The Pingdemic

[Chris F]

The said on news this morning that 1 in 50 people in the U.K. have now been pinged. But is this just a town problem? (Or just a hangover from football matches) My daughter how is a student at Loughborough is the only person I know.

How many farmers have been pinged? Not hearing any problems about lack of staff for harvest. But they are saying pumps are running out of fuel and no food on the shelves.

 

[sodbuster]

No app no ping

 

[davidroberts30]

No app no ping

ditto

 

[Courier]

No pubs, no football stadia, no hanging about, no ping (With the app)

 

[Fendt516profi]

I've heard the signal is that strong it can pick up through house walls to neighbours so what if you're in a que of traffic

 

[Nearly]

If we can keep on the right side of BCMS and RPA then this pingy thing should be a doddle

 

[Wolds Beef]

The perfect time to drive people to shop local. For safety and to drive them to farm shops, market stalls ect. Shorten the supply chain to the consumer and we all gain while there is still local butchers, greengrocers and farmers suppling their own outlets.!!
WB
The perfect time for large banners driving people to stay local, shop local, eat local, enjoy local.

 

[topground]

No mention of the NHS app software being hacked maliciously or having a glitch in the system so becoming over sensitive.
What better way to screw employers by having the state system tell employees in droves not to go to work?

 

[Chris F]

No mention of the NHS app software being hacked maliciously or having a glitch in the system so becoming over sensitive.
What better way to screw employers by having the state system tell employees in droves not to go to work?

IF you went anywhere during the football, I'm not sure its the sensitivity of the app - it was masses of people not social distancing at all.

I suppose my point was, I'm not hearing hardly any problems in farming with pings. is this because we all just don't go anywhere or because we don't have the app in the first place or a mixture of both.

I have the APP and haven't been pinged. I don't lead a very exciting life though.

 

[blackisleboy]

I have the APP and haven't been pinged. I don't lead a very exciting life though.

Do any of us on here lead exciting lives......bit of an oxymoron!!!

 

[SilliamWhale]

Just don't get the app and just get on with your life and just use common sense. If we didn't have smartphones, facebook and 24 hour news we wouldn't even know about covid

 

[Boysground]

My daughter was pinged and worked from home for her isolation. She’s a para legal and here work is really hot on the rules. One of the partners dropped her work pc off so she worked in our dining room. Daughter hasn’t been anywhere and worked out the most likely place to have been pinged was getting her 2nd jab.

Talking to my milk processor test and the lack of trucks is becoming a serious problem.

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[tepapa]

Anybody stupid enough to download the app deserves to get pinged.



Tin hat on

 

[Still Farming]

For example around here on a building site:-
H&S chap pinged so off 10 days isolating.
8th day goes down with it.
Another 10 days off.
Goes back 1 day and his wife goes down with it so another 10 days off ????
30 odd days total off ffs.
He is just 1 person????
Stacks same?
Therefore ,yes Gov.may not have another lockdown BUT all be off anyhow isolating?
The Country be knacked again?

 

[Still Farming]

Lots of employers REALLY peed off also as legal excuses for more PAID HOLIDAYS allegedly???

 

[PSQ]

Apart from the rest of the supply chain grinding to a halt I cant see a self employed farmer having to 'work from home' being an issue, other than not being able to pop in to 'The Slaughtered Lamb' for a pint...

 

[Still Farming]

Apart from the rest of the supply chain grinding to a halt I cant see a self employed farmer having to 'work from home' being an issue, other than not being able to pop in to 'The Slaughtered Lamb' for a pint...

Farmers save the country AGAIN!

 

[PSQ]

Farmers save the country AGAIN!

Not really, apart from the current generation of overly gregarious Schoffel wearing 'coke heads' (and theres a lot of them about) most farmers over 35 / 40 are naturally 'self isolating' in nature.
The story of the pandemic for rural areas is pretty much 'business as usual'.

 

[Wolds Beef]

Yes, So get our powers that be to take advantage!! See earlier post!!
WB
@Guy Smith

 

[primmiemoo]

I have a friend from work who's now on Track & Trace. They really do need to contact people who are potentially infected in order to hasten the end of the pandemic. Pinging via the app is helping ~ yes, it's a right pita!! ~ and means that the T&T teams are deployed in the most efficient and cost effective way.

If people don't isolate after a ping, then that's going to beggar up the Test to Work scheme schedule which is on its way, that's obviously desperately needed.

(I know there's something that reads a little contrary in that, but I can't remember the actual words used to describe the aims and objectives for getting things done before winter.)