2020
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.m2098
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Managing individual and population risk from covid-19

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“…Conversely, it has also been reported that some patients initially advised to shield were later informed by text message of no longer needing to do so, fueling uncertainty on what advice to follow. The positive association with increasing age reflects widespread misunderstanding about who shielding advice applied to, with some headlines calling on the government to “set free” healthy individuals aged over 70 years [ 18 ].…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Conversely, it has also been reported that some patients initially advised to shield were later informed by text message of no longer needing to do so, fueling uncertainty on what advice to follow. The positive association with increasing age reflects widespread misunderstanding about who shielding advice applied to, with some headlines calling on the government to “set free” healthy individuals aged over 70 years [ 18 ].…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…While the use of this terminology might be dismissed as a minor semantic difference in an ocean of Covid neologisms, these words have nevertheless had a profound effect on how people have imagined and constructed their own sense of vulnerability and, in turn, self. Indeed, as Bradley et al have argued and returning to the question of agency raised earlier in this paper, “NHS correspondence that refers to people ‘being shielded’ rather than who ‘are shielding’ understates the autonomy of individuals in choosing how they wish to reduce their risk of infection” ( 2020 , p. 2). These linguistic choices also then place responsibility for the protection of those ‘being shielded’ on family, friends, the NHS, government and, often, the kindness of strangers.…”
Section: Creating Biosociality Ensuring Compliancementioning
confidence: 81%
“…This is more so because, despite now being a mainstreamed term in the UK, it has never been a commonly used public health or epidemiological term in the context of viral containment or pandemic response. Rather ‘shielding’—or more precisely the passive ‘being shielded’ that is most common in government guidance (Bradley et al 2020 )—is a political construct that cannot be considered apart from the rampant use of military metaphors by politicians and the media in talking and writing about Covid-19. As a letter to the British Medical Journal notes, “the UK shielding policy is unique internationally” (Evans 2021 ), even if it was arguably far from unique in its effectiveness.…”
Section: Creating Biosociality Ensuring Compliancementioning
confidence: 99%
“…7 Further confusion has resulted from the chaotic process of identifying children who need to shield from COVID-19. 8 In our experience, many parents have felt compelled to keep their children at home as a means of regaining control during a time of uncertainty.…”
Section: What Are the Concerns Of Parents Children And Young People?mentioning
confidence: 98%