MarkF]

@MarkF Would you mind sharing where you get your information from?

Professors, doctors, oncologists, nobel prize winners......those with their views soon censored. I am really very middle of the road. Not anti-vaxxer, nor a conspiracy theorist, just anti-hysteria, anti-lockdown & anti mask as I believe the unintended consequences of these actions to be far worse than the virus.....I've not changed from my first post.

 

[Stephenite]

Professors, doctors, oncologists, nobel prize winners......those with their views soon censored. I am really very middle of the road. Not anti-vaxxer, nor a conspiracy theorist, just anti-hysteria, anti-lockdown & anti mask as I believe the unintended consequences of these actions to be far worse than the virus.....I've not changed from my first post.

Thanks for answering the question.

 

[Edwardoka]

Out on the bike today because of cabin fever (I've not been out on the bike for a month) unfortunately due to some road closures my route took me through the city centre.

The number of people I saw with masks covering their mouth but not their nose was definitely more than the number of people I saw wearing them properly - quite a few wearing them as chin ornaments too.

Glasgow is meant to be in lockdown, zero sign of that today.