COVID-19 — Coronavirus

[AJ71]

The release of the new messaging, reminds me a bit of this..

 

[kaz7]

Not sure if my level of alertness is actually alert enough.

What's the reference point please?

Don't be stupid,it means the starting point is alert alert,or is it alert,you know what I mean

 

[Stoned Rose]

Don't be stupid,it means the starting point is alert alert,or is it alert,you know what I mean

Nope mate. That hasn't assisted one bit tbh.

 

[SWP's back]

If you have to clarify the message then the message is not clear,they say it means stay at home,maybe something like be careful would be better if they must change it

I didn’t need it clarifying as I’m not a moron.

It works perfectly well. How would you have worded it?

 

[kaz7]

Nope mate. That hasn't assisted one bit tbh.

Boris will make it clear later,maybe

 

[quiet_riot]

Boris will make it clear later,maybe

In his pre-recorded speech?

 

[SilverFox2]

And given that no country can lock down for the next 12 months then at some points we’ll have to open back up again. Protect the vulnerable and do all we can as individuals through social distancing to reduce the spread.

Do you feel the previous methods to protect the vulnerable worked?

I agree it is time to get things going again but as an older person I have very little confidence that "lessons will be learnt" from the recent happenings.

 

[kaz7]

I didn’t need it clarifying as I’m not a moron.

It works perfectly well. How would you have worded it?

Be careful is much clearer than stay alert,this has to be aimed at the thicko's,as they have clarified it means stay at home,that has people here shaking their heads,media,Nicola S,wales and ireland,Nicola is talking now and all the questions are about what does stay alert means and why did he not discuss it with you and you had to find out in the paper,it is a crucial time and off goes boris on his own again

 

[Nellies left peg]

Not sure if my level of alertness is actually alert enough.

What's the reference point please?

Asking the great British public to be alert is a fucking joke after the way some of them have blatantly disregarded this wishy-washy lockdown

 

[kevin horlocks wand]

This is off the telegraph so a paywall so not posting link but free to look . It’s the professor previously advising commenting on risk by age....


Let's look at the young group. People are anxious about children, and there's 10 million under 15s in England and Wales, how many of those have died? Had Covid on their deaths out of these 30,000 have died? Two out of 10 million.”

Acknowledging such cases were “very tragic” he said, “this is the tiniest risk you could ever think of”.

Although children and young people may pass on Covid-19, their personal risk was “staggeringly low” he continued.

“If we look at under 25s, there're 17 million of them in the country where we have 26 deaths recorded,” he said, suggesting a similar risk would be seen in “a couple of days” in general accidents and sudden deaths.

However, he said the risk for the over 90s was 10,000 times as high, with more than one per cent of over 90s having died from Covid-19.

“That's a substantial proportion. That is 10,000 times the risk of the younger people,” he said, saying the sharp gradient of risk meant that it doubled roughly every six or seven years with age.

He said the Government’s attempt to communicate with the public was “completely embarrassing.”