Complaints after Covid app tells 600K to self-isolate – but about the APP, not the government
Ventilator: if your boss wants the Covid-19 app altered so it doesn’t ‘ping’ you when you’ve been in touch with someone who has the virus, then you’ll almost certainly end up in hospital, attached to one of these.
Businesses have been complaining to the government because 618,903 people have been ‘pinged’ – told by it to self-isolate because of contact with someone who has Covid-19.
The alerts all happened in the week leading up to July 14, meaning the contacts all happened before Boris Johnson and his Tory bozos ended social distancing restrictions and the requirement to wear masks.
But it seems bosses want to browbeat the government into making the app less sensitive, so they can keep a full workforce.
How predictably short-sighted!
The problem isn’t the app – it’s the government that allowed the Johnson (Delta) variant of Covid-19 into the UK because it didn’t close UK borders, because it wanted a trade deal with India, because its Brexit was so bad.
That blunder – not a mistake but a deliberate choice by a genocidally-incompetent prime ministerial failure, let’s not forget – has sent the UK’s Covid-19 infection rates sky-rocketing.
People are filling up hospital Accident and Emergency departments again. Many of them are double-vaccinated, but that isn’t stopping the government from planning to exempt double-vaccinated people from self-isolating after being pinged, from August 16.
Schools have been identified as the principle spreader of the virus, but that isn’t stopping the government from exempting all under-18s from self-isolating after being pinged, from August 16.
And, again, people are dying.
On July 21, 73 deaths were recorded – the most in a single day since March 24.
The number of hospitalisations and deaths is expected to rocket as a result of the relaxation of social distancing rules on July 19.
And in this context, businesses want the app’s criteria loosened, so it doesn’t tell their staff to self-isolate.
There’s a logical question to ask, following on from all this:
What kind of business do these chumps think they’ll have after all their employees catch Covid and end up in hospital – as a result of their stupid, selfish, short-sighted demand?
Source: More than 600,000 people told to isolate by NHS Covid-19 app – BBC News
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I’m sorry but this is yet further proof of people’s stupidity and complacency. It is our behaviour that is the driving force behind this. That people are wanting exemptions, rather than people modifying their behaviour shows either a lack of understanding of infectious, respiratory diseases, or wilful ignorance.