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Self employed, I can't afford any more time off

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KingSheathBelle · 28/05/2020 02:24

The Gov self employed support is for three months.

I can't afford two week randon isolations. I need my income to pay the mortgage and bills, I am at breaking point

I can't obey.

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ListeningQuietly · 30/05/2020 14:13

If you read the articles about how the Track and Trace system will "work"
none of us will be getting calls Smile

MarshaBradyo · 30/05/2020 14:19

I don’t think it will happen that often will it? I find it hard to see that you’ll get multiple calls.

Did the extension for SE funding help op?

Listening what did you mean, I’m interested.

soloula · 30/05/2020 14:24

We're self employed and I wonder too how the track and trace will affect us. We aren't allowing customers into our shop (takeaway) and are serving at the door through a perspex screen so there should be no face to face contact and no prolonged contact within 2m with anyone apart from two members of staff. I'm concerned if someone tested positive and they said they had been to our shop then they might inaccurately identify us as a contact and we'd need to self isolate meaning closing our shop, even though we know that we haven't been in close contact with anyone apart from our two staff members and our household. It's a lot of trust put on people to give the correct information and for the call handlers to accurately question them. The whole system seems so fraught with opportunities for mistakes that could have huge impact on people's livelihood.

What happens if they phone me and I know I've not been a close contact with anyone? Can I argue they're wrong?

ListeningQuietly · 30/05/2020 14:27

Marsha
^www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/may/30/boris-johnsons-test-and-tracing-system-britain-lockdown^

and in the John Crace comments people are is saying that they will tell the callers that they bumped into Dominic Cummings in the Motorway Services Grin

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