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Seeing we have been in Lockdown since the 23rd March its took over 6 weeks for your husband to be notified by the NHS.

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It’ll be interesting if that is correct. I’m not convinced about the schools. But would happy if it is right.

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According to the Centre of Policy Studies costs due to Coronavirus borrowing could hit £300bn .

The following link also includes a breakdown of the Coronavirus costs up to 20/04/2020


https://www.cps.org.uk/media/press-r...onavirus-rise/

Apologies if the CPS is not regarded as a legitimate source of information.

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Perfectly legitimate as far as I'm concerned, but the fact that they run a series of events called the Margaret Thatcher Conference will probably blow a few gaskets on this forum. :rofl:

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They were..

When he was asked, the guy from the NHS (Professor Chris Witty IIRC) said that the government app would only store an identifier on the device. If the user reported symptoms later, this would then upload the device id and other relevant data to an NHS server, thus allowing the NHS to contact other potential victims, and track the infection.

A few slight problems with this approach though:

1. We don't know will have access to the data. Cummings seems to be involved, so I feel that whoever has access, there is a good chance it will be used for things other than what we have been told. The GDPR likely includes a whole load of conditions that mean they won't provide protection for us. I haven't read the GDPR, but both previous Data Protection Acts included a whole load of exclusions that prevented them being used against the Government.
2. iOS (in particular, don't know about Android) imposes heavy restrictions on what can be done with Bluetooth by any app running in the background.
3. It's an app. The tracing will only be done by people who both download the app and leave it running. Neither are guaranteed. I'm terrible at remembering to leave things running. Probably comes from working with computers with nowhere near enough resources to leave everything running. As I understand it, using the API, a lot of the actual donkey work (looking for other devices, and sending notifications) is done by the OS, so will happen whether the app is running or not.

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What would be a good name for someone who just copies and pastes someone else's posts without their own comment or interpretation?

Well you never know ;)

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Depends on your definition of "legitimate" I suppose. Looking at https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Centre_for_Policy_Studies is quite interesting:

Certainly an organisation with a political bias. Worth bearing in mind when reading its articles ..

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Think tanks always have a political leaning. Individuals always have a political leaning. There's nothing wrong with that, and to be honest the points of view that concern me are the ones coming from those who deny they have a bias. If they're that lacking in self awareness then their ability to analyse anything external to themselves must be similarly suspect.

CPS is of the centre right, The Fabian Society, to take a random example, is of the centre left. Both have a legitimate voice in the city square of debate.

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Will we have access to any EU funding to help with Covid-19 seeing as we are still paying in at this point in time?

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No.

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Do you have any examples?

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I think they have been a tad busy..anyway his consultant has been doing phone appointments and I've made sure that he's been in isolation for my own peace of mind.

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Something worth noting for us Taffs....(excuse the crap spelling)

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Yeh crap spelling but isn't it the Welsh Assembly that is responsible?
That said it makes sense that the UK as a whole comes out of lockdown together.

Make it a political thing though if you want, DILLIGAF!

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Don’t take his name in vain.

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l certainly agree with you on that.