I was trying to work out whether the severe battery drain I was experiencing because of the NHS contact tracing app was worth it. I can physically watch the battery percentage drop every minute.
After reading that I give up on the app. Seems to make more sense just to lock myself in the house and get groceries delivered.
Yep. pretty much what we’re doing now, not that much has changed for us since the first lockdown. Just doubling down on being more vigilant now.
Our 2 major concerns are the little on in school where it’s pretty clear they are not following the protocols they laid out a few weeks ago. It feels like a matter of time before we see cases in the area and perhaps in the school itself.
The second concern is my better half’s job. Not only does she come into contact with people over a pretty wide geographical area some of the plebs she works with have zero respect for what is going on. One decided to have a holiday in Turkey and now has to quarantine, another decides to spend weekends in a high risk area. The rest seem to have a creative opinion on PPE.
I have two school aged children and no it doesnt look good in that respect. I am just going to assume the chances of myself and my wife contracting it from the kids are going to be quite high. But I still feel I’ll be doing my part staying house bound as much as possible, especially without the app.
Its going to be a long winter.
Scary times sadly. Should have been handled so differently and so much better.
One of the heads in one of my school is now in isolation as her husband has tested positive. As she’s been in the staffroom with other staff eating and chatting…
https://www.bbc.com/news/amp/world-asia-india-54338864?__twitter_impression=true
From the piece.
A team of scientists in India has developed an inexpensive paper-based test for coronavirus that could give fast results similar to a pregnancy test.
The test, named after a famous Indian fictional detective, is based on a gene-editing technology called Crispr. Scientists estimate that the kit - called Feluda - would return results in under an hour and cost 500 rupees (about $6.75; £5.25).
Feluda will be made by a leading Indian conglomerate, Tata, and could be the world’s first paper-based Covid-19 test available in the market.
They named it after one of my favourite detectives. 
Daily Fail reporting that the issue is using outdated Excel software. You couldn’t make it up.
Fucking shambles.
They use Excel? I’ve got some floppy disks left in case they need storage.
Not only that but if you’re going to use excel, who the fuck puts individual instances in columns as opposed to rows?
Could have happened to me. But then I wouldn’t put myself in charge of managing a crucial giant database in the midst of a national/worldwide catastrophy.
Please tell me this is some sort of joke. Who in their right mind uses a spreadsheet as a database?
Not those new fangled 3 1⁄2-inch floppy disks? 
They were using Excel as a database? For fucking real?
This is the kind of thing I get told off for doing when I have to look after 20 contacts.
…or a new worksheet for each month? 
I cant say but it seems that @Kopstar may have another source.
We’ll have to listen to Matt Hancock in parliament today but given his record on the speaking the truth I doubt we’ll learn anything from there.
Truth is though no matter what they were using, losing 16,000 test results is a pretty epic fail. It basically shows that there is no real check or validation of the data taking place. That’s kind of basic stuff.
Turns out some carrier pigeons were shot down by members of the public trying to undermine the government’s efforts.
Is this yet another special from Dido Harding?
Got to give her credit for an impeccable record. Utter disaster at everything she touches.
Ours is not terrible, but I notice it. Of course, the Samsung I have is already pretty bad for using its battery unless I change the settings.
It is working though - a tournament was shut down over the weekend when one of the contestants got an alert that he had been exposed and should go get tested immediately.