Fluctuation0161
Full Member
Totally agree.@Brwned
Mate, we’ve had 10 months.
You’ve accused me of shouting at a wall.
I fully expect a system that can scale. Ours doesn’t work. Let alone scale.
Yes some systems can’t meet capacity. Yes there will be resistance to adoption. Yes there will be mistakes.
But Our government tells everyone we have a world leading test, track and trace service. That we have the capacity to test 350,000 a day.
The reality is that Our testing system is on its knees at 5 figure outputs. Has Throttled access points. It’s late. Costs more than most of Europe’s system COMBINED. It’s an abject failure.
Pointing out small countries inability to scale is foolhardy.
My brother in law lives in Baden-Wuttenburg and has a lot of friends in Bavaria. Their lived experience in Germany is night and day from us
Some regions have had some issues. But one regions issues don’t feck up the whole country because they’re decentralised.
You keep suggesting that other countries contract tracing systems don’t work. You’re using stats like number of contacts contacted. You’re missing out the key qualifier of time. Every day counts. Numbers get big so damn quick.
25% of test results inside 24 hours, coupled with an ill-functioning app and poor contact tracing.
vs
75% of test results inside 24 hours, coupled to a functioning app and functioning contact tracing.
Those Two scenarios lead to wildly different outcomes.
We are still trumpeting number of tests. Why? Raise the threshold to get a test in order to lower the burden on labs, in order to return results faster. In order to start contact tracing sooner.
The government is still talking about getting to half a million tests a day. There’s no fecking point in that. They chase headlines. We can’t process that level of test output. If we manage to get to that number we can’t run a successful contact tracing system.
It’s a public health crisis, you’re often borrowing from Peter to pay Paul. But why do we as a country not have the humility to just copy off the brightest kids in class. You know half the cabinet has done that for their whole life.
You and I aren’t really at odds. I just object to any kind of defence of £12 Billion resulting in this. Better performing countries are yet to push through £1 Billion in expenditure.
Ach, burn it all down.
I cant understand how anyone is blaming the concept of test and trace instead of the UK's terrible handling of this pandemic. It is beyond logic.