Indeed. There’s a high chance we will kill millions of vulnerable people worldwide just so that we can have a nicer summer holiday and meet our extended family in the pub.
The rest of the world have a right to push back on this, frankly.
1 Like
‘Say - know what’s a better strategy than national restrictions? How about we total lockdown for a random percentage of the population each day. That’ll get the economy moving!’
1 Like
I’d love to know the data on how many people are deleting the app.
It will likely be currently low as a lot of places make you check in with it before coming in. I suspect people are deleting and reinstalling to reset the app, rather than totally deleting it.
Come Monday though I suspect it will shoot up.
Personally I do not understand why a fully vaccinated person can test out of the isolation from August 19 (or 16?) but can’t from today. It makes no sense.
I also only found out recently that the app pings anyone you were within 2 metres for 15 mins or more with not only on the day your symptoms started but also two days prior which could be an insane number of people isolating for one person!
2 Likes
I didn’t realise a delete and reinstall resets it!
It does. It’s actually pretty privacy secure and doesn’t seem to store any data on your phone once deleted.
You can also just reset it within the app though:
2 Likes
It is yes, technically, and you can check in still even if it’s telling you to isolate.
1 Like
It’s possible to turn off Bluetooth contact tracing and still be able to check in to venues.
On Android if you turn off exposure notifications in settings, it’s still possible to use the app and check in to venues. Not sure if it’s the same on iPhones?
1 Like
You can do this too but I doubt many realise this.
1 Like
So apparently the traffic light system now goes:
Red
France
Amber
Green Watchlist
Green
This government is great at making really simple rules then completely fudging them.
3 Likes
Completely ignoring the fact that the US dropped most restrictions (including mask mandates) ages ago, Netherlands has already tried this (without these kind of public doom-laden predictions);
We are 9th most vaccinated country in the world (NYTimes Vaccination Tracker) and we have a mere 1% of the world’s population, and of that 1%, only 0.3% (based on current figures from the GOV UK Covid dashboard) tested positive last week.
It is a quite frankly astonishing level of hyperbole, especially given the hoops you are required to jump through to leave/enter the country at the moment.
I work in central London and there have been your groups going around there since March. We were one of the first countries to get the Delta varient - our ‘border controls’ barely even slowed it reaching us. The government lost control of the borders ages ago basically.
The many exceptions yes. Also the fact that we only started hotel quarantining late, and from a few countries. The rest we let in and trusted to isolate at home, having arrived in relatively centralised airports and having travelled home likely on public transport sometimes hundreds of miles to a home where they may or may not actually have isolated in.
4 Likes
1 Like
Are we feeling free yet?
The amusing thing about this particular journalist is that his twitter timeline is tweets and retweets about countries easing restrictions too soon and seeing cases rise, or having to backtrack, and generally has been anti-easing of restrictions until they got to go out clubbing.
Anyway, I just hope this doesn’t bite us in the butt 
enjoy!
3 Likes
Were they hosting a counting down to when the club can open from inside the venue? 
1 Like
This is what I couldn’t quite get either. They aren’t seated, clearly not in groups/bubbles, all standing with no masks and by all accounts waited until midnight for the dancing to start?
I don’t have a time stamp of course, but it was about 00:20 when I saw this.
2 Likes
Happy freedom day all, try not to go too wild today 
2 Likes
I believe so. Someone who was obviously annoyed forwarded video footage from one club to the Met Police on Twitter citing a breach of lockdown rules on 18 July.
I suspect nothing will be done; they were just making a point. 
1 Like
Technically the restrictions were lifted at 11:55pm. I imagine they put those 5 minutes to good use. 
2 Likes