Re:FAQs: Why we don’t have them (2013)
by toto444 on Tuesday December 07, 2021 @04:41AM
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I was of this opinion until I caught COVID and tried to understand the rules for self isolation. I am quite an edge case in this regard. I found multiple pages saying the same thing with a different ambiguous wording. Some pages even explicitly contradicting each others. It's added a lot of stress to the whole self isolation + sickness situation.
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Re:FAQs: Why we don’t have them (2013)
by nicoburns on Tuesday December 07, 2021 @04:45AM
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To be fair to the GDS team, I think it’s the policy itself rather than the presentation of it that’s confusing and self-contradictory in this case.
Re:FAQs: Why we don’t have them (2013)
by zinekeller on Tuesday December 07, 2021 @04:53AM
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Yeah, the first months were a mess. Contradictory instructions abound, even if you read all of the ordinances, you are still left unsure if you're on the right side of the law (or worse, simultaneously on the correct and wrong side of the law!)
I put that more down to inept guidance given by the government rather than the excellent work of the folks maintaining government websites.
When the government doesn't even follow it's own recommendations and different MPs offer different opinions (and even the PM giving advice that contradicts his own earlier advice!!) it doesn't exactly make the job easy for anyone who needs to document the rules.
Re:FAQs: Why we don’t have them (2013)
by avianlyric on Tuesday December 07, 2021 @07:20AM
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Says more about U.K. covid guidelines than GDS. I’m pretty certain our government has created deliberately ambiguous guidance so they can’t get called out for accidentally punishing people if fall into an extreme edge case.
Re:FAQs: Why we don’t have them (2013)
by steerablesafe on Tuesday December 07, 2021 @04:56AM
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I know you are replying about "gov.uk" being clear or not, but I would just like to add that a FAQ would probably not cover an edge case.