Teachers being told to turn off NHS contact tracing app at work

[NebularNerd]

Has anyone else had this?
Presumably to avoid too many staff having to isolate if someone tests positive.

Surely most pupils at school won’t have the app anyway since it’s only for over 16s? And the only way that the app would know that there was a positive case is if the teacher/staff member uploads their test result - I would hope they would have been telling the school themselves in any case not relying on an app?

I work in a clothes shop and we’ve been told to turn it off while in work.

There seems to be a awful lot of people who don't understand how the app works, what constitutes a close contact or how the app even knows someone is positive. Like with other Covid related stuff there also appears to be an awful out of people who know a friend of a friend's cat who had see you soon happen relating to the app!

The test alerts and subsequent messages that disappear have all been explained on numerous occasions and do not relate to 'true' alerts.

I've not been able to add my positive result to the app. My test was done in hospital and the codes I've been given day invalid on the app. Instead I completed the T&T information online when sent it the next day. I had already contacted anywhere there was a potential contact - dh, dd, two friends, school, my GP surgery and our local pub where we went for a meal. School (my work place) and pub - no close contacts were determined by PHE.

@NebularNerd what’s an ECV husband? I googled ECV and it came up about breech birth.

I don’t believe about the M3 contacts. I have driven on M3 from London to the coast and back. Didn’t happen to either myself or those with me in the car.

Also driven often on M25 and M23 near the airports, quite regularly, didn’t happen to us either. I think that just a bunch of scaremongering so people won’t use the app.

[quote AdoreTheBeach]@NebularNerd what’s an ECV husband? I googled ECV and it came up about breech birth.

I don’t believe about the M3 contacts. I have driven on M3 from London to the coast and back. Didn’t happen to either myself or those with me in the car.

Also driven often on M25 and M23 near the airports, quite regularly, didn’t happen to us either. I think that just a bunch of scaremongering so people won’t use the app.[/quote]
Clinically extremely vulnerable

@ceeveebee

Surely most pupils at school won’t have the app anyway since it’s only for over 16s? And the only way that the app would know that there was a positive case is if the teacher/staff member uploads their test result - I would hope they would have been telling the school themselves in any case not relying on an app?

Which is why there's no need for the app within schools, there are already (or should be) most robust ways to trace contacts. There's no gain from the app, and a risk of false positive isolation notifications.

Staff should of course be allowed the app for out of school interactions.

Not a teacher but was told to turn it off by my osteopath as it could pick up anyone in the treatment room next door despite me not seeing them

Slightly different but I wonder how it works in shared wall houses. If neighbours both have the app and its pinging away on a bedside table all night with only a wall between them and one of the neighbours test positive.... the app doesn't know they're in different accommodation?

I may be overthinking but a friend has recently received a notification to isolate but has not been out so is trying to think of all exposures

It's not acceptable if you have your phone in you and don't have other protection.

Not only not acceptable, but also when the app will be most useful. If more people use it it might encourage fewer managers to be total muppets about H&S.

Friend's NHS community team told not to have it active at work because they are exposed to Covid patients in appropriate PPE so the app would constantly want them to isolate.

When I used to teach, I could easily be 2m away from my colleague through the wall but not see them all day. No direct Covid risk, but the app wouldn't realise that and isn't the notification supposed to be legally binding if you are notified to isolate?

I download and delete the app when I'm going somewhere where I'm likely to need it, which is not often that I'm anywhere other than home, outdoors or the supermarket. It pisses me off constantly giving agressive red notifications that tracking is off, fuck off I'm at home.