Anyone Downloaded The Coronvirus App?

[dave50]

I haven't and I doubt that I will.

[ladybirder]

I can't get it on my iPhone 5. Can I get it anywhere else, on my laptop for instance?

[ichkeria]

Like I say probably nothing to do with the app

I’m not going to download something which is probably not going to do anything for me but send me a message based on spurious info and telling stay at home for 14 days. If it’s true that it gets it wrong in “up to a third of cases” that’s too big a risk. I’m not in close contact with anyone for the required time

[ichkeria]

“ Because I do not trust the Fat Controller, Herr Handcockup, Witless and GSK-Valance”

I couldn’t possibly comment :-)

[Mamyalynne]

My phone doesn't do Apps.

[dannyk13]

Ich, if you do not have the app and you have been identified as having been in contact with someone who has the virus you will receive an e-mail.

[ichkeria]

But that won’t be anything to do with the app

[dannyk13]

ich //But that won’t be anything to do with the app//
You will have been identified by someone else's app.

[tiggerblue10]

Yes

[ichkeria]

“ ich //But that won’t be anything to do with the app//
You will have been identified by someone else's app.”

Hardly: I’d need to be running the app, be carrying my phone AND have Bluetooth enabled for that to happen.

[bednobs]

lb you will not be able to get an app on your laptop ususallly, and unless you cart your laptop around with you when you go out, I can't see the point!

[dannyk13]

ich, are you deliberately not understanding. If I have the app (which I don't) and I trace positive for the virus that information will go to a monitoring service who will send anyone who hasn't the app an e-mail.

[ichkeria]

Er I don’t think so Danny.
“Anyone who doesn’t have the app?”
That’s about 50 million people :-)

[dannyk13]

ich:-
https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/testing-and-tracing/nhs-test-and-trace-if-youre-contacted-after-testing-positive-for-coronavirus/

[ichkeria]

There are other test and trace systems but the app works between app users.

[dannyk13]

Ich, read the link.

[ichkeria]

Like I say, your link refers to manual test and trace which is probably more reliable but also relies on people knowing who they’ve been in contact with

[dannyk13]

https://www.covid19.nhs.uk/what-the-app-does.html

[ichkeria]

What I’m telling you is, I don’t want to be fingered by an automated system which seems to be bit not that accurate.
Where it scores - or should do - is in situations where a significant number of people have been in contact with each other and - assuming the thing was accurate and people were using the app - then it would get round the issue of not knowing who all your contacts were.
I’m never in that situation,
If I was I might consider it

[ichkeria]

Sorry Danny I’m not sure what more I need to say: your latest link explains it at the very top: you are alerted if you’ve been in contact WITH OTHER APP USERS

[ladybirder]

Thanks bednobs.