When they say 'no planes are leaving Kabul airport empty'... they're technically correct.Someone has to fly them!
Quote:Ex-Royal Marine Paul 'Pen' Farthing sees wife leave Kabul on almost empty plane(UK) Sky News:
'Paul 'Pen' Farthing tells Sky News how aircraft are taking off from Kabul airport every hour
"regardless of whether they're full or not", adding: "People can't get in, they cannot get into
the airport."...'
Quote:No planes leaving empty says UK defence secretaryBBC:
'No plane carrying Britons and Afghans from Kabul has left empty, the UK defence secretary has said.
Ben Wallace rejected reports that some flights from Kabul contained only a few people, saying the UK was
"absolutely ploughing through the numbers".
UK defence secretary Ben Wallace.
He told BBC Breakfast "every hour counts" and confirmed "the Taliban are letting our people through"...'
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On a different note -but still one that tells you your world isn't what you think it is via that TV in the corner of your room!
The below is accurate and taken from the UK's Governmental PDF advice statement. I deleted the reference numbers
in the paragraphs for easier reading, but nothing else has been removed.
Notice paragraph Two and the advice offered to 'cajole' the public into thinking a certain way.
Options for increasing adherence to social distancing measures
22nd March 2020
Education
1. Specificity: The guidance currently lacks clarity and specificity with regards to recommended behaviours.
For example, instead of the phrase ‘try to’, it should just say ‘do’. Phrases such as ‘as much as is practicable’, ‘non-essential’,
‘significantly limit’, and ‘gathering’ are open to wide differences in interpretation.
This can lead to confusion about exactly what people are being required to do (e.g. gathering outside or going for walks).
Guidance now needs to be reformulated to be behaviourally specific: who needs to do what (precisely) and why (explain
the rationale) and communicated through channels that provide personalised advice and account for individual circumstances
including SMS messaging and an interactive website.
Persuasion
2. 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.
3. Responsibility to others: There seems to be insufficient understanding of, or feelings of responsibility about, people’s role in
transmitting the infection to others. This may have resulted in part from messaging around the low level of risk to most people
and talk of the desirability of building ‘herd immunity’.
Messaging needs to emphasise and explain the duty to protect others.
4. Positive messaging around actions: People need to see self-protective actions in positive terms and feel confident that they will
be effective. Individuals also need to understand that the survival of the severely ill will be increased by the capacity of the health care
system, which in turn will be increased by reducing the rise in infections now.
Messaging about actions need to be framed positively in terms of protecting oneself and the community, and increase confidence that
they will be effective.
5. Tailoring: Some people will be more persuaded by appeals to play by the rules, some by duty to the community, and some to personal
risk. All these different approaches are needed.
The messaging also needs to take account of the realities of different people’s lives. Messaging needs to take account
of the different motivational levers and circumstances of different people.
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Link To PDF:
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