Coronavirus: Easing the UK out of lockdown is a confidence game and the PM is losing

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It's hard to give the public confidence in a nuanced message when you are trying to manage a disease you don't fully understand.

That perhaps helps explain why senior ministers and officials I've spoken to are now nodding to a lowering of expectations. Yes, schools are almost certain to open from 1 June but take-up will be minimal at first until more parents feel more confident about sending their children back."It's the carrot not the stick," says one government insider."We've got to show people we have the measures in place.

But the government also needs to put far more flesh on the bones of its five tests in the coming days to give the public more confidence that it has a handle on the disease. It has predicated its route out of lockdown on two critical measures. The first is making sure the- the reproduction number - is below one, in order to make sure the number of infections is under control and not accelerating.

This is true too of track and trace. The government's own deputy chief scientific adviser Dame Angela McLean said this week all changes to lockdown would need an effective system of tracing and isolating new cases, but we have no information on how this system will work beyond the prime minister's commitment to 25,000 new contact tracers being in post by June.

Of course it's much harder to give the public confidence in a nuanced message when you are trying to manage a disease you don't yet fully understand. But the government still has a lot to do convince the public its route map out is safe, starting with making sure its track and trace system is fully operational in 10 days time.

 

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It's ok , the guidelines do not force anyone to do anything. It's up to each individual to decide for themselves.

So negative Beth

still fighting Brexit

Rather not risk it.

The general public have bags of confidence hitting the beaches though! 🤦🏽‍♀️

Thats just an opinion from Beth Rigby who is supposed to be neutral but, just like the rest of reporters have constantly criticised the government disgracefully. Another Sky opinion.

I wouldn't believe the fucking PM even if he said 'the rain has got corona virus in it' fuck off boris ya cunt.🤬😡

Says Bert Rigby.

Goooooooooooood!!!!! 😉👍

That is defo not biased at all is it🤦🏼‍♀️

Enough is enough. 'The PM is losing' is NOT news. It is an opinion, and a horrifically biased one at that. I trust what the government say because the scientists are dictating it. End of story. Stop with this nonsense.

Let's get the normal, poor and working classes children's back to schools. Lets use them as test subjects, but keep Eton and Oxford Universities, private funded schools closed. Its a them and us thing again! Big business is controlling the lockdown not the government.

I wouldn’t believe the PM now if he said rain it wet the sky is blue on sunny days and you can see the stars at night.

Well he could have been winning if he listened last September or even now seems they like killing off our elderly ❤️🌈💙🍀

Don’t let Chris Whitty, Neil Ferguson, Sir Patrick Vallance, Matt Hancock get away from this !! They’re all lunatics. They don’t care about the NHS. They only care about saving their own skin.

Johnson needs to listen to Norman Tebbit ....... 'Get on your bike' Either wake up and do your job, or naff off Johnson.

Is he though... Is he really. We are the people out here dying and he's just gonna get re-elected because he'll come up with some whippy catchphrase and the politically inept British public will suddenly get amnesia... So is he really

Losing? I'd say he's the convict with the nice arse in jail that's just been told to pick up the imperial leather in the showers.

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