Behavior experts advising the British government have suggested that offering people with negative Covid-19 results wristbands would help encourage mass testing. But reaction shows not everyone would like to wear such a marker.
The unorthodox suggestion comes from the Behavioural Insights Team (BIT), a group of experts devising crafty plans on how to improve people’s compliance with government policies. The group observed a recent project in Slovakia, in which 3.6 million people aged between 10 and 65 were tested in just two days. It amounted to an astounding 97 percent of those the government wanted to test, so the BIT made a few suggestions on how this success could be replicated on British soil.
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