NHS tracing app

[JohnB]

A cashier's exposure is short, and can be well controlled with screens. A better worry case is hairdressers and waiters. I can't see either profession willing to repeatedly stop work for 2 weeks, as they are in longer and closer contact wit others, badly paid and rely on tips, so sick-pay compensation schemes won't work.

Would you ban all cash transactions to ensure every purchase can be tracked, and give access to your credit card records to the contact tracing team. It would need a deep dive into a bank' system to get the timestamps before you could identify the shop assistant who served you, and be a huge civil liberties issue. Security cameras with face recognition could be used, or Google's GPS records, but ditto.

Apparently we've always had contact tracers for notifiable diseases, but they are used to work on small numbers of cases, and their numbers have been cut. To do tracing properly needs the manpower of a police murder investigation, which is clearly impossible, hence the reliance on an app, with all its problems of bad data.

[Gaggsy]

What do you lot think?

Well I think using unnecessary, and rude language such as "faceless suit" detracts from the merits of your argument.

Well when I wrote the post, I had had a dram or two (this being the pub) and I could not remember who the person was, so faceless suit was actually how I perceived him at the time so that is what I put.

You presumably missed my subsequent post where having figured out who it was, I switched to referring to him as "that nice Mr Hancock".

He's not faceless. He has the face of Lieutenant Gruber


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