So the message is no longer Stay Home, it’s now ‘Stay Alert’ which means absolutely nothing...

So the message is no longer Stay Home, it’s now ‘Stay Alert’ which means absolutely nothing...

 

So does this mean people in England don’t have to stay at home? Because people in the other nations do so it seems daft.

So the message is no longer Stay Home, it’s now ‘Stay Alert’ which means absolutely nothing...

Stay Alert for something we can't see :unsure:

yes Stay Alert when you're out and about or the virus will mug you and steal your lunch money...

 

facetiousness aside, every time I think their harmful vagueness hasn't got any new depths to plumb, they go and outdo themselves. Maybe you can see the intent in this one, if you squint hard enough. But we all know that that's not what people are going to hear, responsible people will stay home as they have been doing and not have any material changes, and some people will resume business as usual and probably cause a further outbreak.

The government's bungled messaging led to Thursday's front pages, just in time for the VE Day weekend. It's hardly surprising if a lot of people thought "If lockdown is due to end on Monday, what difference will a few days make?". Those front pages could almost have been designed to create Friday's madness. As it is, I suspect the government will now use that as their excuse for making very few changes today.

 

Meanwhile, the orange thing shows he is determined not to let Johnson in with even the slightest chance of being the most useless leader of a Western democracy. After Mike Pence's press secretary tested positive, his response was "She tested good for a long period of time, and then all of s sudden she tested positive. This is why the whole concept of tests is not necessarily great. Today, I guess, for some reason she tested positive".

 

Next we can expect him to wonder why a woman he knew kept having negative pregnancy tests and then, all of a sudden, one test said she was pregnant.

 

 

Funny it's the right wing papers who support a return to work no matter that reported this.

 

I still think that people have been thrown a lot of info about the virus in the past 3 months to realise they can't just do what they want even with a slight easing but yes people probably used these headlines as an excuse to do what they want. But I still believe people have to take responsibility for their actions at some point.

 

I was painting my fence yday and the same car from the same household must have driven up and down the road out of his house 20 times in the space of the 6 hours I was doing it. Not to turn into the snooping neighbour but I was laughing at him by the afternoon when he drove past - like where the f*** are you going mate??

Stay alert instead of stay at home reads that you can do what you want as long as you're careful :drama: It's a bloody virus not a creepy man in a white van to avoid.

 

People pretty much (at least in my bubble of working retail) were going out more than once a day, honestly there's a stupid amount of people we will see more than once a day, and that's just in the 6-8ish hours I'm there! So if that's what they were going to allow anyway, not making that clear is dangerous. Give people an inch an they'll take a mile, so with such an ambiguous message I dread to think what people will feel the need to do.

‘Stay Alert’ sounds like they can’t bring anyone the news they want but as long as they change the wording it looks better.

 

As for me the only announcement from Boris that will interest me is his resignation but I guess holding my breath on that one is more likely to kill me than COVID-19.

The messaging is great if you're a Norwich City or Manchester United fan!!!

 

I totally agree the message is a bit unclear, but I also agree with Steve that at some point we all have to take responsibility for our own actions. People have been staying at home (for the majority) for 6 weeks now, and 50% of these people are furloughed. Fatigue sets in, we are human. I'm not saying it's right, but I don't know what the Government can really do expect shoot people in the legs every time someone leaves their home. At some point we're going to have to try and get back running and the virus is still going to be around. Probably good that it's still transmitting in the community slightly as long as there are not large outbreaks.

Shit messaging. If Blair is a war criminal what does that make Johnson?

only 22 new hospitalisations in The Netherlands :cheeseblock:

Also 18 deaths but those are only confirmed, so I'm assuming it's roughly double that as it has been this entire time

only 22 new hospitalisations in The Netherlands :cheeseblock:

Also 18 deaths but those are only confirmed, so I'm assuming it's roughly double that as it has been this entire time

 

How many deaths have there been overall over there now?

How many deaths have there been overall over there now?

5540 confirmed deaths due to covid

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This is just going to lead to people interpreting the rules as they wish — even more so than now. ‘Work from home if you can’? ‘Limit contact with other people’ is not clear messaging at all.

Reminds me of the old play on words "Be alert the world needs more Lerts".

 

Prob where Johnson got it.

 

A catchier phrase would be "Don't be a dick"*

 

(* Dick Van Dyke excepted, he has the only valid excuse for acting like a Dick)

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This is just going to lead to people interpreting the rules as they wish — even more so than now. ‘Work from home if you can’? ‘Limit contact with other people’ is not clear messaging at all.

 

Basically anyone who's furlonged and works somewhere like a building site has the leeway to go to work from tomorrow then?

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This is just going to lead to people interpreting the rules as they wish — even more so than now. ‘Work from home if you can’? ‘Limit contact with other people’ is not clear messaging at all.

 

This is the time for concise and clear messaging. You shouldn’t need a document, which barely makes sense, to explain your important new slogan during a pandemic.

 

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Edited May 10, 20205 yr by blacksquare

The latest set of messaging definitely leaves a lot to be desired. Stay 2 metres apart, where possible. Why say where possible? Why not just say 'stay 2 metres apart'?!!!

 

It's really poor from them, I was pretty shocked by how terrible it was. What does 'limit contact with other people' mean?!!! So I am okay to see people 3 times a week if I would have seen them every day before all of this?!!! A key message should not need an individual to interpret it to suit themselves.

This is worrying, although expected. It’s so important how the government handles this next phase.

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Edited May 10, 20205 yr by blacksquare

The message is essentially the one they were pushing before they were forced into ‘lockdown’.

 

So disappointing, this is the chance to get it properly under control and we just needed 2-3 weeks (with proper messaging) in order to hopefully do that.

Germany and Korea showing that undoing lockdown can still lead to a rise in the R number so testin and tracing essential to any revising of lockdown.