A recent survey suggested that more Brits are now willing to follow self-isolation rules after coming into contact with someone with Covid (90%) than in early March (84%). But how important are compliance rates if people don’t know they are required to isolate? The Test and Trace app – which has cost the taxpayer at least £35 million – is contacting fewer than half of its users who need to self-isolate, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS). The Telegraph has the story.
The NHS Test and Trace app is contacting people who need to self-isolate in fewer than half of coronavirus cases, new data show.
A survey by the ONS found that in early April, only 48% of those who had downloaded the app and were required to self-isolate received a notification.
Of these, just 15% received the app notification at least a day before any other source, such as a phone call from a contact tracer.
The figures are the latest indication of the extremely limited impact the technology has played in reducing the spread of cases, despite costing at least £35 million.
They follow the delay of a software update earlier this month after a new check-in feature was found to violate Apple and Google’s privacy rules.
The ONS figures also found that nine out of 10 people required to self-isolate after being in contact with someone who tested positive for coronavirus said they fully adhered to the rules.
However, of the respondents who did not follow self-isolation requirements, 78% reported they left the house for non-permitted reasons during their 10-day isolation period, the ONS said.
Of those who left their homes, 27% said they had gone to the shops, while 13% went out for outdoor recreation or exercise.
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Google – started by the CIA.
Farcebook – started by the CIA.
Oracle – its first and still biggest client – CIA.
etc ad nauseum.
CIA-DoD run the US and most of the world. The Rona tard scamdemic was a pilot project of theirs. The 2020 election fraud. Climate. The endless wars….
Snowden, Assange….truth tellers. Yet the sheeple hear not. 1 person in 10 might be clued in that the CIA-DoD is behind most of what is going on.
The US is the single biggest threat on the planet. You only have to watch the glee of US pilots bombing civilian lines during the Iraq ‘war’ (replace ‘war’ with US control of oil supplies) to understand the sickness that pervades that country. Watch them bang their hand to their chest when their national anthem is played and tell me they’re not the most brainwashed population on the planet. They’ve been sold a story. A story that’s been told since the beginning of their history – the US is the only really free country on earth. Tell your hostage’s the same story on repeat forever and they stop becoming hostage’s. They become willing accomplices in a cult.
Totally agree.
55 or more conflicts since 1945.
Rona scamdemic – the ultimate wet dream for fascists. CIA DoD project.
As was the stolen US election of 2020. No more than 130 million will vote in a US election (out of 160 mn). Drumpf won 80 mn (millions burnt etc). Pedo-criminal-half wit-money launderer CIA stooge Biden won max 50 million. I am guessing it is more likely 40 mn.
How do you get away from google and google chrome?Is there any way we can keep information away from these creatures? I believe the Google business original mantra was “Do no evil”, how very far they have strayed since then, they are a malignant parasite on humanity
I use duckduckgo as a search engine. It’s good for privacy and is generally censor-free (although it has engaged in censorship over the Ukraine/NATO/Russian war).
https://duckduckgo.com/
Using Brave is the best way I know of currently: https://brave.com/
Don’t use Google products. It’s fairly easy to find alternatives.
Why not?
DuckDuckGo, Brave, Safari, Firefox are alternatives to Chrome.
DuckDuckGo also has a search engine that can be used with any browser as an alternative to Google.
De-google-ify!
https://degooglisons-internet.org/en/
It’s/They are ven worse. Much worse. https://brownstone.org/articles/google-has-usurped-democracy/
Switch to protonmail, for a start.
I’ve got Gmail but more and more I’m using protomail.
There are alternatives…. DuckDuckGo for one.
Curious that Wikipedia is not mentioned. A wiki search on DS makes an interesting reading, and even better on TY, where even his achievements are shown as negatives. I wonder if G & W are related.
I put Wikipedia’s extreme left wing bias down to the fact that lefties have nothing better to do than jump all over Wikipedia smearing people they disagree with, whereas those not on the left prefer to get on with their lives, working, spending time with their families and leaving other people the hell alone. Perhaps it’s just a fantasy of mine though.
Yandex
It would be if there was a list of advertisers that use Uncommon Ad Space and a list of advertisers that boycott free speech platforms. I would use it to inform what companies I buy from.
This is the final nail in the Google coffin for me, I now use DuckDuckGo
Stop using google. Its simple. Brave/DuckDuckGo work perfectly fine. Google Intelligence governed. The alternates I mention, at least there’s a chance they are genuine and not controlled by the same evil.