RAF Leeming Getting Involved

Personnel at Leeming asked to trial a new C19 app that might be out by Mid May (20)!

The NHS is testing its forthcoming Covid-19 contact-tracing app at a Royal Air Force base in North Yorkshire.

It works by using Bluetooth signals to log when smartphone owners are close to each other - so if someone develops Covid-19 symptoms, an alert can be sent to other users they may have infected.

I wonder if it can detect that you've passed another phone in your cars so then not in any danger?

Story HERE

 

[Barch]

All relying on people with a phone with the app installed.

What about those without the app or without a phone and those that work in areas where phones are prohibited ?

 

[4everAD]

All relying on people trusting their government not to use the opportunity to spy on people of interest or just your communal garden Joe?

 

[Tin basher]

I wonder if it can detect that you've passed another phone in your cars so then not in any danger?

Some phone apps such as those that can record your daily quota of steps and distance can sense when you are moving at a greater speed than is possible when walking/running so don't record those distances. I'm no geek but it seems eminently plausible that his one can do the same.

 

[hobbes]

So the Mighty 90 are involved, good to see.

No doubt there will be the usual avalanche of commendations later in the year (but only if they are part of the Dark Lord's Inner Circle).

 

[Barch]

Who in their right mind is going to give permission to all and sundry to connect to their phone's Bluetooth ?

 

[StickyFingers]

Who in their right mind is going to give permission to all and sundry to connect to their phone's Bluetooth ?

Exactly:

"Guys we need you to install this app on your phone"

"My personal phone? Nah"

 

[ninjarabbi]

I'd like to see them try it on my 11 year old Motorola Razr, it runs on steam.

 

[Quagmire]

Who in their right mind is going to give permission to all and sundry to connect to their phone's Bluetooth ?

Exactly:

"Guys we need you to install this app on your phone"

"My personal phone? Nah"

Government - "There is a chance we could end the lockdown early with a phone app that has been developed"
Chimps on here - "No thanks..."

 

[Barch]

Government - "There is a chance we could end the lockdown early with a phone app that has been developed"
Chimps on here - "No thanks..."

You will have to explain how a phone app could end the lockdown early.

 

[Barch]

Does he? There is plenty of info out there that explains the logic behind it.

It will tell people when they have been in an 'at risk location' and nothing more. It won't prevent the virus moving from person to person.

 

[Barch]

Fucking case closed then. Lets bin it off. I didn't realise you were the expert in the field.

From what I've read there is a bit more to it than that, contact tracing which can be used to stop breakouts.

If it is such a good tool why is it restricted to a few hundred people in a restricted area ?