Anyone Downloaded The Coronvirus App?

[dave50]

I haven't and I doubt that I will.

[dannyk13]

And if you don't have the app you are alerted by e-mail after the NHS receive information from someone who has the app.

[Hopkirk]

Of course I've downloaded it.

It's the right thing to do.

[ichkeria]

“ And if you don't have the app you are alerted by e-mail after the NHS receive information from someone who has the app.”

You’re confusing two different things: you can be contacted by the NHS if someone who tests positive names you as a contact. As it says.
The app on the other hand can’t know about people who don’t come in contact with it via Bluetooth. That really would be quite clever

[theshedman]

I downloaded the app but my problem is that I keep forgeting to pick up my phone when I leave the house.

[New Judge]

From the NHS “Testing & Tracing” page:
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If you test positive for coronavirus (COVID-19), you can help the NHS contact people who may have caught the virus from you.

***What happens if you test positive***

After you get a positive test result, you may be contacted by NHS Test and Trace.
You'll be asked for information about where you've been recently and who you've been in close contact with.
This will help the NHS contact anyone who may also have caught the virus.
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If they ask me where I’ve been recently I’d have to tell them this (which I explained on another thread):

"In the past two to three weeks I've visited four local restaurants, at least three local pubs. I've spent two nights in Dorset, two in Cornwall (again visiting a number of hostelries and restaurants). I've visited the Eden Project in Cornwall, Hampton Court Palace and the Tower of London (which I usually visit at least twice a year). I've been on buses almost daily, made at least six train journeys and been shopping in probably half a dozen different shops. I've also had two lots of visitors to my house and two builders in repairing my front drive. And that's just what I can think of off the top of my head."

I wouldn't have clue who I might have been "in close contact" with (whatever that might mean). So good luck to them in sorting that out for me.

I won’t be downloading the app. The government currently has enough methods of confining me to my home enforced by the threat of a hefty fine if I transgress. There is absolutely no way I will provide them with another route to do the same when it’s likely the system will get abused by all manner of nerds and misfits who think it might be a laugh to file some false reports. No thanks.

[bobbinwales]

How they will laugh judge. Well done. That'll teach em for trying to save lives

[ichkeria]

In theory, NJ, as I was saying above, the app ought to be able to deal with scenarios like the above,
However it doesn't appear, at the moment, at least, to be all that accurate. I dread getting a notification, which would almost certainly be spurious in my case, telling me I've effectively got to stay in my room for a fortnight, with no prospect of getting a test. While my family, who may have caught the virus off me, can do as they please. And all the while all of us might be, as it seems the majority of cases are, asymptomatic, and yet equally infectious.
The fine for non-compliance has it seems quite arbitrarily been imposed, as have fines, actually, for wilfully condemning someone you don't like to house arrest :-)
I'd be much more comfortable with all of this if testing was available in such situations, but unless you develop symptoms it isn't (and even if you do it seems problematic)
If the new vortolex testing technology comes off then that could dramatically change things. But I've lost count of the number of technological breakthroughs which were going to be "gamechangers" and never happened.

[jourdain2]

My phone does not have a camera. Saw my daughter today and she felt obliged to point her phone at one of these strange squares - but then discovered that she could switch off the tracing element - so she has done.

[Zacs-Master]

Why bother scanning a QR code if you’re going to turn the tracing element off?

[woofgang]

have any of you read my (admittedly long) post from the bloke who has worked on this? It answers most if not all of your objections.

[youngmafbog]

Yes and I dont believe (all of) it. Why should I after all the COVID lies that have been spread by the Government and their co conspirators?

I have worked in IT all my life, I do know what is put in 'behind the scenes' and often very few people even know the full scale of the application, but they think they do.