Coronavirus outbreak

[matticus]

We needed more if the former and less of the latter.

Fair enough.

[I get a bit ... jaded, after hearing years of tedious bickering-style news coverage. Often I want to know what is going on, but just can't bear to switch to News at Ten, or the Today programme. I'd probably be happier and better informed just listening to Tim Harford's output these past 12 months!]

 

[mjr]

Furgus Walsh and other Health and Medical correspondents have been good in both interviews and analysis. They are no less interested in advancing their careers but that advancement comes from proper science and explaining and communicating complex science to an uninformed public.

Walsh is quite good, but I wish he wouldn't add insults of architecture and other similar unrelated things he knows little about into his reports. It distracts and undermines the messages he's trying to convey.

For Kunessburg et al advancement comes from embarrassing politicians and getting soundbites on the rolling news.

We needed more if the former and less of the latter.

Probably, but I also think a few more decent investigative political journalists would be good. One obstacle is that everyone remembers the likes of Paxman for embarrassing politicians (and some on here still idolise him for that) but not for his deconstructions of the justifications behind some brain-fart policies.

 

[roubaixtuesday]

I'd probably be happier and better informed just listening to Tim Harford's output these past 12 months!

I've spent a lot of time trying to understand COVID.

I now find Johnson unwatchable, his detachment from the reality of what's happening completely does my nut. As, to an only slightly lesser extent do the journalists completely failing to point out the obvious. Just for instance


View: https://mobile.twitter.com/Kit_Yates_Maths/status/1345842511600824323

[Kit Yates is a scientist on Independent SAGE]

 

[PK99]

Fair enough.

[I get a bit ... jaded, after hearing years of tedious bickering-style news coverage. Often I want to know what is going on, but just can't bear to switch to News at Ten, or the Today programme. I'd probably be happier and better informed just listening to Tim Harford's output these past 12 months!]

It's come as a bit of a surprise to find friends of all political persuasions who also avoid Today, PM etc citing what you term the bickering style during the past year.

There is a thirst for information and marked fatigue over the point scoring and bickering.

 

[rockyroller]

our 25? yr old nephew has it. by txt he told me he is very tired & congested. he has a blood disorder so have my fingers crossed

 

[AuroraSaab]

On a brighter note, the Mail is reporting that a £1.50 headlice drug might help covid patients and a study suggests those who have recovered have immunity for 6 months.

My OH's 92 year old uncle has just had it and recovered, despite having several underlying issues, including a need for regular blood transfusions, so hopefully your nephew will be ok. I suspect much depends on the size of the viral dose you receive when you catch it.

 

[pawl]

Just been watching Nicola Sturgeon.Avery precise and to the point Some changes to be placed into law.In due course never entered into her delivery Many changes will be enforced by law.I wonder who could take a lesson from her delivery

 

[mjr]

On a brighter note, the Mail is reporting that a £1.50 headlice drug might help covid patients and a study suggests those who have recovered have immunity for 6 months.

Do they cite a reputable source, or is "X cures covid"/"X causes covid" the next Mail health reporting fad?

Is it the same drug (Ivermectin) that last April provoked an Australian state health minister to warn people not to drink anti-lice shampoo? https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-04...r-coronavirus-drug-treatment-warning/12121578

 

[Slick]

Just been watching Nicola Sturgeon.Avery precise and to the point Some changes to be placed into law.In due course never entered into her delivery Many changes will be enforced by law.I wonder who could take a lesson from her delivery

Looks like another lockdown until at least February here. Nightmare

 

[roubaixtuesday]

Do they cite a reputable source, or is "X cures covid"/"X causes covid" the next Mail health reporting fad?

Is it the same drug (Ivermectin) that last April provoked an Australian state health minister to warn people not to drink anti-lice shampoo? https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-04...r-coronavirus-drug-treatment-warning/12121578

It's ivermectin.

Some promise, but nothing definitive.

Not relevant to current issues at all.

 

[SpokeyDokey]

Tune in at 8pm tonight for more rules that idiots can ignore (BJ announcement):

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-55534999

 

[fossyant]

Boris set to address the Nation at 8pm. Lockdown and schools closing ?

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

Clap for carers cancelled. Replaced by public executions of rule breakers live at 5 on Fridays, one from each council area.

 

[matticus]

Clap for carers cancelled. Replaced by public executions of rule breakers live at 5 on Fridays, one from each council area.

Like it.

How about something positive too? A Golden Travel Ticket Lottery - the winner gets a free pass for a single (return) trip to any part of the UK, whatever the Tiers. (or just visits a chocolate factory anywhere in the country)

 

[Electric_Andy]

I'm not sure about other primary schools in England, but my son's isn't starting back until tomorrow. I think it highly likely that schools will close again, and if they do then I hope it happens before they go back. Otherwsie, if there are days of dithering, kids will go back to school for a week, possibly picking up/spreading Covid, then will be locked down with their adult carers until Easter. it only makes sense if schools close tonight I think. But I also feel for businesses if there is another lockdown..again. But hopefully this one will be the last one, if the jabs can be administered quickly until/during Easter to the vulnerable and then the masses