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post articles behind a newspaper firewall
Yep, agree with that. That shouldn’t happen again.
leak possible future strategies to individual journalists
You’re obviously aware why this happens, so not sure why you see this as an issue. It’s done in this instance to reduce shock, provide conditioning to the announcements and allow time before announcements to address any major issues that may not have been considered.
- go on TV and suggest that one of the options open to the Government is to sit tight, do little, and let folk die.
In any decision making process doing nothing is an option. In this instance they haven’t decided to do little or let folk die, nor have they gone on tv to say so. They have been honest and transparent that people will die as is the nature of the disease but have outlined a strategy for dealing with the crisis. Far better than going all comical Ali and pretending all will be well.