Was it a psychological error to choose red and green?

[NormanH]

The colour green gives the impression that everything is ok  and you can go ahead;  as at traffic lights.

But to continue the analogy  if you go forward without thinking you are likely to collide with the virus that you hadn't seen because you weren't looking.

It also gives a strange sense of superiority over the areas in red, and perhaps makes people think that it is a problem there yeah but not here

I went out this morning to collect my groceries  and there were a lot of people in The Streets around Les Halles nobody wearing masks  and several groups standing close together

I would not be at all surprised if we didn't become a root red area soon

Please remember that this virus is still out  there invisible and even in green areas you can still catch it

[alittlebitfrench]

I totally agree with you Norman.

Which is why our kids won't be going back to school and we will continue our lives for the moment like we are still on lockdown.

If stupid people want to go out and catch the virus, let them.

[cajal]

The lockdown has had one aim - to slow the spread and relieve the pressure on the health service. It isn't going to

stop people being infected and dying, that will happen sooner or later

unless a treatment or vaccine is found.

[nomoss]

[quote user="cajal"]

The lockdown has had one aim - to slow the spread and relieve the pressure on the health service. It isn't going to

stop people being infected and dying, that will happen sooner or later

unless a treatment or vaccine is found.

[/quote]

I think, maybe, more people are, slowly, beginning to get that.

But the politico's don't dare say it.

[NormanH]

That was said quite often on the discussions I watch on French TV

I think also that was  understood behind  the idea of 'flattening the curve'

[nomoss]

[quote user="NormanH"]

That was said quite often on the discussions I watch on French TV

I think also that was  understood behind  the idea of 'flattening the curve'

[/quote]

Yes, but I don't think that the politicians actually stressed that it wasn't going to

stop people being infected and dying,

[NormanH]

I see what you mean, and I think it confirms my point that it is now a mistake to speak of a 'green' department, because people will assume that things are fine..[:-))]

[NormanH]

The Sick Rose

By William Blake

O Rose thou art sick. 

The invisible worm, 

That flies in the night 

In the howling storm: 

Has found out thy bed

Of crimson joy:

And his dark secret love

Does thy life destroy.

Ok Blake probably meant VD but there is a parallel

[Lehaut]

Perhaps the R number would be more significant. R less than 1, more like 0.7 for the current green areas.

If it starts creeping up above 1 again (ie you are infecting more people) it would highlight the start of the second wave,

putting them back into red.