[theo_luddite]

So the Government has suddenly discovered this wizard new idea called Track and Trace. Something they started doing when the virus first showed it's teeth on these shores but promptly gave up on because Boris and his merry men suddenly thought that letting 'the herd' i.e. all of us, cop for it and the survival of the fittest was an even more wizard idea. Until half of Downing Street suddenly copped for the virus before the herd had mostly started coughing, then they went on a big smoke screen laying jaunt, trying to tell us, "nothing to see here". That and ordering 4 plane loads of PPE and only sending one to go and get it from Turkey. The rest of it is likely still in a warehouse somewhere that is nowhere near a hospital.

So all it needs is a significant number of people (way more than half of us) to download a big brother app so they tell where you are and where you've been and when this is all over, you'll forget to take it off your phone so they can continue to track and trace you.

Funny, but Android phones and iPhones already have this kind of app thing built into them anyway. I deactivated mine over Christmas as I was fed up of being told where I'd been and what great pubs and restaurants I'd managed to avoid and that I should visit next time I'm oop Nooerth for a home game or in foreign parts for a holiday. Our Government being what they are, we're obviously now paying someone else big bucks to invent a new one, or re-purpose the one that South Korea used so that it sends info out in English (of some description) rather than Korean. If you read the info on eBay that our friends in the Covid-19 capitals of the Far East write, you'll get an idea of the standard of English it will likely have in it.