To feel frustrated with daily PM's briefing?

[InTheFamilyTree]

I'm listening now and feel increasingly frustrated with the overt avoidance of the questions put to them - will we stay in lockdown until we develop a vaccine (18 months Minimum)? How will we ramp up the number of tests to reach the target by end of April?

No effort to even answer these questions, they get more and more vague every week. I cannot lockdown for a year or two, I will be rioting before that happens!

All politicians avoid the question. That's what they do.

What pisses me off is the unoriginality of the questions the media are putting to them. They keep banging on about the same things, wanting to know when/how the lockdown will be lifted. NOBODY KNOWS ffs. It will need to be a decision based on the evidence at the time. Chucking around a dozen potential strategies would be a waste of time and just confuse people.

What? No one is saying lockdown until a vaccine jesus christ you ruin the economy for the next 50 years or more and have so many people dead from poverty.

They have said very clearly they need to be satisfied of 5 key things including new infections and deaths going down and staying down, icu having enough beds and ventilators.

Then it will be a phased return to some shops and businesses being slowly opened. You cant rush it or else we really wont get out again because we will just keep going rohnd in circles with more people dying. They made it clear it will be reviewed again in 3 weeks the same as the first time. And this time they said they see positive changes in the trend. Which is good it means lockdown is working.

Nobody is going to be in lockdown for 18 months, but there are simply no answers just yet. It's a constantly evolving situation with many variables and we just need to be patient.

The questions are annoying me far more than the answers

They're not answering because they don't know the answers.

Nobody has fully come out of lockdown yet.

I don’t see it as deliberate avoidance but more that they simply don’t know the answers. I suppose it doesn’t instill public confidence when the experts don’t know the answers so rather than saying so openly they don’t know, they are trying to explain what the current focus is and sharing what they do know.

It's clear to me and I suspect many others because they've already stated that there are 5 key requirements to be met and when they are they will look at slowly relaxing the lockdown. It will be reviewed every three weeks.

What's not clear about that?

We were foolish in not seeing what was going on elsewhere and locking down earlier. Surely now is a time to look cautiously at other countries easing their lock up restrictions and only release ours when we can see the impact of easing them in other countries. That does mean waiting longer, but I'd rather let other countries that are ahead of us try thing out than treat us as guinea pigs.

Last night the 5 indicators they were looking at were explained and wht it would be irresponsible to presume what data we will get before we have it. They cant tell us what we dont know.

Another 3 weeks and we will know more. I am expecting another 3 weeks lock down announced at the end of this block. After that I am more hopeful of news of a plan.

They keep telling us what needs to happen the press are like a bunch of toddlers but but but why why why

They say quite clearly we will come out of lockdown when the time is right and in a way that is right

Why do people keep asking the same question? Can't they understand the answer?

You don't have to watch it?

The shitty answer to carers pay was to waffle about testing. He asked about pay and SSP for low income. The reply was about testing. Didnt even vaguely match the question

@Geepipe hmm... lots of people have already died from Tory austerity. But okay.

I'm fed up with the government generally, to be honest. Matt Hancock admitted today they were "probably too slow" in dealing with the crisis which he then said would mean the UK will probably see the highest death rates in Europe.

Yeah, we know. Glad the penny has dropped though!

I think they should just do a briefing a couple of times a week now. It was helpful at the beginning but unless there’s any new guidance or information it’s just becoming a useless exercise. I don’t blame the politicians for not answering the questions, they are probably as sick of them as we are. At the end of the day, no one knows how this is going to play out. All we can do is be patient and wait and hope we can come back to some sort of new normal when it’s possible to do so.

I agree with BogRoll.Questions being repeated just worded differently. No One knows the answer to many of the questions so not able to provide answers.

They can't answer questions they don't know the answer to. I wish they'd stop the press part. It's pointless and so annoying I've started switching off.

will we stay in lockdown until we develop a vaccine (18 months Minimum)?

Maybe they are avoiding that one because it's such a stupid fucking question in the first place?

On the whole the questions are by far the most annoying part of the press conferences. Journalists trying to point score with the same unanswerable questions every day.

Personally I think they should just be doing the briefings without any questions because honestly, the journalists are just asking the same questions every day that right now no one can answer. They're more interested in their clickbait headlines.

Just a change of subject but where has Beth gone, the reporter from sky news. I've not seen her for a couple of weeks.
Even though she never pronounced her g's I like her.

I want the criteria for going to hospital queried. There's people from 30 dying at home, hours after paramedics have refused to take them. A few of the NHS staff, from 26 years old, have died that way and it isn't good enough, when we are being told that our hospitals are now coping.

We aren't getting a new hospital on Merseyside and our old one isn't fit for purpose, so i know that a lot of us, here in Liverpool want reassurances that the football isn't going to start up anytime soon, before we get clarification on hospital admission criteria. We have done well in the Northwest, deathwise, upto now.

But it's the same questions, that we know a Tory is never going to answer. Our care home scandal is nothing to them. Old WC and minimum wage workers? Totally disposable.

I'm no fan of Boris or the Tories, but why do people keep expecting the government to give answers to questions to which they don't yet know the answers?! If they make early decisions and announce action and then have to change their minds, they will be lambasted. But if they are cautious and don't give answers yet, they are equally lambasted.

No-one anywhere in the world knows how this will pan out OP. Whatever action any Government anywhere takes, large swathes of their population will disagree vehemently with the action taken.

Scientists everywhere are struggling to get to grips with this as it's a brand new virus and not enough is yet known about it.

Oh and just what do you think rioting would achieve? (except perhaps getting yourself arrested )

Throwing a hissy fit is not the response of an intelligent adult