No where is enforcing it, and folk are choosing not to because no one wants to be pinged by track and trace and told to isolate, especially now the rules around isolation are the strictest they’ve been in months.
I don’t ever use the app, I check in through my web browser by scanning the QR codes
Compliance in general seems to have plummeted in Scotland. I took a rail trip to England this summer and everyone had masks on til we got to Newcastle or so. Now on local services maybe 60% or more aren’t wearing them. Rules haven’t changed to my knowledge.
The same with students in the uni, where I work. Similar mandatory usage of masks while indoors on campus, but of course if no one enforces a rule it doesn’t really exist.
I’m in Glasgow right now. Been four different places, nobody is checking in and we haven’t even been asked or prompted.
Vax passport hasn’t been checked either. If this is legally enforceable then it’s not on me.
I’ve checked in less recently. There’s been a few places where you are asked to check in and they really shouldn’t be, as they are a shop rather than a cafe or pub. But for me I think there is a lack of visibility of the system actually being used. Like if there was some sort of campaign to say “hey we isolated 2000 people from the check in service last week” people would actually see it works, but my impression is that this data is rarely if ever, used to track someone, as the tables are 2m apart or have screens, so even if somebody did have Covid at the next table, I wouldn’t have to isolate. Or the waitress wore a mask the whole time.
I’ve never seen “Covid case traced to cafe x, so cafe x closes as all staff are now a close contact”. I’ve never heard of anyone being contacted. I have been pinged by the protect Scotland app, so that clearly does something. It’s just apathy really.
It’s the same with so many of our measures, masks for example. Our office policy is wear masks when waking around but once sat in a meeting room, you can take them off. That just makes no sense, the walking around is low risk, while the sitting in a room for an hour is high risk.
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No where is enforcing it, and folk are choosing not to because no one wants to be pinged by track and trace and told to isolate, especially now the rules around isolation are the strictest they’ve been in months.
I don’t ever use the app, I check in through my web browser by scanning the QR codes
Compliance in general seems to have plummeted in Scotland. I took a rail trip to England this summer and everyone had masks on til we got to Newcastle or so. Now on local services maybe 60% or more aren’t wearing them. Rules haven’t changed to my knowledge.
The same with students in the uni, where I work. Similar mandatory usage of masks while indoors on campus, but of course if no one enforces a rule it doesn’t really exist.
I’m in Glasgow right now. Been four different places, nobody is checking in and we haven’t even been asked or prompted.
Vax passport hasn’t been checked either. If this is legally enforceable then it’s not on me.
I’ve checked in less recently. There’s been a few places where you are asked to check in and they really shouldn’t be, as they are a shop rather than a cafe or pub. But for me I think there is a lack of visibility of the system actually being used. Like if there was some sort of campaign to say “hey we isolated 2000 people from the check in service last week” people would actually see it works, but my impression is that this data is rarely if ever, used to track someone, as the tables are 2m apart or have screens, so even if somebody did have Covid at the next table, I wouldn’t have to isolate. Or the waitress wore a mask the whole time.
I’ve never seen “Covid case traced to cafe x, so cafe x closes as all staff are now a close contact”. I’ve never heard of anyone being contacted. I have been pinged by the protect Scotland app, so that clearly does something. It’s just apathy really.
It’s the same with so many of our measures, masks for example. Our office policy is wear masks when waking around but once sat in a meeting room, you can take them off. That just makes no sense, the walking around is low risk, while the sitting in a room for an hour is high risk.