Coronavirus: social, economic and other changes as a result of the pandemic

[Anastasius]

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Re domestic vaccine passports, I’m with the Lib Dems .

I had to go and read what their views were although I could guess given your stance . Here's a snippet...

Vaccine passports will also give the government unprecedented access to people’s health data, amounting to yet another infringement on civil liberties by this authoritarian Conservative government.

In a word ....cobblers. The current talk is to have a tab on the NHS App that lists your vaccine status. That's as good as a vaccine passport IMO. So if you or anyone else is worried about Big Brother 'infringing your rights to infect other innocent people....oop...sorry...civil liberties, well...all that data is there already tied up in the NHS systems. I expect that Boris has a special department diving in to see when I had my last Viagra prescription.

[Bryn]

I had to go and read what their views were although I could guess given your stance . Here's a snippet...

Vaccine passports will also give the government unprecedented access to people’s health data, amounting to yet another infringement on civil liberties by this authoritarian Conservative government.

In a word ....cobblers. The current talk is to have a tab on the NHS App that lists your vaccine status. That's as good as a vaccine passport IMO. So if you or anyone else is worried about Big Brother 'infringing your rights to infect other innocent people....oop...sorry...civil liberties, well...all that data is there already tied up in the NHS systems. I expect that Boris has a special department diving in to see when I had my last Viagra prescription.

To mean to buy your sildenafil without a prescription, eh?

[oddoneout]

I had to go and read what their views were although I could guess given your stance . Here's a snippet...

Vaccine passports will also give the government unprecedented access to people’s health data, amounting to yet another infringement on civil liberties by this authoritarian Conservative government.

In a word ....cobblers. The current talk is to have a tab on the NHS App that lists your vaccine status. That's as good as a vaccine passport IMO. So if you or anyone else is worried about Big Brother 'infringing your rights to infect other innocent people....oop...sorry...civil liberties, well...all that data is there already tied up in the NHS systems. I expect that Boris has a special department diving in to see when I had my last Viagra prescription.

From what I remember of the palaver of opting out of "sharing" my medical records some years ago, the government already has access to such records if it so wishes; all that is needed is for the relevant Minister to declare it is in the national interest or some other suitable excuse. From the way my first jab was organised I know that some sharing at least of my records has occurred between my GP practice and another without me being asked and despite the opt-out request I originally logged which I thought prevented that as well as more major "sharing", presumably because the pandemic situation requires it.
I don't have the NHS app related way in as my phone can't do such things - even when it's switched on...

[Anastasius]

To mean to buy your sildenafil without a prescription, eh?

Of course! I'm an impoverished pensioner.

[Anastasius]

From what I remember of the palaver of opting out of "sharing" my medical records some years ago, the government already has access to such records if it so wishes; all that is needed is for the relevant Minister to declare it is in the national interest or some other suitable excuse. From the way my first jab was organised I know that some sharing at least of my records has occurred between my GP practice and another without me being asked and despite the opt-out request I originally logged which I thought prevented that as well as more major "sharing", presumably because the pandemic situation requires it.
I don't have the NHS app related way in as my phone can't do such things - even when it's switched on...

I do recall that opt-out choice and at that point in time I got a bit hot and bothered about it all and opted-out. Now? I'm far more sanguine about IMO inconsequential things like that.

[oddoneout]

I do recall that opt-out choice and at that point in time I got a bit hot and bothered about it all and opted-out. Now? I'm far more sanguine about IMO inconsequential things like that.

Once I was able to access my medical records online(or those bits I was permitted to see) and get some errors corrected I was less bothered. The general vaccination record was a real shocker as it was auto-filled with all the jabs which are now routine regardless of whether they even existed when I was the age at which they are now administered. When I asked for changes to be made I was met by puzzlement and in one case the view that it didn't matter if I hadn't had the jabs the record said. Can't help thinking that that sort of error rather casts doubt on the value of any data extracted from such records.
The irony was that the one jab I wanted to track down - smallpox - wasn't even shown.

[teamsaint]

Parkrun seems to be facing an uphill struggle to reopen. This is such a shame, and it seems to have been left to David Davis (!) to try to nudge councils and others into granting permissions.
A stern message from the PM at his presser tonight would have been helpful.

[vinteuil]

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... good news, I think.

If you need to prove your covid vaccination status (for overseas travel or otherwise) it looks as if the nhs has got its act together.

Today, the first day it went 'live', Mme v was able to download the nhs covid app on to her smartphone, and - wayhey! - there were details of the two inoculations she had received.

I don't have a smartphone - but rang 119. I provided them with my nhs number, and they say a letter confirming my vaccination status should reach me in five days.

I am impressed.




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[cloughie]

Parkrun seems to be facing an uphill struggle to reopen. This is such a shame, and it seems to have been left to David Davis (!) to try to nudge councils and others into granting permissions.
A stern message from the PM at his presser tonight would have been helpful.

Seems strange - if you have 30 limit and run socially distanced what is the problem - outdoor choir practices can take place and the principle surely is having a breathing space.

[oddoneout]

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... good news, I think.

If you need to prove your covid vaccination status (for overseas travel or otherwise) it looks as if the nhs has got its act together.

Today, the first day it went 'live', Mme v was able to download the nhs covid app on to her smartphone, and - wayhey! - there were details of the two inoculations she had received.

I don't have a smartphone - but rang 119. I provided them with my nhs number, and they say a letter confirming my vaccination status should reach me in five days.

I am impressed.




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Sounds good vints - and pleased to hear there is an alternative for those of us without smartphones.
Pity the Home Office can't do the same for those poor people left in limbo without quick and easy proof of their status.

[Anastasius]

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... good news, I think.

If you need to prove your covid vaccination status (for overseas travel or otherwise) it looks as if the nhs has got its act together.

Today, the first day it went 'live', Mme v was able to download the nhs covid app on to her smartphone, and - wayhey! - there were details of the two inoculations she had received.

I don't have a smartphone - but rang 119. I provided them with my nhs number, and they say a letter confirming my vaccination status should reach me in five days.

I am impressed.




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You've done better than I have. I have the NHS App but because my second jab was done as part of the COM-Cov2 trial, at the moment NIMS won't let their IT systems communicate with it (NIMS is used by the NHS app) and so the app only shows my first. Trying to speak to someone, I got all the way through a couple of times to get a couple of bars of muzak and the the line went dead.

[LMcD]

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... good news, I think.

If you need to prove your covid vaccination status (for overseas travel or otherwise) it looks as if the nhs has got its act together.

Today, the first day it went 'live', Mme v was able to download the nhs covid app on to her smartphone, and - wayhey! - there were details of the two inoculations she had received.

I don't have a smartphone - but rang 119. I provided them with my nhs number, and they say a letter confirming my vaccination status should reach me in five days.

I am impressed.




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I don't have a smart phone either, so many thanks for pointing me in the right direction as far as proof of vaccinations is concerned.

[LHC]

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... good news, I think.

If you need to prove your covid vaccination status (for overseas travel or otherwise) it looks as if the nhs has got its act together.

Today, the first day it went 'live', Mme v was able to download the nhs covid app on to her smartphone, and - wayhey! - there were details of the two inoculations she had received.

I don't have a smartphone - but rang 119. I provided them with my nhs number, and they say a letter confirming my vaccination status should reach me in five days.

I am impressed.




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It might be helpful to note that the NHS App and the NHS Covid app are not the same. The NHS Covid19 app is intended for contact tracing only. Vaccination status is provided on the NHS App, not the NHS Covid19 app.

[vinteuil]

It might be helpful to note that the NHS App and the NHS Covid app are not the same. The NHS Covid19 app is intended for contact tracing only. Vaccination status is provided on the NHS App, not the NHS Covid19 app.

... ah, thanks for the correction



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[Petrushka]

It might be helpful to note that the NHS App and the NHS Covid app are not the same. The NHS Covid19 app is intended for contact tracing only. Vaccination status is provided on the NHS App, not the NHS Covid19 app.

It can be downloaded here: https://www.nhs.uk/nhs-services/onli...vices/nhs-app/