Police to get test and trace data.

[Workingman]

It is rumoured that only about 20% of those who have been traced are self-isolating after being in contact with someone who has tested positive. That comes on top of the news that last week only 62.6% of suspects were traced.

There are stories that some of those testing positive are giving out false details to try to protect their friends and also that those trying to be trace contacted are not answering their phones or are deleting emails as spam.

It is a shocking situation, but don't the police have enough to do?

I am all for punishing those who break the rules (temporary laws) but maybe, just maybe, the punishments are set too high? £1,000 for a first offence rising to £10,000 would put many people in dire straits and unable to pay. They also get a criminal record. It is not really any wonder that ever so many want to stay under the radar.

[cromwell]

Also some of the people required to leave their contact details with a bar etc have been signing in as M. Mouse, A. Hitler etc.
And I agree, the police have more than enough to do atm.

[cruiser2]

I am not on the radar as I do not have an app.
What happens if you meet someone in a shop or supermarket who has C19?.
How do you know you may have it if you are not haing a test. We have not tried to get one or offered on.
Case of the left hand doesn't know whatthe right hand is doing.
Shold keep every MP in the houses of Parliament until there are no cases of C19 in the UK.

[TheOstrich]

I saw this report about the police, and to be honest, I think the whole control thing is becoming more sinister by the day. The prospect of being chased / hounded / fined by the police is more than enough to cause many folk not to co-operate with T&T, and I don't blame them. My sympathies are more with them than the police and the Government. It's a huge and unresolved argument whether T&T is of any use at all, because it's not a cure for the virus and by definition it's always running behind the infection.

My basic credo is "keep your head below the parapet", or as WM succinctly put it, stay under the radar. So I won't sign into T&T if I can possibly avoid it. If I can't avoid it (i.e. the library, the surgery) then I won't engage with them unless it's really, really necessary. I certainly wouldn't "volunteer" to take a Covid test, and I haven't downloaded the NHS App anyway.

If I have the misfortune to get the Covid virus, either I'll be asymptomatic in which case I won't know anyway, or I'll display the classic symptoms in which case there's no need to get tested and I know to isolate. I'm not going to make a big deal about it or go running to the authorities unless it's a last resort.

Everyone will have their own approach to it, diff'rent strokes and all that.

[Suff]

I was never going to put anyone's app on my phone, for any country. They made a BIG play about how these data would be anonymous. Now this "anonymous" data set is being given to the police.

It was not very difficult to work that one out in advance. It was only ever going to be anonymous so long as the good little boys and girls did as they were told.

Seeing as it never had any hope at all of stopping this virus, I just ignored all news on it and ditched the text message imploring me to download it.

[Workingman]

Same here.