The Governments message from tomorrow is changing to Stay Alert Control the virus Save Lives

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2020/05/09/stay-alert-boris-johnsons-new-message-nation/

I must say I took my partner to hospital last week for urgent eye surgery I was very impressed with how cautious and safe it was.

I was allowed in see her the lift as my partner is partially sighted in both eyes then to be greeted with 2 nurses with masks and also a set of important questions about covid

I was not allowed in and asked to returned to the car park I waited about 4 hours in the car as the hospital is about 30 miles away (Colchester)

I was then phoned by a nurse to say my partner was ok and would be sent downstairs in a lift in a wheelchair I waited and picked her up wheeled her to the car and returned the wheelchair in a certain area with wipes to clean.

The nurse had cleaned everything before hand before collecting.

I felt safe for my partner and pleased it went ahead as it’s a good chance it has saved her sight in that eye.

We are hoping for further surgery in the other eye soon if we can.

Think toilets would have to be open as covered by Public health care act.

Wish it would say that cafe inside remains shut as many are very small around here SD would be a problem and really I can’t see it necessary at the moment.

Going to be difficult because one person tests positive and the rest all have to go into isolation, be tested etc, which means no games for a couple of weeks. If it just happens to one club then they can just play the games at a later date but has the potential to be chaotic. If it was a shorter time that they had to play games then you could try to put them into isolation the whole time.

Also calls into question how next season is going to work. We have a bit of a discussion on this in the sports forum but there has the potential for at least the start of next season to be messed up by coronavirus.

Tour de france has been postponed and is now supposed to be starting at the end of august. Things may look very different by that stage but i can't help thinking that over the course of 3 weeks someone is going to test positive for coronavirus, either one of the riders or one of the support staff, someone else connected with the race etc, resulting in isolation etc and making a complete mess of it. I would imagine there is a lot of thought going into trying to reduce the risks as much as possible but i just don't see it ending well at the moment, hopefully i will be wrong.

Feelings are mixed among teachers as I regularly ask this question so I would not rule out a earlier phased rota return.

I hope that isn't the slogan they start to use

I don't think the word "alert" is at all apposite for the cautious or defensive behaviour they want to encourage. We are told that the wording and presentation of the current slogan has been a key factor in getting R down below 1 so the actual choice of words is important IMO

Yes and I think that is what has caused the smallish increase in traffic and is unlikely to increase transmission in this phase of the epidemic.

Not exactly "punchy", is it ? 

Not early coherent either !

We are removing from a direct and memorable instruction to  .... well, I don't know what it is really !

A nice man volunteering for the local Council collected and delivered my last lot. 

We are moving to alert 3 what  ever that means 1:5  in existence apparently.

Yes that’s what Hylands park was like last week, pizza and beers and three mile hill fully parked up where are the police to move them on.

cant drive in and park so stick out like sore thumb.

in a way I guess the weather has not helped but that’s not the point things change dramatically if it’s your loved ones affected,

just proves how ignorant the public can be.