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Major Sludgebucket (ABS)
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SAGE UK: Young People should have free access to video games
In among various other findings, the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE) have collated studies which suggest 18-29 "young" demographic should be given free access to video games to incentivize stay-at-home COVID policy compliance.
The UK government is primarily advised by SAGE for the COVID pandemic and the, often daily, televised announcements by the UK Prime Minister and his cabinet are flanked by scientific advisors who form the part of SAGE. SAGE produce large swathes of information from a wide selection of scientific sources. This information gathered goes through a clearing-house process and is condense into published papers available through the UK Government web site:
https://www.gov.uk/government/organi...or-emergencies
One such document published is the "SPI-B: Increasing adherence to COVID-19 preventative behaviours among young people" paper (
https://assets.publishing.service.go...ung_people.pdf). The paper briefly lists behavioural patterns, likely living circumstances and the demographic's general distrust of government (duh). According to the document, among the "insights" which may increase the demographic's adherence are the following:
* Mobile phone data provided free to those asked to isolate to enable social media interaction.
* Streaming and gaming services provided free to those asked to isolate.
Both very interesting but at the tax payer's expense?
* Interventions ensure that language, technology etc. are not barriers to adherence among the most disadvantaged or marginalised.
OK, now this one I can get on board with: the UK population has 10 indigenous languages and enough wildly different dialects to effectively divide some portions of society from conversing without a mutual cultural experience. Add to this pot of linguistics is the historically free migration paths of the Commonwealth countries, free migration paths of the European Union as well as the normal migration paths of the World and forced migration paths of asylum seekers which easily adds another 20+ verbal/written languages each spoken by 50,000 citizens or more. Some portions of society are confused?! Not a surprise.