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    Welcome to Britain’s confusing plan to ease its lockdown

    Subscribe to How To Reopen, our weekly newsletter on what it takes to reboot business in the midst of a pandemic. The U.K. government was already under fire for having the highest death toll in Europe, a lackluster testing regime, a shortage of protective equipment for frontline medical staff, and its decision to build a tracing app—from scratch. Add to those waves of criticism yet another: an outcry from opposition politicians and scientists alike over Boris Johnson’s communications strategy—from leaking strategy decisions to the press before informing the leader of Scotland, to swapping the national directive from “stay home” to “stay alert.” “I don’t know what ‘stay alert’ means,” said…

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