Not only did the French government issue a series of wideranging, very specific directives on how to deal with the issue (something the United States has yet to do), it also began what it called a national sizing campaign.

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And if instead what you do is you indulge in, I think, a complete distraction which is sort of creating a top ten hit list of the specific directives you don't particularly like - by the way the directives that I don't particularly like - you just kind of miss the big picture.

BBC: Transcript of Nick Clegg interview

Caring Connections has specific advance directives for each state downloadable for free.

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