Would you use the App?

Very informative B9. I heard that the Google/Apple system was being looked. Why on earth wasn't this open to scrutiny before it was trialled I wonder? Or do I?

Sorry Google/Apple system being looked at.

Hmmm! Has the government just spaffed another £250,000 up the wall?

Spaffed! Never heard it before but sounds briliantly expressive

Greeneyedgirl It was Boris's expression growstuff is being ironic. You can hear him here- about money spent on historic child abuse being "spaffed against a wall" www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_FSqfXyUFk

Has anyone thought about who will do the contact tracing for the so called 'NHS' app?

I read in the Times on the 4th that the government are outsourcing to private call centre operators, one of which is apparently SERCO!

They are reported to need 15,000 operatives who will receive one days training.....

Thanks trisher I get it now.

Well, who saw this coming?

UK starts to build second contact tracing app

www.ft.com/content/446df516-4ec5-4c06-b39f-dd89ea5f6f0b?fbclid=IwAR2T7nJqIo34R7NbOQfB-0xhw8ys9j6fysvoh8SEjZ_JxbJL2zJjUXyR1x4

Not only that, but local public health directors are being asked to take charge of testing in care homes, as an admission that centralised systems have failed.

Hopefully, the whole test, track and contact system will be transferred to local authorities, who are in a better position to co-ordinate what's happening at grass roots level and have been kicking their heels because central government was excluding them and handing contracts to certain mates.

Unfortunately this App is not very efficient as many have already pointed out. It relies on feeding back to a central system then out again.

There are better available so why on earth use this one?

That's why an alternative one is being considered … after the government has wasted £250,000 for no particular reason.