Is this letter to be delivered to every house in the country necessary?

Tom - read what I wrote. I said I've already read it. I know where it is if I need it again. I don't need to open and read the paper one as and when it arrives. I only need to read it once. Does that help?
 
Could have given every nurse an extra £20 for the money spent.
I know where I’d have preferred the money go
 
You have to realise by now that both the leader in the UK and in America are malignant narcissists. Just about the worst type of people you can have leading a country in a crisis.

What do you expect them to do apart from promote themselves?
 
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It's hardly nonsense mate. (And to some extent I was referring to taking an action (any action) and spending).

If they take an action the government generally get criticised from some quarter. Likewise if they spend or they don't spend.

Most governments are damned if they do, dammed if they don't.

Regarding this letter specifically... supposing a handful of people changed their actions as a result? It COULD lead to some lives being saved. Then it's down to what "cost" you assign to a life?
 
Sorry, disagree.
During the election they managed social media brilliantly and changed the behaviour of many.
They have the opportunity to do that again and, at best, it is light touch.
Same for TV - The Chief Medical Officer (not recognised by all btw) gets the occasional slot.
If you are serious - you take the TV opportunity and smash it.

If he’d done all that and still felt the need for a letter it would be a different discussion (we’d be in deep do do if that happened tho)

The letter is designed (IMO) to do no more than say ‘look at me, I’m in charge, do this etc.) It’s about ratings not helping.
 
money would have been better spent buying some of those testing kits the private sector seem to be able to snap up without a problem
 
Although his reasons for doing it are questionable, probably for self publicity and to give the illusion of control, if, as Cuthbert says, it changes the behaviour of some people and that leads to lives being saved, less people being infected and less strain on the NHS then it will be a very good thing indeed.
 
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I guess it's only 5 days ago; it feels like a lifetime though.
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Like you say, they published the actual letter on Saturday (see link below).

https://assets.publishing.service.g...etter_to_nation_on_coronovirus_Accessible.pdf

Like everything else with this Government, it’s the logistics of implementation (printing, enveloping, dispatching and delivering 30m letters) which they don’t seem to have considered. Ordinarily, you would expect a significant proportion of those logistical operations to have been completed before any announcement, for the simple reason that otherwise it makes you look incompetent.

Unfortunately, we appear to have a Government which thinks that announcing policies and actually implementing them are the same thing.
 
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