Do you know what, though. My experience of them was really good first call. Really pleasant and capable. Reminded me I need to isolate. Caring tone. Second call similar. By the third, fourth and fifth call it was getting a bit tiresome. Then by the sixth, seventh, eighth and ninth call in under a week reminding me that I wasn’t allowed to go out it was starting to get really annoying. I got to the point where I just started saying ‘I know my responsibilities and I know the law. Please leave me alone now’
And then the cherry on top was that when it turned out that we didn’t have Corona, and it was a lab error, not a fucking dickie bird. Found an email in my junk folder. I had the call them to confirm what was going on.
Just my experience was that they incessantly pestered the fuck out of me and basically assumed I was taking the piss with the isolation (which may actually be necessary given some people’s behaviour). I had about 15 calls in about 9 days.
But when I needed to be told that the positive result was an error and we didn’t need to isolate, then just fired off and email that ended up in my junk mail and I found two days after it arrived. 15 calls reminding me to isolate, not one telling me I didn’t need to.
I feel for the people who get abuse, but the system is a shambles.
Be happy that you have so much care dedicated to you and your family. We had to go into quarantine a few weeks ago when my daughter tested positive at the height of new infections in our neck of the woods.
She was told that we’d get a call with instructions, and clear instructions until when we had to stay in quarantine. So, we put ourselves into quarantine for whatever time necessary. No call, no letter. So, we did the maths ourselves, and after ten days, we started to go out again, as my daughter hadn’t had any symptoms anymore for a few days. Still no call, no letter.
Finally, we got that letter roughly a week after we had stopped the quarantine, with the instruction that we could leave quarantine… a week ago. Probably needless to say that since then, my respect for our administration has plummeted quite a fair bit!
How would you go about contacting people then, given there are 20,000 positives tests per day? Possibly multiply by 10 to get contacts. That’s 200,000 per day.
No doubt a lot of contacts are pre warned so expecting a call and decided they won’t answer. I can’t think of a tracing service that would work better. In any case I only answer my phone if I recognise the number so everything else goes to voicemail.
Probably @Mascot got lots of calls because they knew he would answer and they could report a successful contact
Do you believe that 15 calls in 9 days is necessary?
How does 15 calls in 9 days make this efficient? (as you pointed out there’s probably a lot of calls to make).
Btw I replied to a post that stated business which was also in my reply this is being run like one of those businesses that harass you. In the end you just say ‘fuck you’. It’s not efficient, not friendly and a complete waste of time to do this. They need to get a grip!
Yes, Mascot’s experience with it sounds ridiculous but a large part of why it is failing is down to people ignoring or not wanting to take the calls. If I tested positive I would be calling or contacting everyone of my contacts anyway as would most people I think. They would then have to make a decision what to do about it.
As an aside…I heard from a colleague last week that his daughter had been sent home from school because the school had been tipped off that the teaching assistant’s husband had tested positive. When tackled she said she thought it was ok to come into work as she felt fine.
Oh goodie we are in agreement.
I mean someone who’s in starbucks isn’t going to change just because you ring them 2 or 3 times a day. In fact I reckon they would become even worst.
Per 100,00 people of course, what a silly question. My sources are always from the Internet, John Hopkins Uni, Worldometer, Statista etc. As I am sure you know there are many reputable sources but the amount of information can be mind boggling.
I am fed up with this now and take no joy from the fact the UK is doing so badly, my family are there and before my wife was diagnosed with Stage 4 lung cancer we had thought of maybe returning one day. Life here in Spain has not been to difficult through the virus although I imagine people in Barcelona and Madrid may feel differently.
I see today there is a new strain of CV discovered. Hopefully the vaccine will handle that one o.k. as well and life can get back to something like it was before. Obviously that will be difficult in the UK with Brexit to contend with as well but we can only hope.
Good luck to everyone who reads this ( that will be 2 or 3 maybe ) I sincerely hope you all manage to dodge Covid.
) I sincerely hope you all manage to dodge Covid.