Cv19 Tracking App
Discussion
https://covid.joinzoe.com/
Developed by Kings College Hospital. It’s legitimate.
It’s an app that collects data from you about your cv19 symptoms (also general health and location). It’s a great way for researchers to pull together a picture of who has it, and where, quickly.
Please download and use it. At present it doesn’t seem to cater for someone who has had the symptoms but doesn’t have them now (and who’s still alive) - that may change.
Again: please use it. Tracking the spread of this is key.
Developed by Kings College Hospital. It’s legitimate.
It’s an app that collects data from you about your cv19 symptoms (also general health and location). It’s a great way for researchers to pull together a picture of who has it, and where, quickly.
Please download and use it. At present it doesn’t seem to cater for someone who has had the symptoms but doesn’t have them now (and who’s still alive) - that may change.
Again: please use it. Tracking the spread of this is key.
Edited by anonymous-user on Tuesday 24th March 23:14
Roofless Toothless said:
It's not a life style choice. I have been deaf in both ears for over 35 years. The only way I can use a mobile phone is to put it on loudspeaker and broadcast my conversation over a distance of several blocks.
So I have never bothered.
Phone calls probably account for around 4-5% of the usage of my mobile phone.So I have never bothered.
The rest is apps, transport tickets, ID cards, contactless wallet, payment methods, Ebay/amazon, messages, emails, photos, social media, forums, internet browsing, maps, directions, news, information, wikipedia, games, youtube...
Even if I was deaf I couldn't live without one.
I'm extremely surprised you don't have a phone even if you cannot use it for phone calls. I would have thought that messages would be the easiest way for a deaf person to communicate with friends, family and colleagues?
Roofless Toothless said:
My Lord, I did post an explanation on a similar thread, but as you ask, I will try to clarify it again.
I am 71, retired from the NHS for over 11 years now. On reaching pensionable age, I developed cancer, which resulted in several operations, the last of which was (rightly) described to me as life changing. I will spare you the details.
As a result, I am now happy to live a quiet home based life, and I am fortunate to have provided myself with an array of books and hobbies here indoors and in my garden that occupy my time pleasurably. Travel is almost exclusively local. I enjoy my life, my family, and I am grateful for it and wish for no more.
I fully appreciate what ingenious devices smart phones are, and how much a young, fit working person can get out of one. But there is nothing in the way I live that demands one. So I haven't bought one.
On the other thread, somebody was kindly suggesting that a person such as myself was a 'luddite' or a 'troglodyte'. But this is not true. For the record I was using computer techniques from the early 1970s onwards in science, and in fact, I wrote the first programmes ever to be used in geophysical analysis at UCL. That was the days of punch cards!
I bought my own kids the first home computers, and I have used a PC at home ever since. I also have an iPad. This is completely sufficient for me to get my dose of social media, and research on topics that interest me, like local history. I just don't have any need to do this outside of the home.
A couple of birthdays ago I happened to mention that I was starting to feel a bit exposed when out driving on my own, in case I had a breakdown or an accident, as it seems to be taken for granted now that a driver will be able to make a call. My son bought me a simple PAYG phone, that does little more than make a call. I think I have used it about three times since, simply to ring my home number to check it was still working!
I have no reason to buy an expensive piece of kit to do things I have no need for. That doesn't seem unreasonable to me, yet I have noticed that some younger people, with busy jobs and busy lives, can't seem to get this, and think I am being deliberately obtuse in not aspiring to their 'always connected' life style. It frustrates me that people design things like the Ap in question, or car parking payment systems, that just assumes everybody owns a smartphone.
I hope this clarifies the matter. But then, you will only have to put up with old duffers like me a little while longer.
I sincerely hope ‘old duffers’ like you remain with us for a long time to come!I am 71, retired from the NHS for over 11 years now. On reaching pensionable age, I developed cancer, which resulted in several operations, the last of which was (rightly) described to me as life changing. I will spare you the details.
As a result, I am now happy to live a quiet home based life, and I am fortunate to have provided myself with an array of books and hobbies here indoors and in my garden that occupy my time pleasurably. Travel is almost exclusively local. I enjoy my life, my family, and I am grateful for it and wish for no more.
I fully appreciate what ingenious devices smart phones are, and how much a young, fit working person can get out of one. But there is nothing in the way I live that demands one. So I haven't bought one.
On the other thread, somebody was kindly suggesting that a person such as myself was a 'luddite' or a 'troglodyte'. But this is not true. For the record I was using computer techniques from the early 1970s onwards in science, and in fact, I wrote the first programmes ever to be used in geophysical analysis at UCL. That was the days of punch cards!
I bought my own kids the first home computers, and I have used a PC at home ever since. I also have an iPad. This is completely sufficient for me to get my dose of social media, and research on topics that interest me, like local history. I just don't have any need to do this outside of the home.
A couple of birthdays ago I happened to mention that I was starting to feel a bit exposed when out driving on my own, in case I had a breakdown or an accident, as it seems to be taken for granted now that a driver will be able to make a call. My son bought me a simple PAYG phone, that does little more than make a call. I think I have used it about three times since, simply to ring my home number to check it was still working!
I have no reason to buy an expensive piece of kit to do things I have no need for. That doesn't seem unreasonable to me, yet I have noticed that some younger people, with busy jobs and busy lives, can't seem to get this, and think I am being deliberately obtuse in not aspiring to their 'always connected' life style. It frustrates me that people design things like the Ap in question, or car parking payment systems, that just assumes everybody owns a smartphone.
I hope this clarifies the matter. But then, you will only have to put up with old duffers like me a little while longer.
All of that makes sense now you have explained it, and I absolutely wish you and your family the very best.
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