The ‘Stay Alert’ message is being ridiculed everywhere I look.

Not surprising considering it is ridiculous whichever way you look at it 

I've had the monthly summary report through from my car (it emails me once a month) and it strikes me I'll probably not see the likes of this again for several years, if ever*. I expect as the lockdown frays ("stay alert" - what garbage, it implies you don't have to stay at home any more) that I'll be called in more frequently to work, and once the guidelines change for gatherings I will be back to the wolf centre.

In the meantime, I'll enjoy the fuel savings and - when I do go out - the much quieter roads.

(* - my plan is to leave the school once the wolves die - the youngest are 9 at the moment - and work from home. I will thus be driving much less, although 100 miles a month - as in April - will be a hard ask!)

The ‘Stay Alert’ message is being ridiculed everywhere I look.

If the ‘Stay home’ line is being changed to ‘Stay alert’, doesn’t this suggest some lifting of restrictions?

It implies that you can do what you like, providing you keep a distance / be aware not to cough on people etc. Obviously that's not the case, but it's such a failure of a message that you just know people will take it as carte blanche to meet their pals / organise sports matches etc.

The police moved 850 people on from the beaches in Thanet yesterday. The law may still technically be the same, but it'll be damned hard for them to enforce it now that the message has changed...

(Source: https://www.kentonline.co.uk/thanet/news/850-people-ordered-off-beaches-in-one-day-226953/ )

That's all good, but my point is that (unlike other countries) we didn't adapt quickly

If the ‘Stay home’ line is being changed to ‘Stay alert’, doesn’t this suggest some lifting of restrictions?

Limit contact with other people ………………..other than who ?

Its an  absolutely ridiculous comment - Sent the slogan to a mate ………...reply " Does this mean we can go and see friends" 

Had we reacted quicker you would have still criticised the Govt.   Whatever we did you would have complained.  Because that's what people like you do. 

Sorry, but that's just rubbish. I was supportive of the govt until early March. 

Keep an eye on Germany. The German people are apparently much keener to end lockdown than we are. Therefore, I expect the German federal government and regional states will be minded to keep easing for a while.

The reproduction rate of the virus in Germany has risen above one, causing concern days after some restrictions were eased.

The country's "R-value" - the average number of people a patient will infect - is now 1.1, the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) for disease control said. [source: BBC]

Keep an eye on Germany. The German people are apparently much keener to end lockdown than we are. Therefore, I expect the German federal government and regional states will be minded to keep easing for a while.

 

The reproduction rate of the virus in Germany has risen above one, causing concern days after some restrictions were eased.

The country's "R-value" - the average number of people a patient will infect - is now 1.1, the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) for disease control said. [source: BBC]

Riot police clashed with hundreds of protesters yesterday in Berlin wanting an end to the lockdown

People in Scotland can now exercise more than once a day from tomorrow but stay at home messages remains in place

I wonder who would usually exercise more than once a day.

Had we reacted quicker you would have still criticised the Govt.   Whatever we did you would have complained.  Because that's what people like you do. 

What absolute cobblers. 

Edit: This really is a lamentable post, Andy. Xioni was, indeed, broadly supportive of HMG in early March and I can say that because he and I disagreed a few times.

I really do wonder at what point you stopped being able to reason and just started your regime of unquestioning loyalty to Boris Johnson. It is extraordinary.

 

I wonder who would usually exercise more than once a day.

Many people, if the alternative is to be restricted to your house all day.

 

What absolute cobblers. 

Edit: This really is a lamentable post, Andy. Xioni was, indeed, broadly supportive of HMG in early March and I can say that because he and I disagreed a few times.

I really do wonder at what point you stopped being able to reason and just started your regime of unquestioning loyalty to Boris Johnson. It is extraordinary.

TBH David Icke could be the leader of the New Brexit Party and its acolytes would still hoover up the drivel unquestioningly. 

Had we reacted quicker you would have still criticised the Govt.   Whatever we did you would have complained.  Because that's what people like you do. 

Seems to me he looks at the evidence and comes to a view.

Anyway, from tomorrow I can go out and spread the virus without the slightest care in the world - all I have to do now is stay alert while I do it. A better slogan would be:  'In the 1940s we fought for five year and never surrendered, in the 2020s we 'fought' for five weeks and it was all just too difficult for the govt to lead us so we surrendered'.

The ‘Stay Alert’ message is being ridiculed everywhere I look.

Here is a decent analysis of that message.

https://www.pscp.tv/w/1YpJkQzVwRMKj