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Coronavirus - how is it/has it affected you?

RichA said:
I'm not seeing that. The NHS COVID-19 iPhone app or a different one?
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Not the NHS COVID app at you use to check in to venues, the other one which has all your medical records on and where you can book appointments and repeat prescriptions. It also has a QR code with your vaccinatio history which seems to be tailor made for a sort of check-in passport.
 
RichA said:
I'm not seeing that. The NHS COVID-19 iPhone app or a different one?
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Proper NHS app not the track and trace covid one .

You need to sign up and get permission etc , I had to do photo of my face and passport to be verified for access
 
pauljames87 said:
Proper NHS app not the track and trace covid one .

You need to sign up and get permission etc , I had to do photo of my face and passport to be verified for access
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Ah. One of those services that needs to be authorised by your GP surgery, who I've been asking for online registration details from for 3 years now.
 
RichA said:
Ah. One of those services that needs to be authorised by your GP surgery, who I've been asking for online registration details from for 3 years now.
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Yes and no. You don't need the gp part to use the NHS app for covid

You won't have medical history or prescription ordering tho

I don't have it my Dr hasn't authorised

But I can see covid
 
Hobbit said:
On the issue of the Cygnus pandemic exercise, which someone believes was totally ignored…there’s a shock.

There was plenty of detail in the previous COVID thread about elements of the recommendations being implemented. Also some elements that were, sadly, ignored. And some elements that were already in place. For example, PPE & visors/glasses. Changes were decided upon and (fragmented) implementation had started ——- this issue was in the previous thread, including supporting links.

It was beaten to death in the last thread, and I can’t be ‘arrise arguing about it again but to say it was totally ignored is, at best, ignorant.
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I think you are talking to me. Ignorant, eh? If I had said that about someone here, there would be a queue to pile in to call me arrogant and condescending. Hypocritical, no?

Your bland dismissal, "there were some elements that were, sadly, ignored" can be restated as "despite clear warnings and with time to prepare, the Govt abjectly failed to properly prepare because it was a time of austerity and there were short-term issues of greater political importance". That is a view that has been expressed even by some Tory backbenchers and former Ministers. The proof that they failed to heed the warnings was clear with the pressures on ICU beds and ventilators, both flagged in the exercise and nothing done, ICU beds were even reduced in number. Ironically, Germany scaled up ICU capacity after discussions with the UK after Cygnus. As for PPE, much of it was expired and they had to redate it and scramble for more from all over the world.

The Torygraph, former employer of Boris Johnson, has a piece on it. But what do they know? They are probably ignorant too.

Some ignorant commentary
 
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Ethan said:
I think you are talking to me. Ignorant, eh? If I had said that about someone here, there would be a queue to pile in to call me arrogant and condescending. Hypocritical, no?

Your bland dismissal, "there were some elements that were, sadly, ignored" can be restated as "despite clear warnings and with time to prepare, the Govt abjectly failed to properly prepare because it was a time of austerity and there were short-term issues of greater political importance". That is a view that has been expressed even by some Tory backbenchers and former Ministers. The proof that they failed to heed the warnings was clear with the pressures on ICU beds and ventilators, both flagged in the exercise and nothing done, ICU beds were even reduced in number. Ironically, Germany scaled up ICU capacity after discussions with the UK after Cygnus. As for PPE, much of it was expired and they had to relate it and scramble for more from al over the world.

The Torygraph, former employer of Boris Johnson, has a piece on it. But what do they know? They are probably ignorant too.

Some ignorant commentary[/QUOTE

Thread was started to allow posters to show how they, as individuals, are being impacted.

This stuff will get the thread closed.
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Typical, you have a go at me again. Did I miss your rebuke to hobbit, to whom I was responding?

Also, you started the thread but you have no right to dictate what aspects people discuss.
 
pauldj42 said:
Or instead of repeating it, use the report button, tell the mods your issue and let them decide.(y)
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Go right ahead. If there is a new rule that the thread starter is the content censor, this forum is doomed. In this case, the OP seems to be rather selective in the people whose content he criticises.
 
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Ethan said:
Go right ahead. If there is a new rule that the thread starter is the content censor, this forum is doomed. The OP seems to be rather selective in the people whose content he criticises.
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Don’t start on me, I don’t have an issue with your post and agree with your reply to drdel.

I just find it odd people reposting a post they aren’t happy with.

The report button is there for a reason.
 
RichA said:
Downloaded it and logged in with the details used to book my jab. It's got all my stuff: GP history, prescriptions, COVID passport.
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Annoyingly my Dr hasn't clicked the history stuff but that's ok. What matters is the covid passport if they bring in for normal stuff
 
pauldj42 said:
Germany haven’t banned UK travellers, they must quarantine on arrival for 2 weeks!
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Not ALL UK travellers - simply the vast majority!
'German citizens and residents, plus people with an exceptional reason, can still enter - but face a two-week quarantine'
 
Foxholer said:
Not ALL UK travellers - simply the vast majority!
'German citizens and residents, plus people with an exceptional reason, can still enter - but face a two-week quarantine'
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Which UK travellers won’t face 2 weeks in quarantine?
 
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