Stay alert for what, exactly? Shambling zombies with half their faces missing? Most people showing symptoms are self-isolating or in hospital, and that’s after the two weeks that they’ll have spent walking around not knowing they were carrying the virus because they weren’t showing symptoms yet.
We can control the virus, but it’s a collective effort, one that only the government can co-ordinate, and this smacks of an failed government trying to pass that particular responsibility on to the public