NHS Covid 19 Track & Trace app now available

Panicked a frightened? - nope! Just using common sense.

I am astounded by the way folk who are not virologists or epidemiologists feel free to pronounce on something in which they have no expertise. They will be advising brain surgeons and rocket scientists next!

TrendyNannie6 - I think the classifications (e.g. medium) are taking into account what is going on in adjoining counties, as there is a likelihood of incoming spread from these.

Unless everybody decided to stay under house isolation for the next year of so, (provided you still have a home to live in, and are not evicted as not paying rent/mortgage), whenever we go out more, infection rates will rise. Inevitable!!!!

Still less deaths each day than from Flu, and we are not yet in the flu season!!!!

Until such time as a vaccine is developed (if ever), then this virus, like so many other illnesses, will be around, and we need to learn to live with it.

The real tragedies and deaths from this last six months and the next has yet to unfold - the result of the thousands of deaths from illnesses not being treated, from the suicides due to breakdowns of relationships due to economical collapse, to serious depression and other mental illnesses increasing.

A panicked and frightened community is one that is much easier to control. Just that we are being panicked and frightened about the wrong things.

suziewoozie

I remember when Eat Out to Help Out started and some posters made it sound as though you were being totally unreasonable and unpatriotic for not so doing.

Eat Out to Help Out is partly responsible for where are are now.

Not sure about the app though. ArcGis app shows 0-2 cases in my area. NHS app shows we are in a medium risk area?‍♀️How big is an “area”. I am fed up with so much conflicting information and not actually getting the information I actually want.

Working for me on an iPhone 6S

I've downloaded it, so far so good. I was also given a coronavirus test by my council who were checking the area randomly. Luckily my test was negative.

I've downloaded it.

Trendynannie have you clicked on the word medium, its a bit scary, brings it home about how small an island we are.

Did mine this afternoon I’m in medium risk area

I had a bit of a struggle at first. Turned out I had Bluetooth turned off. I knew I was in a high risk area but just had it confirmed. I am going to have to put a note on the front door to remind me to take my mobile phone whenever I go out.
Now to sort out OHs mobile!

I misunderstood pollyperkins, sorry, I thought the coffee shop had asked you for your details as well as the app. I did a quick online search but I couldn't find out why you had to do that. Does seem odd.

Yes I did do the QR thingy on my phone and I have the app, but I still had to type in my name and phone number and the number of the cafe which was written next to the QR thing. . Maybe I did something wrong.

Hummm .crafty I’m still not sure about it being a civic duty. I think I’d accept this position more if we had a functioning testing system and T and T system and if SD and mask wearing etc were properly enforced

people who don`t download because they cannot are not to be criticised, of course not, I expect there are several who would like to download but cannot

Others who could and don`t are purely and simply selfish. I didn`t need to download, I am careful and live semi-rural but I have done it because it is my civic duty and the more people that help protect others, the better this will work. It could form a ring of steel around the vulnerable

I remember when Eat Out to Help Out started and some posters made it sound as though you were being totally unreasonable and unpatriotic for not so doing. Some of us still didn’t feel safe so doing, some couldn’t afford it, done had no one to eat with. Well we need to be careful about what we say about downloading this app. Some of us can’t ( as already explained) and can’t afford or do not want to upgrade, some could install it but have concerns about so doing. No one should feel guilty about not downloading it. Personally, I’m sorry I can’t but as I said upthread, I’m covered by DH. I’ve no objections to it but don’t think people who don’t download should be criticised.

bluebelle we aint seen nothing yet, covid has not yet started. Perhaps you know someone who has had it and appears better, well ask them how their health is in 6 months, in a year. Read about long covid, read about heart, lung and kidney damage which will be permanent for the rest of life

Its time to put selfish feelings aside and pull together

Its our civic duty to pull together and help to defeat this very dangerous oncoming pandemic. No-one will be tracked

Alegrias you explain very clearly thank you

I don't have an iPhone, couldn't afford one, mine is a Samsung J5 which costs me 11.99 per month from a well known supermarket, next February I will have had it for two years, I will then own it and the monthly charges will go down. Downloaded the app easily this morning.

I'm starting to feel like a cheerleader for this app, and I'm not, honestly. But here I go again.

I suspect that the coffee shop didn't know how the app works Liz46. But in any case the QR code part is secondary.

The main purpose of the app is to identify if you have been within 2m of somebody for more than 15 minutes. If you go to the coffee shop and they take your details, they can trace you. But if you sit next to someone on the bus, you don't know their details so they can't be traced by name. But if you both use the app and then one of you tests positive, the other will get a message.

So, the app is in addition to the contact tracing done by pubs, coffee shops etc, and finds people you wouldn't be able to find otherwise.

I'm not sure where you got the 10% figure from Barmeyoldbat, but 10% would be better than nothing.

The best tracing system I have seen is in a coffee shop where they simply write your phone number on the till receipt that they keep. They reckon that only 10% of the country will be able to use this app.

pollyperkins

I tried using mine at a coffee shop this morning as was disappointed because as well as the QR code I had to put the number of the venue, plus my name & phone number. What’s the point? I could just have told that to the girl on the door. I thought it would be automatic.
Have I missed something?

I think most places have a barcode (?QR code) that you can register on with your mobile. My husband says he has seen them on shop doors.

suziewoozie

Frog yes it has to be a smart phone which can be android of iPhone . If the latter, the oldest model which can be used is an IPhone 6S and you just have to check the IoS is updated

Thanks - my mobile is just the ordinary run of the mill sort.

I tried using mine at a coffee shop this morning as was disappointed because as well as the QR code I had to put the number of the venue, plus my name & phone number. What’s the point? I could just have told that to the girl on the door. I thought it would be automatic.
Have I missed something?

Thank you Alegrias and Jaxjacky x

I've just downloaded on SE. I'm in medium risk area.