{"id":136367,"date":"2020-03-16T14:52:48","date_gmt":"2020-03-16T13:52:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2020\/03\/16\/people-wont-get-tired-of-social-distancing-and-its-unscientific-to-suggest-otherwise-nick-chater\/"},"modified":"2020-03-16T14:52:48","modified_gmt":"2020-03-16T13:52:48","slug":"people-wont-get-tired-of-social-distancing-and-its-unscientific-to-suggest-otherwise-nick-chater","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=136367","title":{"rendered":"People won&#039;t get &#039;tired&#039; of social distancing \u2013 and it&#039;s unscientific to suggest otherwise | Nick Chater"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If people really need to stay home, they can do for months. The government\u2019s approach to coronavirus is one big gambleNick Chater was an adviser to the government\u2019s \u2018nudge unit\u2019See all our coronavirus coverageIn times of national crisis, governments need to act, advise and inform. But they also need to tell stories that allow us, as citizens, to understand government policy and, crucially, to coordinate our individual efforts towards a common goal.The story isn\u2019t just \u201cspin\u201d; it is a central component of policy. And whether it receives our support will be critical to determining whether, and how well, the policy is implemented, and whether it succeeds or fails. Winston Churchill\u2019s \u201cWe shall fight on the beaches\u201d speech that he gave in 1940 during the Battle of France perfectly encapsulated a clear narrative of collective resistance at a time of national peril. What should the story be now? Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2020\/mar\/16\/social-distancing-coronavirus-stay-home-government\" target=\"_blank\">People won&#039;t get &#039;tired&#039; of social distancing \u2013 and it&#039;s unscientific to suggest otherwise | Nick Chater<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If people really need to stay home, they can do for months. The government\u2019s approach to coronavirus is one big gambleNick Chater was an adviser to the government\u2019s \u2018nudge unit\u2019See all our coronavirus coverageIn times of national crisis, governments need to act, advise and inform. But they also need to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=136367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136367\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=136367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=136367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=136367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}