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Looks like T+T is not making first base if it cannot persuade people to isolate as a result;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/feb/16/contact-tracing-alone-has-little-impact-on-curbing-covid-spread-report-findsNow I would have thought giving financial support to those needing to isolate would be the best way to spend money on making the system effective.To date Sunak has not given priority to this...anyone know why not?
Quote from: albie on February 17, 2021, 04:34:03 pmLooks like T+T is not making first base if it cannot persuade people to isolate as a result;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/feb/16/contact-tracing-alone-has-little-impact-on-curbing-covid-spread-report-findsNow I would have thought giving financial support to those needing to isolate would be the best way to spend money on making the system effective.To date Sunak has not given priority to this...anyone know why not?It's very difficult to do how would you make it effective?1. It assumes People don't isolate for financial reasons.2. How do you set the financial figure that stops point 1 if finances are an issue?3. How do you prevent abuse or prevent "oh I've got symptoms I'm isolating and paid for it" ie liars.
Quote from: big fat yorkshire pudding on February 18, 2021, 05:01:55 pmQuote from: albie on February 17, 2021, 04:34:03 pmLooks like T+T is not making first base if it cannot persuade people to isolate as a result;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/feb/16/contact-tracing-alone-has-little-impact-on-curbing-covid-spread-report-findsNow I would have thought giving financial support to those needing to isolate would be the best way to spend money on making the system effective.To date Sunak has not given priority to this...anyone know why not?It's very difficult to do how would you make it effective?1. It assumes People don't isolate for financial reasons.2. How do you set the financial figure that stops point 1 if finances are an issue?3. How do you prevent abuse or prevent "oh I've got symptoms I'm isolating and paid for it" ie liars.How do they do it elsewhere? It doesn't seem a problem in a lot of other countries.We have one of the lowest, by a long way, sickness benefits rates in Europe. Is it then a coincidence we have one of the highest covid mortality rates?
Quote from: albie on February 17, 2021, 04:34:03 pmLooks like T+T is not making first base if it cannot persuade people to isolate as a result;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/feb/16/contact-tracing-alone-has-little-impact-on-curbing-covid-spread-report-findsNow I would have thought giving financial support to those needing to isolate would be the best way to spend money on making the system effective.To date Sunak has not given priority to this...anyone know why not?It's very difficult to do how would you make it effective?1. It assumes People don't isolate for financial reasons.2. How do you set the financial figure that stops point 1 if finances are an issue?3. How do you prevent abuse or prevent "oh I've got symptoms I'm isolating and paid for it" ie liars.
Pudding,Not sure who you think will abuse the system.....after all, the only people eligible would be those who have a positive test first!Anyway, the best summary is the 4 tweets from Prof Reicher here;https://twitter.com/ReicherStephen/status/1362068812464590850Spending £22bn on testing then not doing the support work is missing the point.There is no evidence that Dido has actually understood WHY T+T was set up in the first place!
Everyone has seen the cost of not doing it, billions and thousnds of lives and illness and it should have been done from the get go, it's a shame the pm is a narcissistic liar. Look back at the beginnings where the options were to go hard or go to water. One can see as bst points out a hard lockdown is producing a halving approx ea 14 days and a fully functioning T&T + provision to enable all those with covid and close contacts to isolate would have had this beat and maybe even not allowed it the chance to evolve. I think medical staff would have much preferred the sensible option than a weekly round of applause.
Only just realised that the hopeless Sunak has given a further £15 billion to this failing system in the budget last week;https://www.theregister.com/2021/03/10/pac_test_and_trace/Oh my days!
£550 Hound. It's almost equivalent to the entire Defence budget.
Easy mistake to make. My apologies. Been a busy few days.