John Priestland

UK Health Security Agency, the Department for Health.

In the US, they have FEMA, they have Health and Human Services and NIH.

Those are the organisations who have the mechanisms and the skill to do this.

We are the convener and the advocate of the importance of this.

And you talk about going on Sky News.

Well, I wish, because back to our old friend stigma, this is not something that they regard as serious.

And I wonder whether Disclosure Day will be a helpful thing or a less helpful thing.

What we're talking about here is what happens next in a Disclosure Day type scenario.

You know, no spoilers here, but your listeners will kind of get the idea that there's some sort of disclosure and it happens on a day.

So it's quite sudden.

What happens next?

Does everybody go back?

to their normal lives or their months and years of depression and anxiety and PTSD and societal disruption.

In their book, AD After Disclosure, really interesting 2012 book, pre-smartphones largely, so information would go around much more quickly.

I'm talking Bryce Sable and Richard M. Dolan's book.

They say, they give examples of why society breaks down.

Between 10% and 30% in their estimate of people will be adversely affected.

It may not be you, but your life might be very difficult because...

The lady or man who looks after your daughter in the nursery is affected and can't go and carry out those duties.

The man who drives the truck delivering your mother's insulin to the pharmacy can't drive the truck.