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James O'Brien - The Whole Show

TEST AND TRACE?

James O'Brien - The Whole Show

Global

News, Daily News

4.3912 Ratings

🗓️ 11 August 2020

⏱️ 127 minutes

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Summary

How is the test and trace working? This is a catch-up version of James O'Brien's live, daily show on LBC Radio. To join the conversation call: 0345 60 60 973

Transcript

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0:00.0

the contacts and support people.

0:02.5

Well, it hasn't gone very well.

0:04.1

I check the date. It's well past June the first, but who, I mean, who knows, frankly, whether,

0:09.4

who knows who cares is the question that underpins an awful lot of this coverage.

0:13.2

Now the 11th of August.

0:15.6

Still not really there by any stretch of the imagination.

0:18.8

And if you're not answering your phone, because as we pointed

0:21.9

out, you don't answer your phone, do you? If it's an unfamiliar number, I told you I answered

0:27.6

the phone with an unfamiliar number first time in years the other day, because I thought it might be

0:31.0

the test and trace people. I've left my details on a couple of pub databases, but it was just

0:36.6

oh two trying to flog me a new phone.

0:38.4

But the point is, but we don't answer it.

0:40.2

So that was the most fundamental flaw that we on earth weeks ago, weeks ago.

0:45.6

And the government's finally realized.

0:47.7

Honestly, it takes a clip to go viral before they realize what's going on in their own country,

0:53.5

these people.

0:54.5

It's getting increasingly pathetic. So they're sort of starting again in many ways. And instead of expecting a phone

1:01.3

call, they're now going to sack thousands of call handlers who haven't handled any calls. My

1:05.9

sympathies to them, I mean, that's a nightmare. But of course, the private sector companies that

1:10.5

provide these armies of people doing nothing take a little bit of cream off the top of every pay packet, which explains why perhaps the scenario, the situation has become so awful.

1:21.1

And instead, people will now be sent to the homes of close contacts of positive coronavirus cases.

1:27.4

So if you don't answer your phone, then you'll get a knock on the door.

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