Chat about Novel Coronavirus - 2019-nCoV - COVID-19

insider whistle blowers claiming that the track and trace program doesn't actually exist and people are getting paid for doing absolutely norhing.

Just been reading that, bonkers.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/may/30/boris-johnsons-test-and-tracing-system-britain-lockdown

Stories I see about Covid Lockdown right now consist of:

1) prominent scientific advisors saying it is a terrible idea to ease lockdown.

2) insider whistle blowers claiming that the track and trace program doesn't actually exist and people are getting paid for doing absolutely norhing.

3) Govt claiming that all is well and that we should all be having garden parties

4) schools reopening next week.

What the fuck?

Good summary.

Massive second peak and then a stricter lockdown?

2) insider whistle blowers claiming that the track and trace program doesn't actually exist and people are getting paid for doing absolutely nothing.

Ah - the scheme run by the tory peer wife of a tory mp, who has been proven to be useless, particularly when involved in technology. I'm sure it'll be fine.

Is the following just a product of my media bubble?

Not just, but in part I'd guess. Having worked as an engineer in a large number of major IT projects over the last 30 years, in health, finance, and media, I'd have the following observations.

insider whistle blowers claiming that the track and trace program doesn't actually exist and people are getting paid for doing absolutely norhing.

On most projects I've been part of, and no matter how much requirements capture, stakeholder consultation and training has been undertaken, (And in this case, there has obviously been very little), there have always been people who would claim that they haven't been listened to, they haven't had enough training, and they are not being utilised in the correct manner. And some of them have had a point and some haven't.

If I was the head of a newsroom, and my journalists couldn't find someone out of the 20+ thousand to furnish those type of quotes, I'd sack them as utterly incompetent. Doesn't say it isn't true, but its a long way from proof.

prominent scientific advisors saying it is a terrible idea to ease lockdown

Likewise when I've been part of a technical team on complex projects feeding into management, I've found myself in both the position, of being the person not being listened to, and being sure that I need to get my views heard to avert "disaster", and also being the person with the ear of management, feeling "undermined" by colleagues. One thing for sure, I find it very difficult to believe that there are no differences on bodies like sage, and that if different policies were followed, there would be no adverse briefing.

Again doesn't say that easing the lockdown isn't a terrible idea...