This contact tracing app doesn’t make sense?

[Lemonpancakesultana]

If you have symptoms you tell the app so it then can contact people you are in close proximity with.

If you have symptoms you should be self isolating anyway so why would you be out and and about in contact with other people?

So what’s the point?

The main idea of anonymisation is that complete strangers should not be able to use the data in the app to track your movements, etc.

I can't imagine whole businesses, shops, offices closing down unless every single person has had close contact with the infected person. No doubt all will be revealed in time!

Whole businesses, offices and shops have been closed down for months round here, in a city with a death rate of 14 per million.
There are lots of things going on that were once hard to imagine.

So you are committing to careying your phone, on, with bluetooth, at all times? I don't usually have mine with me at work, or if I go out to shop or exercise. I'd rather not be constantly contactable.

This is why they are not making it compulsory. But yes, the sceptics here are saying that it will be hard to find enough people who fill all the criteria of:

• having a smartphone
• wanting to use the app
• being able to install the right app
• being able to use the app properly, e.g. with the right settings.

Is this app also a way of fining people in the event of future lockdowns, if they go out against government guidance? It would save the police a lot of bother.

The government will have to lean heavily on employers to play their part for this, I imagine there will be some costs compensated (still cheaper than furloughing) and with more testing they can cut down on needlessly isolating for fourteen days.

This app is just one of the tools they will try to use to to control the spread but I believe they need something like 60% of the population to get board with it.

I have no problem with using the app because I like the success it’s had in other countries but I already foresee issues with my manager. My colleagues child had a cough and instead of insisting she followed the fourteen day Household isolation rule they were positively cheerful that she got her brother to look after her dc. I work in an office based role in the NHS... I would have been less surprised to see that in previous private sector roles I had, but it was particularly galling to see it in action in the NHS.