Tuesday 10 March 2020

Coronavirus advice 1: handwashing
















Coronavirus may dominate our next few months. As councillors we have been advised to:

1.Alert local residents to this list of key resources:
2. Update people on any changes to local services. It's likely that councils and many organisations will need to change services. If we hear of anything being changed we will let you know via this page - but don't assume we will hear so let us know if you spot something.

3. Suggest that people check in on an elderly or vulnerable person before the government recommends social distancing. This will mean that there's a plan to help them with the shopping (etc) if they need it while isolated.  (We'd add, make sure you do a good handwash before you go round so you minimise the risk of taking the virus in to them).

4. We are looking at switching from public meetings to on line meetings - and carefully following government advice about this.

HELP STOP THE FALSE INFO - DON'T REPEAT IT
* Best practice is to not repeat false information, even to debunk it. This is because our brains confuse familiarity with truth. So even hearing a lie debunked, can make us believe that the lie is true.  If you are interested in reading more about this then Nobel Prize winner Daniel Kahneman's book Thinking Fast & Slow provides many academic studies that explain this.

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