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Wouldn& #39;t it be great if someone (me) had been tirelessly aggregating historical examples of nebulous demands for vigilance and alertness as a catch-all for health and safety? Stay alert, @readandheed
It& #39;s totally unreasonable to tell people to & #39;be alert to all hazards& #39;. It& #39;s not an instruction that it& #39;s possible to follow and responsibilises individuals in completely unreasonable ways https://twitter.com/readandheed/status/774931714368016384?s=20">https://twitter.com/readandhe...
& #39;Stay alert& #39; makes inattention or even rest into a failing https://twitter.com/readandheed/status/865538780324741123?s=20">https://twitter.com/readandhe...
Of course, this isn& #39;t anything new. Productivity culture wants to punish carelessness (and, even more, being free of care) in every possible way https://twitter.com/readandheed/status/1212752909747838976?s=20">https://twitter.com/readandhe...
& #39;Stay Alert& #39; means it& #39;s possible to allocate blame to you, with your fallible human vigilance, in case of an accident https://twitter.com/readandheed/status/1211302351874621441?s=20">https://twitter.com/readandhe...
The demand is not just that you monitor your surroundings for dangers but that you monitor yourself for inattention https://twitter.com/readandheed/status/877499593847693312?s=20">https://twitter.com/readandhe...
Btw, they& #39;ve missed a trick with the boring & #39;Stay Alert& #39; message. Here is & #39;Bea Alerte& #39;, a character from a Canadian nuclear preparedness campaign from the 1950s. Her companion was called & #39;Justin Case& #39;. https://twitter.com/readandheed/status/861561071269691393?s=20">https://twitter.com/readandhe...
Anyway, & #39;Stay Alert& #39; is a useless, empty message for this situation but definitely tells us something about a bigger cultural demand that attention should be always under your tight control https://twitter.com/readandheed/status/798168359338655744?s=20">https://twitter.com/readandhe...
Your choices are: constant vigilance or death (and death means that you obviously weren& #39;t vigilant enough) https://twitter.com/readandheed/status/805429456248520705?s=20">https://twitter.com/readandhe...
It& #39;s a fantasy that we can & #39;control the virus& #39;, but we can& #39;t actually control our attention either. & #39;Stay Alert& #39; is the & #39;Never Forget& #39; of public safety messaging: actionless, objectless, infinitely expansive https://twitter.com/readandheed/status/867717636477636608">https://twitter.com/readandhe...
