Will You Be Downloading and Using the New NHS COVID-19 Apps?

Willing2Learn

lol 

debitcardmayhem

RumRat said:

It may harm my witness protection status....

Predictive text on RR ? surely you mean witless

Willing2Learn

Tee-hee!!! You guys are funny!!!

RumRat

debitcardmayhem said:

RumRat said:

It may harm my witness protection status....

Predictive text on RR ? surely you mean witless

I'm beginning to feel that way locked in here.....

dan958

So this is where all the tin foil went.

Be_Happy

I will download once I'm sure of 2 points.

Does the app clearly show the length of contact time?  I don't want to be forced to walk past someone for seconds where a pavement narrows and then end up self-isolating for 14 days.
Secondly, are people contacted when someone notifies that they have covid or is it only after they have had a positive test?  It seems that the vast majority of tests turn out to be negative despite people thinking they have it.  Don't want the morons who used to empty schools, shops etc with bomb hoaxes thinking it would be funny to notify they have covid and causing others to be self-isolated.

I also don't see how a place with so few potential covid cases can be used for the trial.

DoaM

Be_Happy said:

I also don't see how a place with so few potential covid cases can be used for the trial.

Because it's like a sealed environment ... there shouldn't really be anyone leaving or going to the island, so the movement of people can be more controlled. If you then upscale it to the mainland (GB) the relative results should be similar. (GB is another island community, simply on a much larger scale than the IoW).

littleboo

Be_Happy said:

I will download once I'm sure of 2 points.

Does the app clearly show the length of contact time?  I don't want to be forced to walk past someone for seconds where a pavement narrows and then end up self-isolating for 14 days.
Secondly, are people contacted when someone notifies that they have covid or is it only after they have had a positive test?  It seems that the vast majority of tests turn out to be negative despite people thinking they have it.  Don't want the morons who used to empty schools, shops etc with bomb hoaxes thinking it would be funny to notify they have covid and causing others to be self-isolated.

I also don't see how a place with so few potential covid cases can be used for the trial.

According to Rory Cellan-Jones on teh BBC, when someone reports symptoms, contacts will be advised to maintain social distancing. If that person then has a positive test, the contacts are told to self isolate. 

Be_Happy

That sounds OK

neilmcl

Willing2Learn said:

I always have the GPS switched off.  I don't want the state knowing my where I am, thank you very much!

The "state" doesn't need you to have GPS switched to know your location. Mobile phones have been able to be tracked long before they had GPS installed in them.