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So for this #TestTrackAndTrace thing, you have to name people who you've stood within 2m of for 15mins or longer over the past 2 days.
How can this be fulfilled by people on public transport, or at work in a customer facing role, who will not know who they have stood or sat by?
How can this be fulfilled by people on public transport, or at work in a customer facing role, who will not know who they have stood or sat by?
Also, how many layers of contacts are they tracing? Surely every person contacted needs to then pass on the details of everyone THEY’VE been in contact with, and so on? How does it work if you only alert those in the first “circle”, who could themselves have passed it wider?
If you are asked to self isolate, what protections and provisions will be given to you? Many workplaces will not look favourably on employees needing to take two weeks off, especially in multiple instances. Many workers will not be paid for their time in isolation.
Many will also face being let go if they are asked to isolate over and over again, missing weeks and weeks. How can you expect people to choose to do the right thing, when the threat of losing their wages, shelter, food and job security is held over their heads?
Why are people in the same household not required to isolate alongside the person who gets the call? It makes no sense to be mingling with the public if you live with someone who's been told to stop mingling with the public. The virus won't stay inside with them if you don’t.
How can we trust that enough tests will be a) sent out and b) processed? There is little track record in achieving anywhere near the number of complete tests we need, on a scale necessary to make this work.
We also can't know the true rate of infection or number of people infected at any time - many do not report symptoms, do not suffer them severely enough to notice, or are completely asymptomatic. Any of these people could pass the virus on to someone who did then suffer severely.
How can you appeal to people’s civic duty and ask them to take an action and make a sacrifice that a government adviser himself was not willing to do or make - especially when that self-same government adviser did not see a single consequence or punishment for their rebellion?
