Are you still using the Covid App?

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Are people still using it and getting pinged?

Sorry, this should be in chat!

I never downloaded it. I'm self employed, wasn't eligible for SEISS as I fell between the cracks, and just couldn't afford the time off work - it would have been totally unpaid as I can't even get SSP due to being self employed.

No. Switched it off ages ago.

We weren’t allowed it at work. We were also advised not to download it at all...

Just curious to know if it’s still being used by many people.

In my area very few places have the qr codes to scan anymore ive kept it just to make sure I know the local restrictions 🤣

Yes in that it’s still active on my phone. I haven’t been pinged in months and months.

Tried in for a while but it mullered my phone battery so took it off and never bothered since, even with a new phone.

Yes. And I've never been pinged.

Lol,no.

Uninstalled it forever ago.

Ive still got it but only been pinged once, from the first time I went out of the house after having covid. Needless to say I didn't isolate again.

I have it in case needed to get into somewhere but have had the tracking turned off for a long time. Also haven’t been anywhere for months where they are still enforcing the QR code.

Never used it in the first place. I always just pretended to check into places, nowhere ever checked.

Never did

Nope. Never have. Why take the risk of being pinged?!

I also try to avoid handing over my contact details for track and trace purposes.

Yes and I was pinged last week for the first time!

Never had it

@Waxonwaxoff0

Never used it in the first place. I always just pretended to check into places, nowhere ever checked.

Haha....yeah I've done this a few times too!

I never downloaded it. We had instruction to leave our phones at home or turn off the app if we had. The nature of my work would have meant I was continuously isolating as a close contact despite using PPE and having stringent hygiene measures in place and testing x3 weekly.

Good god no. I never downloaded in the first place. Any place I went to I signed in the old fashioned way. When people started getting pinged in June/July I was bloody glad I hadn't downloaded it.

Yes. Was pinged this morning after first day back in the office. Yay!

Haven't had Covid yet. To my knowledge anyway though fully vaccinated. Had a PCR test today within an hour of being pinged, results tomorrow and hopefully that's it. Weather is shit so good excuse for the first fire of the season and a film so no huge drama.

Yes. I work across many schools.
When I have been pinged, (twice already this term) rules say I still have to carry on but at least I can try and avoid the more vulnerable children and adults.

I used to fill out the paper contact details if I went somewhere. Nobody asks now but if they want me to scan a code (a few places still insist) I’m afraid I just point my switched off phone at it...
I don’t know what the law is anymore re. Signing in.

Nah I needed the space on my phone.