With the nation’s health at stake, it was revealed this week that GCHQ has embedded a team in Downing Street to provide Boris Johnson with real-time updates to combat the ’emerging and changing …
How Media Fear-Mongers Misrepresent COVID-19
In the spirit of accentuate the negative and eliminate the positive, the number of people who tested negative for COVID-19 will not be announced. Source: How Media Fear-Mongers Misrepresent COVID-19 | The American …
WHO warns some countries may have to reinstate lockdowns as coronavirus pandemic accelerates
“It isn’t too late to turn it around. It isn’t too late to get the infrastructure in place, to work on that and to use it appropriately,” Dr. Maria Van Kerkhove, head of …
Dr. Anthony Fauci says new virus in China has traits of 2009 swine flu and 1918 pandemic flu
Here we go again… Can anyone finally arrest this guy? [s2p] The virus, which scientists are calling “G4 EA H1N1,” has not yet been shown to infect humans but it is exhibiting “reassortment …
Options for increasing adherence to social distancing measures
Perceived threat: A substantial number of people still do not feel sufficiently personally threatened; it could be that they are reassured by the low death rate in their demographic group, although levels of concern may be rising. Having a good understanding of the risk has been found to be positively associated with adoption of COVID-19 social distancing measures in Hong Kong. The perceived level of personal threat needs to be increased among those who are complacent, using hard-hitting emotional messaging. To be effective this must also empower people by making clear the actions they can take to reduce the threat.
