'Practice social distancing' is terrible messaging; the government needs to communicate better

'My kids’ primary school once tried to get students to practice restorative justice by telling them to ‘practice restorative justice’. Yup, that’s what they said. To five-to-12 year olds. Parents were baffled too. Only the teachers who had done a two-day workshop knew what the heck it meant. The restorative justice process itself was okay. Calling it that was the ineffective bit. Likewise, the problem with ‘practicing social distancing’ isn’t the process. It’s the language.'