DavidDeSchmikes
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My office colleague found out last Wednesday he had contact with someone who tested positive. He then got tested and was also positive.
Result was on Saturday, he said he spoke to test and trace that day but no one has contacted anyone else from our office.
We are all now self isolating. But it shows how ineffective Serco test and trace is.
As an aside I had raised the issue of our company not following government guidance for working from home, they agreed but too late, changed practice 1 day too late to avoid this debacle. Face palm.
I'm Health and safety manager at my place and last Friday I had a call from a staff member who was called by test and trace and told he was a close contact of a positive case.........14 days later!
14 fecking days later.
There are multiples of similar things I hear. Daily.
So it's not working in Ireland either
Who runs the test and trace in Ireland?I'm Health and safety manager at my place and last Friday I had a call from a staff member who was called by test and trace and told he was a close contact of a positive case.........14 days later!
14 fecking days later.
There are multiples of similar things I hear. Daily.
So it's not working in Ireland either
Who runs the test and trace in Ireland?
It is crazy. The whole point of lockdown was to get test and trace working. Instead, our government gives it to Tory friend, private company, Serco, but calls it NHS test and trace. People are not being contacted until it is too late.
I said it at the very beginning - outsource toYeah, there are problems with the process and the technology but ultimately the systems across all countries don't have enough people to deal with thousands of cases and hundreds of thousands of contacts per day. There's just not enough people for that now and the amount of people required to deal with that just isn't feasible. The system is supposed to work in situations like Korea's where cases are at >100 cases per day and things get pushed to the limit when they're at 500.
I said it at the very beginning - outsource to
Call centres, they are trained and can bang out thousands of calls a day. They have done other medical type work before so why not this? In ireland they have been training civil servants and taking them a few from each department, it’s nowhere near enough
At the end of May I interviewed for a job with the NHS, developing software for the Blood and Transplant Unit. The recruiter who contacted me about the job had placed a couple of others there and was close to one of the lead devs who told him they were ready to release something which they’d been working on since long before COVID but could really help in the fight. He said that as far as he knew, release had been delayed for a ”more convenient moment” which had been translated to him as “saved for when the government needs some good news”. I’ve no idea what it was or if it’s been released yet but if they really do delay stuff which could actively help save lives, for political wins, they’re even more psychopathic than I thought. And that’s saying something.
At the end of May I interviewed for a job with the NHS, developing software for the Blood and Transplant Unit. The recruiter who contacted me about the job had placed a couple of others there and was close to one of the lead devs who told him they were ready to release something which they’d been working on since long before COVID but could really help in the fight. He said that as far as he knew, release had been delayed for a ”more convenient moment” which had been translated to him as “saved for when the government needs some good news”. I’ve no idea what it was or if it’s been released yet but if they really do delay stuff which could actively help save lives, for political wins, they’re even more psychopathic than I thought. And that’s saying something.
I know people who were trained up, ironically all in one big hall, but have never been used after. It’s a bit of a shambles reallyThis.
I work for a state funded organisation.
Some of my team were taken for temp reassignment. But sent back a couple of weeks later.
Who runs the test and trace in Ireland?
It is crazy. The whole point of lockdown was to get test and trace working. Instead, our government gives it to Tory friend, private company, Serco, but calls it NHS test and trace. People are not being contacted until it is too late.
Another pause in vaccine testing? https://edition.cnn.com/world/live-...13-20-intl/h_72e29fab0761c417b9948364bcc471da
cheers thanks for that.Not a vaccine. That’s a treatment. Similar to what the orange maniac was injected with.
EDIT: Talking about the pause to the Eli Lily study. The J&J trial is a vaccine. Which makes two phase III vaccine trials paused so far. Not ideal but not necessarily a deal breaker.
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cheers thanks for that.
on a side note down here its election time and a bunch of ads we have running use "the orange man" name as a tool to jokingly frighten people into voting. Its a shit ad to be fair but you get the idea.
Not the app, no, Serco test and trace consists of the teams of people (supposedly) tracing contacts, speaking to people and informing those who need to self isolate etc.Serco doesn’t have anything to do with the app. Not blaming you, as it’s something I’ve read everywhere too.
NI closing bars and restaurants for 4 weeks and schools for 1 week prior to half-term.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-54533643
Do the police not have powers to arrest? It seems like peacefully protesting climate change gets you straight in the slammer so i struggle to understand police inaction here.
These things are going to happen so i can't even get angry at it anymore. Cities need to have plans in place to disperse them quickly.