Re: NHSX devs apparently superior to Google devs
Even now, we have problems with official statements and interviews, press statements, media reports etc all taking about "social distancing" and keeping apart 2m but almost always shortening the statement such that the time factor is almost always excluded. Look at the pavement widening for example. Who hasn't seen examples of councils getting it wrong by closing roads or lanes to make pavements 2 or more metres wide when you are only ever likely to be walking past someone or queuing as people walk past you.
It's worse even than the shortening of Carbon Dioxide to "carbon" when talking about greenhouse gas emissions. Carbon Dioxide is a greenhouse gas. Carbon is very useful as a scrubber for cleaning other sorts of pollutant emissions. Using a short-hand can not only be confusing, it can reverse the meaning of a statement.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
