"OK Dom, what do we say ?"
Small whisper from the back "Shouldn't that be times rather than plus ?"
"It's the formula, Boz, it's what we use to calculate where we are on the red-greenie thing"
"So why didn't someone just write that down ?"
"How about: And to chart our progress and to avoid going back to square one, we are establishing a new Covid Alert System run by a new Joint Biosecurity Centre. And that Covid Alert Level will be determined primarily by R and the number of coronavirus cases."
"OK, OK, next".
The just-in-time chaos of this Johnson Cabinet was clear when the video arrived with broadcasters with ten minutes to go to transmission - in analogue days, barely enough time to rewind and find a start point. On BBC1 it started with flash of the News Channel, and then a freeze frame.
They're probably still re-writing the 50-page document now.
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