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Anyone more worried about track and trace than the virus?

103 replies

Cecillie · 17/07/2021 23:21

I'm fairly laid back about coronavirus , had it early on and now double vaccinated.
However cases in my area, like most places , are rocketing.
Yesterday 3 separate friends were pinged by t and t and are now isolating.
Until this stops on august 16th , I'm really worried that I'm going to get hit which will completely wreck my business and have a knock in effect on loads of my clients .
For that reason have deleted app and will be hunkering down, going out less and spending less than I have done in last few months .
Have been happy to eat out etc in last few months but will only be doing outside socially distanced stuff now.
It's madness , we either need to lit it rip now and get on with life or keep restrictions going . Next month is going to be very bumpy for lots of people I feel.

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CrouchEndTiger12 · 18/07/2021 08:37

The better question is has anyone pinged by the app actually got covid.

I've not met anyone who has gone on to get it.

jumpbounce · 18/07/2021 08:38

Sure people want everyone to assess their own risk and move on. So the vulnerable should assess their covid risk and stay at home and let everyone else get on with it but I never see much suggestion (I have seen some on this thread) that if you can't afford to isolate and it will impact on you then you avoid situations that could put you in this position in the first place because well thats assessing your risk of having to self isolate.

Mollyboom · 18/07/2021 08:39

Don'y use it, just give false details and carry on as best you can.

Santastealer · 18/07/2021 08:39

@CrouchEndTiger12

The better question is has anyone pinged by the app actually got covid.

I've not met anyone who has gone on to get it.

I work in a large school and we have also never know a child who is isolating later test positive.

The cases come in one by one. Whole class isolates, no-one else within that class ever tests positive during their isolation period. That is of course assuming they are doing their lateral flows.

WanderingFruitWonderer · 18/07/2021 08:39

Yes, I deleted the app months ago (didn't have it long) actually mostly because it was using up my battery so quickly, because I had to turn Bluetooth on to activate it. But, I definitely wouldn't want it now. It's not an issue, as I'm not going to cafés or pubs etc for the time being.
I live by the sea, and if I meet with friends we meet on the beach for a socially-distanced picnic. I'm still being very careful. I've no fear of catching Covid (fairly sure I had it mildly at the beginning of the pandemic last year) but terrified of having to isolate, especially as I'm self-employed. So, continuing to be very careful from that point of view. I also, obviously, wouldn't want to give it to anyone else. So, staying away from indoor crowded spaces make sense all round for me...

MrsArchchancellorRidcully · 18/07/2021 08:40

@CrouchEndTiger12

Never had the app. Always take a photo of the qr code in restaurants etc to pretend I'm checking in.

Never had covid.

Me too. I never properly check in anywhere, just pretend to. I'm double jabbed.
iloveredpandas · 18/07/2021 08:41

@Hellcatspangle

I don’t have the app but you do have to still give address out at restaurants etc so could get caught out

Never heard of anyone being called to isolate by a pub or restaurant - how would they know whether you'd been sat close to an infected person? They don't even have times on usually, so it's not worth the paper it's written on.

The only way you might have to isolate is from having confirmed contact with a positive case, and getting a phone call from T&T, so just be careful who you mix with. I'm only mixing with my own immediate family and close friends outdoors at the moment.

Most restaurants have table plans to work out close contacts - I've been asked to isolate by t&t after restaurant provided them my details.

An entire group of us were asked asked to isolate after 3 members of staff tested positive another time - the entire restaurant was then classed as close contacts much like a bubble would be at school. I guess if all the waiters are positive then you are all close contacts as you will have been served by them.

BlackLambAndGreyFalcon · 18/07/2021 08:48

@santastealer - my lea have said that they are keeping the bubble system until the end of term, which is on Thursday. We are due to go on holiday on Friday morning, so yes I am very much dreading the "call of doom" this week!

PineappleMojito · 18/07/2021 08:49

My workplace asked us not to have the app. Of course would isolate if told by track and trace but the app is ridiculous

redandwhite1 · 18/07/2021 08:50

Yep as want to go on holiday!

Although I know people who get pinged and ignore it so they don't care but I don't agree with this approach

toastantea · 18/07/2021 08:50

@iloveredpandas

I was it taking about the app. No was responding to your post saying be it check in will tell people to isolate. It doesn't. You say it happened to you due to a restaurant table plan, this should not have happened and absolutely is not the reason for checking in. In fact all the literature surrounding venue check in is very clear it is not designed for contacting people to isolate. Your case is not the common, quite the opposite.

AbsolutelyPatsy · 18/07/2021 08:50

so people will be indoors, mixing, refusing to give correct details, so not isolating
it will go on and on

toastantea · 18/07/2021 08:51

I was NOT talking about the app Blush

woodfort · 18/07/2021 08:57

Yes but I assume this is true of a lot of people. I’m less worried about T&T now the school year is over though as I always considered that my biggest risk.

I was terrified every time when taking my young child for a COVID test because of symptoms. Never terrified that he had it but terrified that I’d shut down the school year and ruin plans for so many people. Every single person I’ve spoken to from school has felt likewise. I’m so much more relaxed about it now because bubbles will be over and it’ll be close contacts only which hopefully means I won’t ruin a few weeks for quite so many people if he tests positive.

Not really sure how likely it is that I’ll otherwise be contacted by T&T. There have been quite a few instances at my DH’s workplace and they’ve always managed to say others weren’t that close. I don’t use the Bluetooth part of the app and rarely check in anywhere. Most of our days out in the summer holidays are just as a family unit and whilst we are doing play dates, I’m not nearly sociable enough that I’m out in various different social groups regularly at the pub or anything.. so really it comes down to a handful of families that we’ll do play dates weekly or so with.
We do occasionally, say once a week or twice, go to places I have to give contact information before hand for but I would imagine it would take a huge outbreak for every single person who went to a museum on a specific day to be contacted? I am pretty sure they don’t make 1,000 people isolate for one person who later tested positive…?

Lanique · 18/07/2021 08:58

Just delete the effing app.

Vickim03 · 18/07/2021 09:03

My husband got pinged from the app monday this week. His contact was the week before apparantly and was told to isolate for 4 days….. he went out for a meal with friends that Monday and they’ve not tested positive or had a ping themselves. What I don’t get is what about the over 6 days? He’d been to work, and we had a family gathering that weekend. He did lateral flows and they came back negative but I also don’t get the app. I check in etc with it but I do think that if I was really at risk You’d hope your friends/family would let you know your a contact and t and t would ring you.

Oysterbabe · 18/07/2021 09:05

I have the app so I can make a show of checking in when asked but track and trace is turned off.

tandtworry · 18/07/2021 09:05

Yes I completely agree, I'm unfortunately seeing the fallout of test and trace right now, DS is in hospital, has been for quite a while and is awaiting a serious operation. I had noticed the nurses getting quite stressed last week and one of them mentioned that so many staff are having to isolate the whole hospital is short staffed, I've seen the effect it's having and it's scary to be quite honest. There has to be a better way than leaving wards half staffed.

FakeColinCaterpillar · 18/07/2021 09:05

I know a few people where it’s been wrong: someone at work got pinged and it was from a second job. The positive person worked in another business in the same building, different entrance etc. It’s ridiculous

RobinPenguins · 18/07/2021 09:07

I’ve deleted the app and avoiding going many places indoors but I absolutely live in fear of the call from nursery which we’ve had 3 times now. The 16 August can’t come soon enough.

AbsolutelyPatsy · 18/07/2021 09:09

nhs staff do not use track and trace, they are advised to turn off the app when at work, i guess it could be related to their school kids

Waxonwaxoff0 · 18/07/2021 09:13

Yes. I don't have the app and I just pretend to scan when I go into pubs and restaurants but I work out of the home and have DS at school so there's always a chance of being in close contact with a case. DS finishes school next Thursday so I'm praying we get to the end with no bubble closure.

thenakedmolerat · 18/07/2021 09:16

"I don’t have the app but you do have to still give address out at restaurants etc so could get caught out"
just give a made up name and number.
Literally everybody I know does that

LadyCatStark · 18/07/2021 09:17

No because I’ve deleted the app and DS has finished school for summer now and we managed to get away with no isolations thank god!

Santastealer · 18/07/2021 09:31

[quote BlackLambAndGreyFalcon]@santastealer - my lea have said that they are keeping the bubble system until the end of term, which is on Thursday. We are due to go on holiday on Friday morning, so yes I am very much dreading the "call of doom" this week![/quote]
They are welcome to do so, but cannot force your child to isolate beyond non school attendance so it won’t affect your holiday.