Dont Forget To Disable The Nhs App If You're Going To The Pub To Watch The Match

[dave50]

That way you wont have to self isolate after and you will help to support the pub industry.

[dave50]

Good luck with trying to stop people in pubs cheering and jumping up and down!

[ichkeria]

Given the prospect of increasing numbers of positive cases, and given consequently the prospect of countless thousands being “pinged” by their app and told to self isolate, despite probably having had at least one vaccination, I’d have thought that until the rule changes there will be a lot of people deleting the wretched thing altogether whether going up the pub or not

[cashier]

I don't have a smartphone, am I being selfish by not wanting one nor having any intention of buying one?

[ichkeria]

I think you already know the answer but …

no

[Peter Pedant]

// It is clear that the government has decided to take a realistic approach at last and accept that the spread of the virus cannot be prevented.//

are we still at zero children have died under age 5 ? - anyway they are not vaccinating as the side effects approximate the sequelae of infection. raw case fatality ration 30 in 30 000 - is pretty micro - 0.1%

the large pool of kiddie infection may generate mutants but they want to wait and see. The original choice of the vaccine target as the most invariant part of the protein seems to have paid off ( not by chance) in that it remains active despite mutation

[dave50]

England in the final on Sunday. Forget the virus, it will be party time in the pubs without the stupid app.

[New Judge]

//And sums up how unashamedly selfish and ignorant some people are.//

This is becoming a bit tiresome, bobbin (not to mention uncalled for – especially as far as “ignorance” goes.

The government estimates there may soon be 100,000 new cases a day. But let’s be conservative (for the purposes of this argument) and say it reaches only 50,000 by Monday week. Let’s say each of those generates two contacts for Track & Trace (not unreasonable and probably an underestimate). This means that in a week’s time 100,000 people a day will be told to isolate for ten days. By then end of those ten days, when the first of them are “released” there will be one million people unable to properly function. Those released will be replaced by more new entrants and, if cases rise, as we are told they will, that figure of one million will only go up. The overwhelming majority of these people will have been double jabbed and many, many of them will neither suffer any symptoms nor (more probably) develop the disease at all.

How do you propose that the country is to function, let alone prosper, when millions of healthy people are forced to remain at home and businesses are forced to close because one of its customers tested positive? And how do you propose that the people themselves will fare when they are unable to work or do anything else for a couple of weeks? It is simply not sustainable and we are at a point now where the only people being “selfish” are those who insist on this ridiculous strategy being pursued. As for ignorance, I suggest ignorance is confined to those who don’t do their sums.