Bill Posted July 15, 2021 Author Report Share Posted July 15, 2021 That’s not the case at my local, it’s just a note pad on a table as you walk in with name time and telephone number for all to see. The security aspects don’t particularly worry me, it’s just more convenient to use the app. The smaller place I sometimes visit on a Wednesday, the owner keeps a book but that place is small enough for him to know all his customers. As for telling people to delete the app based on the notion that someone might be profiting from it beggars’ belief and only a fool would do that. Bill 😊 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
asperity Posted July 15, 2021 Report Share Posted July 15, 2021 43 minutes ago, Bill said: As for telling people to delete the app based on the notion that someone might be profiting from it beggars’ belief and only a fool would do that. Who said that? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
asperity Posted July 15, 2021 Report Share Posted July 15, 2021 1 hour ago, Latchford Locks said: Rephrase that asp.. same room as someone with Covid isn't Always a death sentence. I'll go as far as to say that it's seldom a death sentence, but it depends on how healthy your immune system is, and your general health. If you're in poor health, overweight, diabetic, with pulmonary and/or cardiac problems, you would be ill advised to get in close proximity to anybody 🤢. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Observer II Posted July 15, 2021 Report Share Posted July 15, 2021 Not that I've tried, but my cell phone is so old fashioned, I'm not sure it would take this app; even if I knew how to do it. I guess that applies to quite a lot of grumpies, who still live in a non-IT world. 😉 The problem with this app, aside from it being useless; is that it's sending folk directly into isolation and thus off work; when a simple test would suffice. 😷 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
asperity Posted July 15, 2021 Report Share Posted July 15, 2021 520,194 People pinged by the app in the first week of this month alone. In the first week of June it was 47,039. That's an awful lot of people forced into idleness for the crime of being close to someone who may, or may not, have the virus. Crass stupidity. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Confused52 Posted July 15, 2021 Report Share Posted July 15, 2021 9 hours ago, asperity said: Who said that? " A lot of people have made a lot of money in this "pandemic" out of not fit for purpose ideas like this app. Delete it, just being in the same room as someone with Covid isn't a death sentence." Er, YOU did. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
asperity Posted July 15, 2021 Report Share Posted July 15, 2021 10 hours ago, asperity said: As for telling people to delete the app based on the notion that someone might be profiting from it beggars’ belief and only a fool would do that. 1 hour ago, Confused52 said: A lot of people have made a lot of money in this "pandemic" out of not fit for purpose ideas like this app. Delete it, just being in the same room as someone with Covid isn't a death sentence." Er, YOU did. Compare and contrast. A lot of people HAVE made a lot of money in this "pandemic out of ideas LIKE this app. The advice to delete it is in my second sentence which states the fact that just being in the same room as someone with Covid isn't a death sentence. To mix the two sentences together and claim they mean something else "beggars belief and only a fool would do that" to steal an expression. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Confused52 Posted July 15, 2021 Report Share Posted July 15, 2021 58 minutes ago, asperity said: Compare and contrast. A lot of people HAVE made a lot of money in this "pandemic out of ideas LIKE this app. The advice to delete it is in my second sentence which states the fact that just being in the same room as someone with Covid isn't a death sentence. To mix the two sentences together and claim they mean something else "beggars belief and only a fool would do that" to steal an expression. Oh dear, the unit of language conveying an idea is normally more than a single sentence. The first sentence defines the idea being conveyed. Read Paragraphs & Topic Sentences: Writing Guides: Writing Tutorial Services: Indiana University Bloomington and you will understand how others read and understand what you write. That you seek to define it another way is the cause of much misunderstanding. What you seek to do on this occasion could have been easily expressed by put each sentence in a different paragraph thus making them clearly different and independent ideas. Don't complain that it is my fault that I read like the rest of the world does it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
asperity Posted July 16, 2021 Report Share Posted July 16, 2021 Oh dear, fancy being able to understand what someone has written better than the person that wrote it. Pathetic waste of your time Googling for references to try to justify your inability to understand simple English. Confused by name, confusing by nature 🤣🤣 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Evil Sid Posted July 16, 2021 Report Share Posted July 16, 2021 I am reminded of the benny hill sketch where the actress has the line "what's that in the road ahead" but reads it as " what's that in the road, a head?". enter irate director with script. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Observer II Posted July 16, 2021 Report Share Posted July 16, 2021 Well, Gov covid strategy appears to be looking more like a Benny Hill sketch, as they speed into a car crash. 😷 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davy51 Posted July 16, 2021 Report Share Posted July 16, 2021 Mentioned on the one o'clock news that Silverstone needs & has been allowed to have 140,000 spectators to be viable . Another case of different rules for different businesses. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
asperity Posted July 16, 2021 Report Share Posted July 16, 2021 I should imagine that 140000 at Silverstone will be spaced much further apart than the 60000 at Wembley or the crowds at Wimbledon were. Anyway Obs needs these events to be full so that he can see if his spikes occur as predicted. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Observer II Posted July 16, 2021 Report Share Posted July 16, 2021 It's already happening - BoJo has taken over the torch from Bolsonaro ! 😷 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Confused52 Posted July 16, 2021 Report Share Posted July 16, 2021 11 hours ago, asperity said: Oh dear, fancy being able to understand what someone has written better than the person that wrote it. Pathetic waste of your time Googling for references to try to justify your inability to understand simple English. Confused by name, confusing by nature 🤣🤣 Well your problem is that writing is meant to convey your meaning to others. If it fails to do so because what is says can only be understood properly by the author then it is pointless. I did not say that I understood what you wrote better than you did. I said that, based on ( and indeed evidenced by) your subsequent protestation about being misunderstood, you had not written down what you intended to convey. You do it very often and complain that others are wrongly accusing you of this or that. I can indeed understand simple English; when are you going to start writing it instead of tortured sentences that you claim mean anything other that what the average person would take from them. I think you do it on purpose. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
asperity Posted July 16, 2021 Report Share Posted July 16, 2021 If you can't understand what I write (apparently on a regular basis) I suggest you don't bother reading any of my posts. It's no skin off my nose, although I think that in reality you just like to think you're point scoring. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Confused52 Posted July 16, 2021 Report Share Posted July 16, 2021 39 minutes ago, asperity said: If you can't understand what I write (apparently on a regular basis) I suggest you don't bother reading any of my posts. It's no skin off my nose, although I think that in reality you just like to think you're point scoring. It almost certainly isn't just me that you give trouble to. Points over you are not really worth scoring, I just wanted to help stop some of the pointless arguments, they put people off. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
asperity Posted July 17, 2021 Report Share Posted July 17, 2021 Oh I see! You are now the self-appointed adjudicator of which posts are worthy of consideration on this forum Confused52, congratulations 🤣. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
asperity Posted July 17, 2021 Report Share Posted July 17, 2021 In fact, sod it. Life's too short to be bothered with this nonsense. I won't darken this forum's hallowed ground again. Goodbye. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davy51 Posted July 17, 2021 Report Share Posted July 17, 2021 8 hours ago, asperity said: In fact, sod it. Life's too short to be bothered with this nonsense. I won't darken this forum's hallowed ground again. Goodbye. Come on Asp ,there's nothing wrong with what you put on here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Observer II Posted July 18, 2021 Report Share Posted July 18, 2021 He'll be back before the next lock down ! 😉 😷 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill Posted July 19, 2021 Author Report Share Posted July 19, 2021 I read this on Facebook this morning and thought I’d share it here as it pretty well sums up my own feelings on the situation. Quote I have been wearing a mask since we were first asked to do so. I’m not sure why being considerate to others for the common good is now being mocked by some who are calling it “living in fear”, but it needs to stop!!!... When I wear a mask over my nose and mouth in public and in the stores/supermarkets/pharmacies etc - I want you to know the following: I'm educated enough to know that I could be asymptomatic and still give you the virus. I don't "live in fear" of the virus; I just want to be part of the solution, not the problem. I don't feel like the "government controls me". I feel like I'm an adult contributing to the security in our society. If we could all live with the consideration of others in mind, the whole world would be a much better place. Wearing a mask doesn't make me weak, scared, stupid or even "controlled". It makes me caring and responsible. Bill 😊 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Evil Sid Posted July 19, 2021 Report Share Posted July 19, 2021 sense and well put. it is a pity our leaders do not lead by example. Boris "if you get pinged by the app you must self isolate and get tested." Boris when pinged by the app "well it just a suggestion and doesn't apply to me as i made the rules up" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Observer II Posted July 19, 2021 Report Share Posted July 19, 2021 Have to laugh - all those kids in the night spot counting down the time to "freedom day" - clearly prior to midnight they were all breaking the law - a total joke. 😷 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davy51 Posted July 19, 2021 Report Share Posted July 19, 2021 A newspaper article at the weekend was suggesting that the over sensitive app could even ping neighbours in adjoining properties thus distorting the need to isolate. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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