Ireland is getting locked on locked down
John Duggan is getting a lambasted on twitter, tis an ill wind that brings no good.
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The government have seriously botched their messaging on this one.
The L word has sent people into panic stations. They should never have used it.
They used it because they wanted to be be seen to be taking stern action, ie. they used it for their own benefit, not the benefit of ordinary people.
Theyâll be grand again by tomorrow, they just need to get it out of their system
Youâd be mad to type LOCKDOWN in anything other than caps.
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The likelihood is though that the government are going to have to use the L word agai, next week, and next time it will be for real.
The key to messaging of this type is in underselling how draconian it is, not overselling it. The keep calm and carry on style message.
Theyâve basically told everyone to panic, which is what you donât do.
Camden
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Yesterday they werenât taking it seriously enough. Now theyâve acted and your criticising them for causing panic. If I didnât know better Iâd think you were just being contrary
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Their messaging was fine. The most important thing is the measures. Coveney was very poised
They werenât taking it seriously enough and probably still arenât. The point is you take actual real measures which are designed to work, yet frame it in the language of normality.
This is fairly basic stuff.
What they have done is take some fairly lightweight measures and framed them in the language of panic.
The supermarkets are not closing. Yet it appears everybody thinks they are. That shows the tone of the messaging has been disastrous. Keystone Cops stuff.
They were damned either way. When Sidney is dictator, all the messages will be pitch-perfect
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If only we had had a hard-left socialist dictatorship, all this could have been avoided
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Cant be easy for anyone involved in care work with the elderly at this time, I hope heâs ok wherever he is.
Same goes for all of you with elderly family. Go well.
If it is used again at least people are stocked up.
Itâs the level of stupidity out there though, mass buying herding together like tools.
News this evening isnât going to be good.
Good news coming from Banking sector thank God ref mortgage repayments.
The amount of people buying slabs of cans earlier was hilarious.
Mortgage holiday partys incoming!
The population isnât taking this seriously at all, hence the language used needed to said.
They canât win
He looked very orange last night.
Yes.
No repayments till June Iâm hearing but will be added to overall value.
Better option than lumping on the payments 1st month back. Proactive move though.