Coronavirus (2021) thread

[Nellies left peg]

Would that be an essential journey?

Looking at the queues it would appear that it is

 

[BigOscar]

My wife had Covid and my app said zero exposures that week!!
The thing is obviously shite.
That said I think People blaming Boris is a bit harsh as I am pretty sure he spent all this money with the intention of it actually working.

If you put Dido Harding in charge of something, it is 100% your fault when it doesn't work

 

[BlueHammer85]

The UK does not have a monopoly on T&T systems collapsing, 1.8 million people in Portugal have uninstalled our equivalent since September and my wife who is Swiss has reported the same from her family back home.

We have to accept that some of the logistics we are trying to implement are a challenge to all nations around the world as we roll out systems at record speed without being able to fully factor and analyse the variable scenarios that would impact end users’ decision to actually use the application. It was a throw of the dice..

https://www.portugalresident.com/st...ed-by-1-8-million-portuguese-since-september/

I’m sorry. But if you can find my quotes at the time when the app was launched I said it’s a complete waste of money and time. Hardly anyone downloads it, most want to save their battery, old people (the most vulnerable) don’t have a clue about downloading apps and Bluetooth etc.
young people really going to check in where they are and pay attention to it.

was so utterly obvious it would be a failure.

billions wasted whilst the Goverment does its best to give kids in poverty fuck all to eat.

 

[Ban-jani]

Greater Manchester highlights:

Stockport again had the worst day today as shown by the biggest pop score rise in a day of lower numbers - though itself back down below 200 (just) - as was everyone bar Manchester though it was also down big to lowest number of the week here.

Stockport are now starting to become a bit of a concern. Certainly the worst performing of the 10 boroughs right now. And bigger numbers than they should have on a day where cases fell a lot everywhere.

Both of Oldham and Bury managed to get below 100. Even Wigan was below Stockport.

Total cases 1523 - down 340 - but that is a slightly smaller proportion of the NW drop of 1281 it ought to be and as a result the GM % of the NW total rose to 30%,

This is the highest it has been in the past week as many places elsewhere in the region had bigger falls - such as on Merseyside.

Right now - though the numbers are happily not out of control and not at the level they were when GM was up there driving the NW wave in October/November - there is little doubt that GM is on a bit of a knife edge and Stockport especially could tip either way as right now the biggest problem in the region.

The lockdown should help cases not go out of control and hopefully fall.

But I will not be amazed to hear in the media in a day or two that the new super spreader is revealing big numbers in Stockport. It is not the obvious candidate for being the worst in GM based on past data.

As someone in Stockport, well one of its villages in the borough, I can’t understand why, traffic is bad but I don’t see that much stupid stuff.

People must be secretly mixing.

 

[Gabriel]

What I’m finding fucking annoying is that the house next to me is student house, the country is in lockdown I can’t go anywhere and the fuckers have all returned in the last week

Unless they're studying a subject that requires a practical or some other form of face-to-face tuition, there really should be no need.

 

[Ric]

Only wrong by 99.86% - it cost £35m

NHS tech bosses outline cost of coronavirus app development | Computer Weekly

The government is forecasting spend to exceed £35 million in the controversial contact-tracing app, a Public Accounts Committee on digital transformation in the NHS has heard.

www.computerweekly.com

I meant for the whole Track and Trace system, rather than just the app alone, but concede I got the figures wrong. It was only £22bn, not £25bn.

 

[Tim of the Oak]

Unless they're studying a subject that requires a practical or some other form of face-to-face tuition, there really should be no need.

They have paid their rent and they will be bored at home. Some will have a practical element to their courses.

 

[Gabriel]

They have paid their rent and they will be bored at home. Some will have a practical element to their courses.

Perhaps for the latter point, but I fear more will return for the former point. Heard one girl interviewed the other day saying she wanted to leave her family home, went back for Christmas, and drive to her rented accommodation to be with her three housemates. No practicals, simply paying for the room and having mental health issues living at home.

 

[PannickAtTheDisco]

Perhaps for the latter point, but I fear more will return for the former point. Heard one girl interviewed the other day saying she wanted to leave her family home, went back for Christmas, and drive to her rented accommodation to be with her three housemates. No practicals, simply paying for the room and having mental health issues living at home.

It's not a reason though. They just want to go back and not behave in the rules, as proven by the students out making snowmen and throwing snowballs in a lockdown. We don't need anymore mixing so they should stay where they are and if they try to travel back they should be arrested. They're just whinging because when they're in the family home they have to behave.

 

[sky tot]

They have paid their rent and they will be bored at home. Some will have a practical element to their courses.

Yep my lad went back to Leeds , he shares a house with 2 others . It’s hard enough keeping a 21yr old in , but when he was at home me and his mother bugged him ... I would of done the same at his age .