National Cabinet has set three tests Australia would need to pass in order to ease restrictions, which have included the closure of gyms, entertainment facilities and dining in at cafes and restaurants.
The COVIDSafe App is designed to give state and territory health officials the ability to quickly identify people who might have come into contact with a person who tests positive to coronavirus. He said the easing of restrictions would likely happen in a staggered process to prevent a sudden surge in outbreaks.
The Chief Medical Officer said while there was a likely easing of some restrictions this week, Australia would have to contend with long-term changes even after the pandemic ends."Even when the coronavirus has gone, that will have influences on influenza, colds, gastro, all of those things.
I just bought an Old Flip Phone GET FUCKED
Covidsafe isn’t even active. Too many bugs. That arbitrary 15 minute flag is useless. One second can be enough to contract the China virus.
Piss off
Pity after 7years they can't make an app to trace their expense claims in realtime.
Bollocks, app doesnt stop someone contracting covid19. All it does is give a false sense security. Pass
IF IT'S SO GOOD, WHY IS IT NOT READY TO BE USED?
The number of people who refuse to download the app saying it's a surveillance tool. 🤦♂️
He a puppet of Morrison. App is useless if you cannot have it at work. WHO says it can live on surface space no app gonna trace that. Don’t work properly on iPhone and they still working on it. Stupid government
BWorthington_ it doesnt effing work. BBC says not very good so why are you pushing the party line? Kids at home pissing you off
what an absolute crock of shit. It doesnt work. BBC says it is not good. Why is the ABC pushing such a rancid line of thought? Who is Brett Worthington Is he on twitter or doesn't bother
'Bold' - we are going to kill people. SpinDoctor
Except it doesn't work?
When will the Covid App be operational on Apple iPhones. Can the Government get anything right.
Let me know when it works on an iPhone, privacy legislation in place and protocols between states and Commonwealth finalised, then I will probably download.
And we dont want bold that's ie the equivalent of reckless
Bullshit that app encourages false sense security ot does nothing 2 prevent infection It is to trace who HAS NOT social distanced by time some1 symptomatic & gets test results the ppl they infected will hav infected many more.
I like nothing better than being lectured at by unelected officials. It’s bad enough when politicians do it.
FatherBob Shame it’s not working
Download a tracking app for more freedom? George Orwell would be proud....
Another threat. Do it or you don’t get your freedom back we won’t forget this at the next election ScottMorrisonMP
So the government can monitor and manipulate our every move, no thanks.
Without the stick some people will want to eat more carrots.
Well I know quite a few older folk - you know, in the susceptible age group - and they don’t have nor can they afford the latest smartphones. A friend has a Samsung Galaxy 4 he bought 5 years ago. Works fine but not compatible with the App.
Many meltdowns over the app coming from people no doubt who have 20 or more on their phone already, use FB, Google etc, who 'zoom' all day and live life in very digital ways thus having already quite willingly offered up their data/privacy without batting an eyelid! Pfft.
Professor, please don't bribe us !!!
While covid-19 exists at any level in our midst it is unsafe to consider mingling at any level. People who choose to mix in large numbers pose huge risks, not only to themselves but also to their family members when they return home. Think of your family members before you mix.
Bold easing everywhere except here in the CCP Puppet State of Danistan
Still no.
Bugger off, I want to KEEP the restrictions, not ease them. Am terrified you are doing this, it's enabling a 2nd wave. You're supposedly a doctor, why aren't you looking after us?
we'll give you your freedom back if you do what we say
Why don't the government just get the data from Google and apple? All problems fixed, simple.
Where’s the science? Where’s the random population testing? ABC call them out on this crap! I’m over it auspol Australia THE APP IS NOT SUNSCREEN. COVID DOESN’T CARE IF YOU HAVE THE APP OR NOT.
Wow, didn’t realise the government was in an abusive relationship with its citizens, oh wait, of course it is auspol Australia
The app is yet another clever marketing ploy from Scotty from Marketing. A distraction and a crutch that allows him to justify the reckless abandonment of measures that are with certainty eliminating the virus so he can have his 'snap back' - however briefly it will last.
The app is being dishonestly sold as a kind of shield that will allow us to go back onto a train or into a pub safely. Its also a distraction from the fact that the government isn't yet resourcing the testing and tracking systems that will actually make a difference.
Is that the app that doesn’t work? lol no f&$ing way
Is it working yet? Is it working yet?
This is basic extortion. ‘Use our product or you’ll never see your loved ones again.’ auspol
BrendanMurphy can you guarantee that no one else will get Covid-19 if they download this app?
Just wait til they try this shit with forced vaccinations !
The fact that this is their headline is all the more reason to not download the app
We don’t need ‘bold’ Brendan, we need safe, responsible, accurate and caring. Obviously a bit difficult to maintain.
Ah, that awkward moment when you just don't trust ScottMorrisonMP and his LNPfail govt.
So smart .. but I hope infected people update their info on the App correctly.
Good. That means if I don't download it I help delay the 'reopening'. Going for elimination...
Don’t buy in to this this fraud. This is their rush for cash. Wait until it is hacked and your location data is busted open. You don’t need it. Nor do they.
Put a process around the app and legislation to convince folks it will deliver the benefit claimed and won't be misused in the future. Who trusts Dutton to do the right thing , no one. Why? He 'forgot' his North QLand property for 3years but remembers to negative gear it.
Am I the only person who thinks that the government will ease restrictions regardless of how many people download the app? Their turning their focus on the economy now.
Not on your nelly - don’t fall for that one
Foul. Are we going from TheLuckyCountry to The Voluntary PoliceState now? DefundGovernment Freedom
Does it work yet
FatherBob Free download numbers are vanity. Ask any app developer. What’s the delete rate? What’s the active state rate? The iPhone version doesn’t work.
The Chielf Medical Officer has been right so far!
Suck my left nut.
Disgusting blackmail‼ Coercing Australians to submit to government surveillance. Especially, now that there's NO URGENCY ! Unconscionable! Disgraceful!
Imagine my neighbour's surprise when I 'Boldly' performed open heart surgery on him--despite extensive worldwide evidence that it may NOT be a great idea--seeing as how I am not an expert in the field. It's just my boss with some strange beliefs thought it would be a good idea..
🤣🤣🤣🤣 tell them they’re dreaming!
Just another reason not to download the app
Bribery and corruption is the LNPs middle name
I'm not 100% sure I particularly like the idea of 'BOLD' reducing of restrictions 'Restrained'---'Careful'--maybe 'Bold' always makes me think of some drunk wanker falling from the 8th story of a hotel while planking on the edge of the balcony...
Putting a bit to much confidence into that App I'm afraid to say!!!! It's not a medical grade solution. Its a home / hobby app at best!
Further - Peter Collignon is one of these 'experts' who keeps saying how hard elimination of the virus is - DESPITE the fact that the virus is being eliminated in NT, SA, WA, and quite probably in TAS and QLD Can't you get experts like the NZ expert who is achieving elimination?
Headline writers strike again. He actually said: “the more confident we are, the more bold we can be” Completely different. Writers of headlines really seem to be among the worst humans
This is blatant bribery. Australians deserve better the app dors not not protect you.
Quit the bullying I’m not doing it ...
ABC News. WHY did you give Peter Collignon air time tonight. He says 'this is as low as its going to get'. This is the same person wrote an article LAST WEEK saying Australia was stuck at around 50 cases per day and NZ would not get below the 10-20 band. He's untrustworthy.
As if, what a load of Nonsense . It's more a case of giving your passwords away to the Government to the USA and all its dodgy business connections and practices. Why trust this government it's a sales pitch
Not until Scomo shows proper transparency and he sack the liars Bridget and Angus. How can we trust the LNP when they have criminals amongst them
It's not compulsory to download but it's a requirement?
Pity they've burned all their goodwill and trust.
Blackmail
Who wants 'bold' during a 🔊 P A N D E M I C ?!!
They will have a vaccine by the time the app is working
Lol. Nope. Looks like I'm a rebel.
I was going to download it, but not now. Not after him stating this afternoon that they had been TRACKING MOVEMENTS of citizens for seemingly no other than curiosity. The app was to trace not TRACK.
Hey CMO, get bent
They took Murphy to the sidelines (probably for media training) after his famous confusing press conferences and now he gets wheeled out when the PM needs a bunny.
Where is Albo during all the BS ? The guy has vanished from the debate...what a sell out.
Yet more blackmail. They will have to lift restrictions without us downloading spy software, so just just hang in there people.
It is just marketing spin.
I would like to know if there are limits to putting the app on old phones. My high school aged son is using my old smartphone. It's probably about 7 years or so old. Well he can't get it. The app doesn't come up on the playstore when he searches. Is the operating system too old?
You need serious help if you are stupid enough to download this app. Our jellyfish government need the ass not an app. The covid19 is abig hoax aimed at the usa elections. People need to wake up we are collateral damage and you have abetter chance of Dieing from a falling coconut
How would downloading an app that doesn’t work help? About as well as electing a government that doesn’t work I guess.
Might have done so before being bribed
Its not even active and 'working' for another week. And even then it will not stop you getting covid, infecting others and possibly dying from it.
I will not be bribed
The downloading of the app and registering won’t be the deciding factor on ease of restrictions.
Go die for the Liberal Party, says ABC.
How is downloading the app going to make lifting restrictions possible? The app doesn't work...and that's according to the government.
Yea the Government is So trustworthy
It kinda needs to work first. No point if it’s only for contacts of 15 min or more and utterly useless if it doesn’t work on iPhones at all.
well release all the code, make tender response public and host data only in Australia
The app does not help contain the virus, it can only follow it at a distance. 7 days or so, particularly given no-symptoms testing isn't allowed, or isn't encouraged.
Political extortion as breaking news.
Bollocks
& Mandatory masks in public & education how to wear them - next step
Do not let this Government or its so called health professionals to blackmail you into downloading this app. It will not stop the virus and is only political rhetoric. ScottMorrisonMP DanielAndrewsMP DanTehanWannon PaulineHansonOz Senator_Patrick OzraeliAvi AlboMP
Bloody baby boomers are destroying Australia DELIBERATELY just because they are NOT courageous, confident and competent enough to move forward. Looking for the app to be the perfect scapegoat and threatening people's civil liberty to force them to use the app. Go to hell! 🖕🖕
We don't negotiate with terrorists
Sounds like he's been hobbled to me.
New ways to track ya. They will be putting sensors on the crapper next.
Bold easing too soon will see a second wave! Anything the CMA says is politicised! He is an agent expressing the wishes of Morrison with a mere hint of medical evidence! Best to focus on what the states are saying!
Obsessed.
Spoken like a true liberal.
Well, wouldn’t it also be helpful if they got the app to actually work before easing restrictions auspol ScottMorrisonMP AlboMP
Anything beyond paper and pencils developed by the governments in this country are not worth the risk. The trail of woe proves it.
Bribery
Easing restrictions to a large degree needs to be based on zero cases for 14 days - I thought that was the medical advice. The app is only a tool for ‘fast suppression’ of an outbreak. 1/2
unless you listen to the BEEB BBC says it is ot very good and the bloody thing doesnt work, Only there to invade privacy. Why doesnt the ABC do a story on the BBC story?
Can this man please use his medical knowledge, the available data and logic instead of getting obsessed with app, so it can be used as a scapegoat for his incompetence. Idiot.
That does not work in iOS.
I wonder when the feds will realise there irrelevant... as is there App
Lol no
Here we go... we'll let you out as long as you agree to wear this tracking device at all times.
It’s obvious risk can’t get much lower than it is right now. Andrews and Sutton just hoping for eradication but that futile. Risk will be way higher when we reopen airports in 2021. Do we go back to square one then? auspol DanAndrews
Coercing bully! Send me to the head teacher for a caning. I feel sorry for you kids....BULLY BOY😡
Nup
NOW I'm suspicious! When a government resorts to blackmail!!! They are up to no good. And by the way... I really enjoyed quarantine. So... yeah...
Winter is Coming Murphy's Law would suggest cold's flue & pandemic's thrive in the colder months Dan Andrews best Medic's seem to be working for best results for Victorian's. No app is going to stop the spread. back tracking movements ? better to be in front & avoid infected
TraceySpicer Anyone else feel like restrictions will be held until the ransom is paid (i.e everyone install the app)... and I have installed it btw
I bet he does!
which does not work.
I don't want the government to be more 'bold' in easing restrictions. I want the government to have a measured approach, to show caution and restraint.
Yeah and next it will be forced onto you, or you will not be able to leave your home.. 1984 much!
Ahh love a bit of guilt tripping blackmail
If this doesn’t remove any remaining credibility the CMO had left I’m not sure what will.
They went frm flattening the curve 2 testing & now prove we r distancing. We r adults & did nothing wrong. This is unconstitutional. We all did what We were asked based on false data. Fine, but now u have all these unconstitutional conditions. We’re not going 2 give up privacy 2.
I’m so sick of hearing about “the app” 1984
This bloke needs to head out a bit more. Not a lot of social distancing in shopping malls.
Why has no one mentioned the missing 15 minutes?
Transfer the data storage to AUS. Dumb move to have it in the USA when we have the capability onshore even if marginally dearer. Also better value in that more people will commit to Covidsafe.
Did anyone ask him about the ABC report yesterday that the States haven't yet agreed how they'll use it so it is, in effect, not at all useful?
'Bold' easing of restrictions possible if more people trusted government.
Social Distancing Forever!!!
Bribery
Disgraceful
ScottMorrisonMP GregHuntMP When will the app be active so vital data can be shared to keep all Australians safe? COVID19Aus
The 👏 app 👏 is 👏 not👏 working 👏 yet!
I can’t wait till DR’s go back to giving us medical ‘advice’ rather than a medical dictates. They have lost a grip on reality and their role in society.
The CMO following orders and dishing out threats. I’m not downloading it.
I'm sad people are fighting this from a misguided belief it is somehow a nefarious app. I'm sad no-one notices the *same* people suggesting you download it are the SAME people who have kept you safe so far. I'm sad people prefer spread, death & lockdown over a temp' BT app.
No
Not in this lifetime. Trust in the Fed CMO zero, trust in LNP less then that.
So I can stop the easing of restrictions by not downloading the app? Hell yeah
This is blackmail or extortion and eerily reminiscient of an abusive relationship. It doesn’t even work. Hasn’t gone through parliament. This government has cost lives and time through Ruby Princess. No way do they have the high ground to even gently ask us to download.
If we had a Bold guarantee of a Federal ICAC and RubyDutton dismissed for gross incompetence perhaps there would not be visceral rage at the suggestion of your ridiculous sunscreen app.
Is the app even working yet
Blackmail won’t work bitches
Have they worked out how to use it yet?
More from the LNP blackmailer auspol COVID19Aus covidsafe not
😂Please go away with this bullshit
It doesn’t work though!
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