The “pingdemic” isn’t just damaging business and social life, but also the ability of the police to deal with crime. The National Police Chiefs’ Council (NPCC) says that response times are “under strain” due to staff shortages caused by self-isolation rules. 7.3% of police officers and staff are currently absent from work, yet the Government appears to be in no hurry to come up with a solution. Sky News has the story.
The NPCC said that in some forces, functions such as control room operations are being hit by high numbers of absent staff, impacting their ability to respond quickly to calls.
Earlier, one Police and Crime Commissioner warned the public that call response times will rise due to the large amount [number] of people being asked to self-isolate after coming into contact with a positive coronavirus case.
Steve Turner of Cleveland Police said the force has had to cancel rest days and annual leave for some officers, as well as bringing in others from different shifts, to fill gaps caused by staff having to quarantine after being close to someone with Covid.
It comes as a leading epidemiologist, who runs the ZOE Covid symptom study, claimed the NHS Covid app is no longer useful.
Professor Tim Spector told Sky News: “I think employers should tell their staff if they feel unwell, they have cold-like symptoms, then they stay away but I don’t think the app saying that someone might have passed them by in a supermarket is actually that useful anymore in the current state of the pandemic.”
He added: “It doesn’t seem to be appropriate at the moment… it seems to be overkill.” …
The Government has dismissed calls to change the sensitivity of the app, but has announced exemptions for a “small number” of fully vaccinated critical workers who are identified as close contacts of coronavirus cases.
Mr Turner called on the Government to test healthy emergency workers daily so they will not automatically be taken off frontline duties.
He told the BBC: “We have got to provide a service. We suddenly find ourselves cancelling rest days and cancelling leave and bringing officers in from other shifts to cover where we have got the gaps.
“However, our call times will go up, we will miss some calls we would normally pick up because we have less resilience in the call centre and all of these things will have a knock-on effect for the Cleveland public.” …
An NPCC spokesman said: “Nationally, the police officer and staff absence rate is 7.3%. However, in some forces some functions, such as control rooms, are experiencing higher levels of absence.
“Absence rates in control rooms affect a police force’s ability to respond promptly to calls from the public, in particular emergency calls.
“Police forces affected are guiding the public on how to contact the police while they are under strain. We are engaging with Government about how to best resolve this issue.”
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I bet if somebody makes a slightly racist remark then the pigs will turn out in overwhelming force to arrest the culprit.
Of course. Took them just a few hours to track down and arrest a 12 year old:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/53381586
But that was a serious matter – a multi-millionaire professional sportsman had been personally insulted.
Bill Gates funded the creation of a “vaccine passport” tracking system long before the coronavirus pandemic
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I wonder if he said this before or after realising he was talking about a 12 year old boy. If after, I’d say it is Roy and those who made similar comments who are cowardly and despicable.
Clearly you aren’t taking this with the proper seriousness, citizen. It’s only a short step from multimillionaires being offended to the KKK dragging blacks out of buildings and lynching them.
If you make light of the former you are supporting the latter. Being young is no excuse for such evil.
Of course, you’re right. Give me a moment to hook up my hands-free self-flagellator to the 5G network…
Many a true word spoken in jest.
We are probably only a techie and an influencer or two away from thousands of BLM-worshipping white middle class virtue signallers buying one of those and posting videos of themselves using it daily to atone for their “white guilt”.
If they pay me the money they’ll spend on the flagellator I’ll do the job with my old steel toed garden boots, and I’ll do it properly too; no flinching at the sound of splintering bone with me.
only people who want to get pinged get pinged – its lovely weather to be sat in the garden on full pay – the rest of us didn’t download the app
The government can’t backdown on this test and trace disaster because they’ve somehow squandered nearly £40 BILLION!!! on it
would £40 billion not have been better spent on isolation hospitals (with state of the art ventilation/air sanitising kit) for the annual respiratory disease treatment demand that has overwhelmed the NHS every winter for decades
Or even some decent trials of repurposed, safe, low-cost COVID treatments.
Monoclonal antibodies, ivermectiin, hydroxychloroquine, Vitamin D, Vitamin C, thiamine, lysine, N-acetyl cysteine, nebulized hydrogen peroxide, iodine and more besides. These substances work for Covid and some other respiratory infections. They have been used to great effect, despite government malfeasance, prohibitions and outright lies.
Trials are fine but don’t let them stop the use of these effective agents in the meantime. On the same subject, it would have been very welcome, if the zero liability experimental Covid “vaccines” had been properly trialled, before unleashing them on a frightened and woefully misinformed public.
The ones the Palestinians didn’t want?
Don’t be ridiculous.
according to Prof Carl Henegan we had them up until the 1980’s
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/Lets-bring-back-Britains-fever-hospitals
The £40 billion wasn’t for this, it was for what’s coming next.
FRANCE: they’ve rejected the amendment that required the use of the vax pass to end once the ‘pandemic’ is over. If the vax pass comes in, it STAYS. This ISN’T about a virus, it is NOT about health. Take note people in the UK – this is us next
https://twitter.com/Arwenstar/status/1417850544912224265
its not about health – its about control
Its true this one was rejected last night. But its only one of 1,000 amendments being considered over 4 days, there are currently 900 more to go. The government are messaging the stats as much as they can to increase ‘cases’ whilst this goes on, but the hospital numbers and the ITU numbers are both still going down.
There is probably a majority of Senators in favour of mandatory vaccines for care home, fire brigade, and some othe health workers; but there is a lot of opposition right across the political spectrum for the enlarging of ‘health pass’ use in restaurants, bars, cafes, shopping centres etc. There will no doubt be compromises, my guess is that ‘terraces’ will escape the pass .
There are already many reports of vaxed people refusing to use passes for cinemas etc in solidarity.
All is not quite lost yet… although it will obviously be a major step to full totalitarianism whatever the outcome.
I told my wife at the beginning of the year that if I’m not dead by Christmas I’ll be in a
concentration campprisonStop being very sensible, or you might get pinged.
It would have been better spent on treating cancer and heart disease.
How is it even possible to spend that much on an IT system?
It’s not the IT system per se (though government IT systems are always massively over priced), it is all the manpower around it, plus paying stupidly large amounts to companies that have track records of not delivering. Nothing new here, move on, ……
Even more significant is that same companies are well used to the financial bonanza that will result of the Government shanges its specification for the system. This probably explains last weekend’s sudden volte-face on the likelihood that the sensitivity of the app could be reduced…
Consultants on £600/hour
F me, I’m in the wrong job.
These are not IT systems really, T& T is a bunch of spreadsheets being emailed around lowish paid contractors being billed to the state at vast sums.
Purely my experience, but the staff at the gym I know who have been pinged are not getting sick pay. In fact they are using their annual leave so they dont lose money. When asked why they have he app, they say “we all need to do out bit to stop the virus”.
There’s no accounting for stupid….
I think it’s admirable in a way, and I would be more than happy to be a good citizen if the laws, guidelines etc were fit for purpose, and if the disease was actually dangerous. The problem is that there no critical thinking, no research etc. Just blind following.
The amount of people I know who, during the first lockdown, only left the house for exercise once, as “that’s what the government says we are allowed to do do”. I asked if they had read the laws, and they said no. When I said it was not law, just govt guidance, they would say “well it does matter, that’s what we’re being told to do”.
Grrrrrr
I understand the point you are making about their noble motives, but I think we’re long past the point where blind obedience to authority can be accepted as worthy of any respect.
In fact, I’d say we passed that point when these constraints that the government should only be empowered to make as guidance, were instead imposed as law. That’s Chinese style state socialist totalitarianism, and even its advocates subsequently admitted that they hadn’t believed they could get away with it in this country.
They were empowered to get away with it by people like those you describe.
I don’t disagree. I just think we need to understand that some people’s motives are not nefarious, but noble – albeit misguided. People call me all sorts of names, selfish, needle dodger, rude, discourteous. All water off a ducks back for born and raised Londoner. But the brainwashing is strong in these people. They were seemingly rational beings before. Or perhaps not, and it’s taken this to bring it out.
Who knows, my friend.
I think our disagreements here are only of nuance rather than substance.
Beinbg gullible is never Noble, “i was only obeying orders” is another Gullible let-out
It is such people who allow totalitarian regimes to take hold. They are as guilty as those in government imposing it, ignorance is no defence in the eyes of the law.
If the government told such people to smear themselves in dog dirt they would do it.
That’s the big problem. The vast majority of people are unable to think which is why the government can get away with imposing totalitarianism. Hitler is reported to have said that it is a good job the majority of people do not think, or words to the effect.
*facepalm*
really, they are self employed and giving up annual leave?
no doubt they will be double jabbed to do their bit to stop the virus – how’s that going
they are employed by Nufield Health, but only get pay if they are actually sick, which they are not. Some have jabs, some dont. I’m just saying, lets not turn on eachother here. These people are just trying to do the right thing.
No doubt there are many skivers, but such is life.
It’s like people calling us all anti-vax loonies, when we are no such thing.
agreed – but you must admit its easy to justify sitting in the sun in the back garden rather than being at work when you ‘believe’ you are just doing your bit to stop the virus
Oh absolutely, and there will be huge numbers doing just that. 100% agree. But not all, and that’s all the point I was trying to make.
Part of me can’t blame some of them – working shitty jobs they hate to make ends meet, not seeing their kids, commuting 3hrs a day for minimum wage.
I just wonder how many of those being forced to stay at home to stop the virus would keep the app if getting pinged required you to do 4 hours extra work each day
I dont think we need to wonder too much
A comment in touch with reality. Thanks.
The ‘grudge’ comments about people ‘enjoying’ all this shit get really tedious. There may be some – but the majority have been brainwashed into thinking this virus is indeed this terrifying monster, and that they are ‘doing their bit’.
Home working and furlough are not a joy to most people. But they have accepted the narrative. They honestly believe – despite the evidence – that Track an Trace, Vaccines and all the other government nonsense is ‘right’.
… and that is the problem. Not skiving.
you’re on a different planet pal – people deliberately getting pinged is a reality – denial may be virtuous for you in your socialist fantasy – but it is unhelpful in the real world
My counterpart at work had 6 months paid holiday while I worked every day, lasted 2 weeks back and resigned. Another I know was off for a year on furlough and resigned when asked to come back. This was the opportunity of a lifetime for some.
It was indeed. I have many friends who have been furloughed on full pay and they loved every minute of it. And who can blame them?
I have no ‘socialist fantasy’ – just feet in the real world. What a pathetic comment.
I said ‘most people‘ are not skivers or fakes, although you may exist in a little enclave where that’s not the case.
The point I’m making is that this issue is much more serious than your comfort blanket allows. ‘Most people’ actually support all this stuff.
agreed – my comment was too harsh
My experience from what I hear my kids saying is that 90% of the school closures must be because it’s nearly the summer holidays and tests are easy to fake. They are literally laughing at the whole set up
It’s good to know the kids have got a bit of go in them!
Obviously solid muscle – from the neck up!
Don’t worry, it’s only money all they have to do is print some more of it. We are in Weimar Republic territory now.
And it’s costing billions every week in lost production and services. A real winner, as it serves well the government’s fear and dislocation agenda.
Exactly!
I feel it’s a bit simplistic to think of this current state of affairs as a case of incompetence versus conspiracy.
There will be existing sinister agendas. And ever-present opportunism.
However, I think that what we are faced with is a witches-brew. I think incompetent headless-chickens play a very large part. And of course, they have to perpetuate their failed interventions, because otherwise is to admit to a fuck-up of monumental proportions and associated dreadful consequences for life, health, liberty, education and economies.
Other large quantities of poison ingredients are the inflammatory, sensationalist MSM; UNsocial-media; technology; and modern ‘values’.
While I do accept that there are existing agendas exerting very powerful influence, I believe that this state of affairs is a culmination and conglomeration of festering, broken society.
More probably the £40 billion is hiding a lot of other expenditure such as passports, more ctv, electronic signalling and such like. Plus of course lots of brown envelope expenses.
Remember that a billion is a thousand times a million. So, figures like 40 billion quid, for a population of 60 million, work out to be the best part of a £1000 a person. I don’t think that much is spent on each of us in the normal health care budget. And that is just the app!!!!! What about the rest if the squillions being hosed out of taxpayer funds.
Only by doing the maximum possible damage can lives be saved, according to Prime Moron and great fat communist fraud Kim Jong Johnson.
Daily testing??? Sticking an abrasive object up someone’s nose and scraping their mucosa in the same place every day cannot be without potential consequence, surely?
another, less intrusive test, is to ask yourself, ”do I feel ill” – and if the answer is ”no” – then you are not ill, the only thing you well infect others with is wellness and positivity.
Government are still saying “LA LA LA I CANT HEAR YOU LA LA LA”
With the next protest due in central London this coming Saturday you can bet your bottom dollar that the “pingdemic” will be forgotten by the police and they will be out in force harassing peaceful protesters.
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https://www.naturalnews.com/2021-07-21-gates-funded-vaccine-passport-before-covid-pandemic.html
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Maybe the lack of concern over the harms (again) caused by telling people to stay at home, is because it’s like an extended furlough. It’s summer, take some time off, chill out. I wonder if any public sector workers don’t have the app?
All the ones that are able to work from home.
So the pingdemic has been going on since 1991? Who knew?
I am surprised Daily Sceptic are not making more of yesterday’s news that the home office is proposing legislation that will mean any journalist who embarrasses the government will face 14 years in jail. If this legislation applied at the moment then the journalists who reported Matt Hancock’s affair would now be facing 14 years.
Where is that gormless fucker now? I miss him.
He’ll be back, just like Ferguson
Looking to the government for a solution. Like they need Columbo to tell them to uninstall the stupid fucking app.
Some good news at last
At last, some good news!
Bilge Gates – he has a fair bit to answer for these days, anybody seen him?
Government strategy…
1) Announce end of restrictions.
2) Create an excuse (pingdemic) to say easing of measures has created a crises alongside rising number of hospitalizations.
3) return to state of lockdown.
All this is is the beginning of a future narrative wherein those that work for the state and do it’s bidding will be unrequired to follow the rules the rest of us serfs will.
Doubt that? Give it time.
Give it rest FFS. What was the excuse before you got covid to blame? Never short of sly arseholes to hide in roadside vans to ping hapless grandmas for doing 40 in a 30 on the way to the library.
Anybody else seen this footage from Monday’s anti-lockdown demo?? I am shocked, horrified & ashamed of what our country has morphed into over the last 18 months.
Resistance GB Violently Arrested in Parliament Square, Freedom Day Protest – YouTube
Interesting that so many vile thugs have their shoulder numbers covered up as well as their faces. I don’t expect to see this clip on the BBC.
Nor me… I’ve posted it on FB & mailed it to a few other friends who will do likewise. It needs to be seen & someone who has the digital equipment to freeze frame so that the shoulder numbers can be identified & complaints against those officers can be made. It is more akin to Eastern European Communist policing…
Not all that uncommon around the world these days, sadly
https://www.facebook.com/107626951190745/videos/181765597237152/
He’s a paid shill,Agent Provocateur,Traitor.
Unable to deal with crime?
What’s new?
Staff shortages caused by the ‘pingdemic’? And there was I thinking that the reason was the appallingly low calibre of the lazy antisocial trash they recruit these days.
Like key medical staff in hospitals, the police should ban these apps.
Police response times have suffered because they haven’t got a clue what their purpose is anymore. Ask any operational bobbie (if you can find one) – they now spend their working shifts attending little else but mental health calls and other time consuming matters that are actually the core responsibility of social services or the NHS. What the public would consider to be “Police matters” certainly don’t feature on any list of priorities held by those who jokingly refer to themselves as management. So those urgent calls for help from members of the public go unheeded because the miniscule percentage of Police staff who actually wear a uniform and respond to calls are tied up trying to sort out matters which they aren’t trained to deal with and have little or no powers to resolve
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As for staff absences, sounds entirely normal to me for this time of year – it’s the standard annual leave season for people with kids. Resources are always thin on the ground during the summer. Operational staff have always had their shifts extended and days off cancelled – it’s a direct result of piss poor management and allocating about 90% of your staff to Monday-Friday seat polishing office non-jobs.
One thing you can be certain of – they’ll have no problem filling the seats in the crew busses which will be setting off in convoy to London on Saturday morning as “mutual aid” for Met. Those middle aged female demonstrators won’t beat themselves up you know!
Shortage is nothing to do with the “pingdemic”, it’s because they have got so many attending “How To Be A Pig Ignorant Violent Thug Whilst Appearing Virtuous School”.
Apparently it’s now the only training required when joining, especially for those coming from other countries whose grasp of English is debatable, or those who were snotty little shits that were bullied at school and now want to do the same to others. Knowledge of the law or how to deescalate situations and show respect to law abiding citizens is also not only not required, but extremely undesirable.
Fact.
It beggars belief that people still have the app.
Like you could ever count on them anyway. If someone breaks in, just beat them. Otherwise you are in danger and the police won’t be there in time to help.
They turned up speedily to intimidate a 12-year-old girl in Manchester.