Coronavirus outbreak

[DCLane]

The 'stay alert' bit I get slightly, although 'stay home' would have been better.

'Control the virus' is the bit I don't. How do you 'control' an inanimate, invisable, parasitic, non-living organism? *

* Answers on a postcard please from any parents of teenage boys

 

[kingrollo]

Thank you baked potato

Maybe I'm not alert enough - that ones gone right over my head ?

 

[glasgowcyclist]

Which from other threads around cyclechat from @Pat "5mph" for example, seems to be being loosely interpreted in some places in Scotland?

It’s being ignored by some but that’s folk being dicks, not the result of an unclear message.
The majority of the population is following the guidance.

 

[tom73]

Thank you baked potato

The new slogan along with all the rest of it the song will take about as long it takes to bake one

 

[kingrollo]

The 'stay alert' bit I get slightly, although 'stay home' would have been better.

'Control the virus' is the bit I don't. How do you 'control' an inanimate, invisable, parasitic, non-living organism?

You heard of death by PowerPoint ?

Perhaps they hope the virus will die of "death by slogan"

 

[tom73]

The 'stay alert' bit I get slightly, although 'stay home' would have been better.

'Control the virus' is the bit I don't. How do you 'control' an inanimate, invisable, parasitic, non-living organism? *

* Answers on a postcard please from any parents of teenage boys

It's all down to how you use the force

 

[Rocky]

Maybe I'm not alert enough - that ones gone right over my head ?

Sorry - it’s another trivial meaningless slogan (as sung by Matt Lucas)

 

[mjr]

Why not just wait for the official message at 7pm rather than reading (and even believing) the rubbish in the media?

Because maybe if enough of us rip the piss out of this stupid slogan on social media now, Boris may change course before impaling the country on the iceberg of confusion at 7pm? I don't think they would have put the like of Minister Jenrick out to defend it this morning unless they were seriously considering it.

 

[tom73]

Sorry - it’s another trivial meaningless slogan (as sung by Matt Lucas)

Difference is his won't kill people

 

[mjr]

Read the rest of it, it’s a slogan nothing more
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Well, that's a confused clusterfark of communication, isn't it? Am I meant to remember the top slogan, the bottom slogan, the five little icon-bullet points, the warning banner across the middle or what?

A campaign team that relentlessly hammered one single not-entirely-truthful slogan through a referendum campaign is looking nervous, flip-floppy and out of its depth now it has power and a real life-or-death challenge. It's really annoying. I think even those of us that campaigned for the other side (and would have had mixed feelings about their other project stuffing up - happy to see them fail but sad to see our compatriots in economic difficulty) would really love Dom, Boris and co to get their shoot together now and communicate clearly, calmly and consistently again, rather than die on their bottoms quite so painfully (and lethally) for the country.

 

[Rocky]

Perfectly clear instructions to me

What does limit contact mean? Time limit? Distance limit? Number of people limit? When it says other people, who are other people? People you don’t know? People who don’t live with you? I’m sorry but it is so ambiguous.

 

[tom73]

This is all before we get to find out what this new virus level warning system is.
5 levels green to red. I hope Boris has enough crayons left over. He's already used the Red, green and yellow oh and the blue not forgetting the black.

 

[tom73]

What does limit contact mean? Time limit? Distance limit? Number of people limit? When it says other people, who are other people? People you don’t know? People who don’t live with you? I’m sorry but it is so ambiguous.

That's why you have to stay alert so you can work it out. By which time you've ran out of time to do anything about it.... Simples

 

[vickster]

What does limit contact mean? Time limit? Distance limit? Number of people limit? When it says other people, who are other people? People you don’t know? People who don’t live with you? I’m sorry but it is so ambiguous.

I don’t think anything much is actually going to change, it is going to be gradual. I see it as the same message as before. This is a message, the details will presumably come out in the guidance following today’s address

 

[dutchguylivingintheuk]

He said downloaded on the BBC, which does not mean using, but it's still disappointingly high.

Would be something to say for if it is an good app, you know with source codes public and things like that. And if it would actually work, not like it has the be unlocked in the Iphone version and is draining your battery.. but government and I.T. what could possibly go wrong?