I understand that it's about identity validation @strelitzia32, but the effect of using the system results in those without a credit history not getting prompt access to the tests. There may well be alternatives ... are the people affected the most well-equipped to navigate their way to those alternatives?
Members of my family live in a very multi-cultural area where a large proportion of the residents speak extremely limited English and normally have little engagement with the authorities and services ... when information about lockdowns, social distancing, self isolation etc is disseminated these people are being left out ... at the moment they are getting their information from their part-time pastor who speaks some Russian as well as his native language ... he gets his information from my son who also speaks some Russian and translates the newspaper articles to the pastor who then goes to his congregation's homes and tries to explain it.
I'm not in any way a conspiracy theorist ... but I am frustrated by the seemingly amateur and shortsighted way the governmental agencies etc appear to be these things up.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
@Dovefromabove the identity validation is only required for the online registration. It's not a credit check at all. If anyone has trouble with it, just call the 119 phone number instead. It's very simple to get a test. This really is a non-issue.
I understate the language issue, but that's an ability to engage with any information if you can't speak the language. Identity validation is a critical component to the provision of the overall system, not least because malicious actors could abuse or take down an online system for their own purposes.
The logistics of the entire program and the speed it was put in place, regardless of its perceived efficacy, is nothing short of incredible.
I understand that it's not a credit check @strelitzia32 ... the item on R4 this morning stated that because the same database was being used, the procedure cannot progress as the people involved have no credit history and therefore cannot be validated as 'existing'.
Even if the speed at which the system was put in place is incredible, it is surely important that these flaws are pointed out rather than hidden ... it's a case of 'you don't know what you don't know' ... a lack of awareness of the sort of lives that may people lead ... if you don't know that there are people who have no credit history you won't know that you need to build something into the system to cover that hole.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Just read that our local hospital has had no Covid-19 patients on ventilation beds since the start of July and only 1 patient from April 29th to July 1st. We are very lucky here but feel the nationwide lockdown is a step too far for businesses and livelihoods here when the problem is elsewhere in the country. I believe the 3 tier system should have been given more time to work.
“Every day is ordinary, until it isn't.” - Bernard Cornwell-Death of Kings
I should hope after early 40 years nursing, I do put on and remove a mask properly!We had a supply of the PPF25 for DIY, my local counceller (whome I deliver leaflets etc for) gave us, surgical masks with the proper cc accrediting, not the fake ones, in the middle I made masks with high thread cotton content, 3 layers plus a pocket for filter of some sort.
Pretty scary about the Denmark mink-Covid strain.. 214 people infected with it, and 12 with a unique variant. I read elsewhere there are concerns the currently developing vaccines will not work with this new mutation.. and that people who have antibodies from the current strain will have no immunity to this version.
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Members of my family live in a very multi-cultural area where a large proportion of the residents speak extremely limited English and normally have little engagement with the authorities and services ... when information about lockdowns, social distancing, self isolation etc is disseminated these people are being left out ... at the moment they are getting their information from their part-time pastor who speaks some Russian as well as his native language ... he gets his information from my son who also speaks some Russian and translates the newspaper articles to the pastor who then goes to his congregation's homes and tries to explain it.
I'm not in any way a conspiracy theorist ... but I am frustrated by the seemingly amateur and shortsighted way the governmental agencies etc appear to be these things up.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I understate the language issue, but that's an ability to engage with any information if you can't speak the language. Identity validation is a critical component to the provision of the overall system, not least because malicious actors could abuse or take down an online system for their own purposes.
The logistics of the entire program and the speed it was put in place, regardless of its perceived efficacy, is nothing short of incredible.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-54841185
Even if the speed at which the system was put in place is incredible, it is surely important that these flaws are pointed out rather than hidden ... it's a case of 'you don't know what you don't know' ... a lack of awareness of the sort of lives that may people lead ... if you don't know that there are people who have no credit history you won't know that you need to build something into the system to cover that hole.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
We are very lucky here but feel the nationwide lockdown is a step too far for businesses and livelihoods here when the problem is elsewhere in the country.
I believe the 3 tier system should have been given more time to work.