What does STAY ALERT mean to you?

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The new slogan - Stay Alert....

Alert to what? Is the virus going to break into our homes?
Listen out for someone coughing then run a mile from them.

What on earth does Stay alert actually mean?

At least Stay home made sense stay alert means nothing at all or AIBU?

Stay Apart would result in other questions, does that mean I can’t be near people in my household etc.

Surely people realise it just means be vigilant, also probably alert to the messages on your phone when we start track and trace.

Fuck all. It’s just another slogan, made deliberately vague so the masses can be blamed for further cocks up.

If it’s prerecorded and contains urgent public health information and instructions WTF is it not being published straight away for? What’s so special about waiting until Sunday evening? I thought the whole point was they craft messages in response to the latest stats being available. I don’t for a minute believe that Johnson has pre-recorded five different versions, the appropriate one to be used depending on what’s the national state of affairs by Sunday evening.

That’s really made me lose confidence in them. Or points to Boris being still pretty ill which I quite understand but then why not say so clearly.

This virus has been around long enough now for normal intelligent people to know the score. The social distancing, hand washing etc still needs to be done. Do what you need to do to protect yourself from it.

I think it means "we will now tell your employer they can force you back to work though we have done sod all about putting safety measures in place but if you fall ill and overload the NHS it will be your fault because you weren't alert enough. We did tell you."

My son is going back to work on Wednesday. I asked if PPE and social distancing will be enforced, given that he has two vulnerable family members. He shrugged and said "that will depend on the manager, won't it?"

Fuck that, I am going to be having wine and watching a good film at 7pm

Had just about enough of this shitshow. I am going to carry on as we have been until there is a vaccine.

Would have preferred 'Stay bright eyed and bushy tailed' but could see it being a challenge sticking it on the lectern

not a lot, although it would help if people didn't stand jabbering in the street and so not letting others get past. It would help if people didn't let their kids run or cycle out of control.

and it would help if people didn't get so pissed and end up in A and E with injuries after parties, there was a lot of that this week. It is time that drunks were barred from healthcare until they sobered up. That should solve a few problems.

It means watch out for the coronorvirus.
It is a tiny red round shaped virus with arms and legs and an angry looking mouth with twitches up and down. It floats around looking for its next victims. If you see it stand still, do not approach it or aggregate it in any way. It has trouble seeing you if you stand still. The verdict is out as to whether or not it is colour blind, but what we do know is that teenage boys are less likely to attract it so here are some tips:
Wear joggers. Preferably grey or dark coloured.
Wear a hoody , even in extreme heat and always wear the hood up.
Wear trainers, expensive ones at that, wear the biggest size you can possibly walk in, the more huge your feet appear the better. The carnivorous might be frightened by big feet.
Walk around with you hands in your pockets.
Try not to talk- instead just grunt, the way teenage boys do, the carnivorous is repelled by grunting.
If you see something on the floor, no matter what it is, kick it. The carnivorous will get confused and target that instead of you.
Finally, eat as much junk food as is humanly possible, this will ensure you develop a fatty protective layer against the virus.

They meant to say Be Alert - your country needs more Lerts but got it wrong as usual.
This 7pm address will be the most over hyped and underwhelming speech ever.

Oh no. This ‘lerts’ thing is going to be everywhere isn’t it.

I agree with VickyEadieofThigh there's zero point of a snappy one-liner if it carriers zero meaning.

The use of 'alert' was big in WWII so it's yet another attempt to push wartime language in an attempt to make people accept the chaos the Govt have allowed to happen as somehow an inevitable consequence of 'war'

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red bull

We're being stealthily eased out without us really noticing how (I'm sure those public announcement adverts are being shown less on tv) so the blame can be shifted later. The rest of Europe is beginning to ease lockdown so the government is eager for us not to lose face despite our huge continuing death rate and many other failings. I feel like I'm being chucked under a bus, tbh. I won't be going out until it means I lose my job if I don't.

A straight forward Keep Your Distance, Protect Each Other, Save Lives.

Done.

Stay Alert - I'll look like something out of the credits to Dad's Army....

Going by MN it means keep an eye on neighbours or anyone you see out, particularly older people in shops because nothing is essential for them as they live on fresh air. Oh and obviously report them, shame them or whatever punishment you think is suitable.

Otherwise I think it sounds like something Boy Scouts might have as a motto.

Stay alert to me means:

• don’t drive she sleepy, stay alert.
• When I was a teen walking around half cut in the late hours, stay alert.
• Assess risks around me as a woman, stay alert.

I would never have associated it with danger from a virus but from a physical threat. But I’m a woman like just over 50% of the British population and they’re a bunch of blokes, who are clueless about physical risk.

Just to be clear other youth organisations are available, I won't try to list them all as I will obviously leave one out and offend someone who is alert.

Well, why don’t you wait until you’re told. And it’s made perfectly clear. As it was last time.

The doctor that came on to speak about things made a very valid point about the track and trace system. Bluetooth works through walls. We live in an end terrace with a carpark next to it. So if we got the app and someone that was in the carpark got the app then got the virus, it would alert us but we would have never have been anywhere near that person or their potential droplets as we don't use that carpark. What about people in flats as well? Does the app tell you where that person was and where you were at the time you had 'contact' so you're able to work out if there was a risk? Or does the app tell you if the risk is high or low?

I think it’s obvious too.

It worries me how so many on here need direct orders in order to function.The amount of arguing about the “law” and how it means you actually can shop when you want for what ever you want, was so ridiculous. Especially since the police were more advisory than enforcement. I don’t get the delight in being delibtarately obtuse.

I thought “ Stay Home” was crystal clear too.. You can’t spread or catch it at home.

If you don’t understand it, then you aren’t very bright

your country needs more Lerts but got it wrong as usual. Oh well that's different, I quite fancy be a Lert, it will be an interesting opening line when we can eventually meet people. "Hello I'm Iforsorrow, I'm a Lert." Sounds good.

Maybe it's something completely different.

Stay alert to the delightful birdsong you can now hear with fewer cars on the roads.
Stay alert to the clean air you're breathing.
Stay alert to enjoy the much emptier streets.
Stay alert to the architecture around you which you can now enjoy as you're not rushing off to and from work/meetings/school etc.
Stay alert to the quality of life you could have if you just gave up lots of other stuff.
Leave all the worrying and stressful things to us big white men and enjoy the simpler things which shall no doubt be yours when we regress to a feudal system and we rich guys get everything.