Protect Scotland app exposure

[Archie1989]

I am a tad confused. I just received a notification to say I had one potential exposure in the last week. It was for a week ago, with a timestamp for when I was at home with my young son and husband.

When you click on the notification, it doesn’t tell you anything else. What am I meant to do with it? The app isn’t clear, and I’m struggling to find guidance.

I’m surprised that the Protect Scotland app didn’t seem to come under the same scrutiny in the press, as it’s pretty cr*p

To clarify. Protect Scotland is the Covid tracking app in Scotland.

Covid exposure like you have to isolate?

Or is it the thing when its checked and its telling you all the time its cross checked? And it's basically a pointless list of times in last week it's checked against your interactions with others eith the app. If it's that it's a bit of a random list and I just ignore it. Not sure if you get more Gita on that the more people you pass who have the app on.

Hits not Gita!

(That's my friends name so Autocorrect loves that)

I'm not sure what's wrong with the app? Aside from not a huge number of people using it and having it turned on I think it's done well with the not having identifying info issue.

The random weekly or so list is only thing that's baffled me a bit but I see it as like when a firewall antivirus software things tells you all the times its scanned a document. I think its just telling you all the times its scanned and checked another phone thing.

Is it this you got?

I got similar on android on 2 occasions.

I've had a few of these.
I got one saying I've been near someone who has tested positive then another a few days later saying my risk has been assessed and no action is required. You don't have to do anything unless they tell you to.

And my friend tested positive 48 hrs ago and still hasn’t got a code to put into hers... she’s at home isolating but v annoyed that scheme is so lax ...

@BugCatcher879 that’s what it looked like, except it noted 1 exposure. I exported the exposure list to email and was able to see the time of the exposure, which was last Saturday afternoon. No other kinds of notification related to it.

Reading through th info, I wasn’t sure if it only logs it if you’re within a few metres for 14 minutes.

*15 mins

I guess it can only go by proximity, I wonder if it was someone visiting one of your closest neighbours? How far does Bluetooth work I wonder.

I'd imagine I would get a notification if one of my upstairs neighbours contacted it.

@DizzyPigeon it could be the case. We live in a block of flats and above a shop. The ceilings are v tall though, so it’s definitely further than two metres....so possibly it could be a Bluetooth range thing

I think that will be the reason. Could have been someone in the shop, even. That's the limits of this kind of system, but at least it tells you when it was, so it gives you a better idea of whether it's likely to be the case.

Just thinking...we also live on one of the busiest junctions in Edinburgh, with many bus routes. Double decker buses are often stopped outside our window, waiting for the traffic lights to change. I’m surprised we haven’t had more notifications. Interestingly, my husband, who also has the app, and was in with us that same time last week, didn’t get an exposure listed.

I get a weekly exposure notification message. If you're not being told to isolate then ignore them.

None of these things are foolproof. I've heard similar stories about track and trace tracing on person but not another. It's really all about doing the best we can.

Something working mostly well is better than nothing at all.

If you got it but your husband didn't it sounds as though it could have been from the bus or something like that - your phone was on the window sill, his phone was through 2 stone walls in the bedroom?

The track and trace app has sometimes given alerts to people living on the different floors of flats which is the main reason I have not downloaded it.

You can pause tracking on the scottish app when home to prevent this. Or turn off bluetooth when home if you dont need it on

@Archie1989

Just thinking...we also live on one of the busiest junctions in Edinburgh, with many bus routes. Double decker buses are often stopped outside our window, waiting for the traffic lights to change. I’m surprised we haven’t had more notifications. Interestingly, my husband, who also has the app, and was in with us that same time last week, didn’t get an exposure listed.

it doesn’t count a couple of minutes as an exposure, it has to be at least 10 (or is it 15?)

you say it gave you time of exposure. Does it actually say ‘time of exposure’? could it not be that the time/date given is when the app cross checked your exposures with other devices? This seems to happen at random at all times of day and night according to my phone

I read somewhere the 'time and date' it tracks to is the time the person you were near updated with a positive result, not the time and date you were near them... if that makes sense.

Not gospel though so don't quote me on that 😂

My friend with Covid has had to chase to get her app code - three days after she tested positive. She reckons she would still be waiting . Her husband got a ping yesterday evening on his app. Lots of lost time in the system.