So Called Experts/Scientists

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AIBU to feel sick of the BBC having so-called experts and scientists on the TV and Radio giving unchallenged advice and opinions about COVID without any balance. OK, so they might have spent decade studying virology, respiratory medicine, ITU or epidemiology but where is Nigel Lawson to reprise his climate change heroics and challenge so-called experts and 'conventional' thinking with his innate expertise and the research he's done himself. He might have been a politician but he didn't let that stop him from challenging so-called experts. We need his like again. Perhaps they could talk about how, surprisingly, vinegar can cure Covid or any of the other things that the Daily Fail tend to say, coffee cures Covid. And causes it too. Or it's all the fault of vaccines?

I heard that the best way of "flattening the curve" was to sing:

Coronavirus, go away
Come again another day!

Not sure whether that was Boris or Nige.

I've been surprised at the invisibility of Gove

Maybe he finally got the ring back from Frodo.

It's astonishing, KenDodd. I met more constitutional law and administrative law experts there than I thought would have existed.

Mark Francois seems to have been a little quiet recently

Jacob Rees-Mogg is quiet as well. I expect he's too busy ignoring expert advice and using his 'common sense' to survive the virus.

I'm reminded of Stewart Lees observation that this modern "irony" now allows comedians to play two audiences simultaneously ...

Tim Martin

That's who we need
"Martin defended his right to issue public pronouncements on the best way to contain the outbreak, denying that weighing in on pandemic containment and keeping the chain’s pubs open were irresponsible.

He said: “Am I out of my depth? We’re a democracy, aren’t we? I’m obviously not an expert but I’ve got a view and that’s all I can say. People can accept it or not. Even if you’re not an epidemiologist you can look at what other countries do and weigh up what’s happened."

www.theguardian.com/business/2020/mar/20/coronavirus-wetherspoons-boss-says-uk-pubs-will-stay-open-as-long-as-possible

@ChazsBrilliantAttitude Too late.

www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/morning-viewers-outraged-nigel-farage-21679941

More likely Reese-Mogg got wiff of the pandemic early and has been busy selling off his shares or other equities before the crash took hold, like the other morally bankrupt non-experts

Hello Gove...i didnt know you were a mnetter!

Dominic Cummings - another expert

www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/mar/22/no-10-denies-claim-dominic-cummings-argued-to-let-old-people-die

Apparently herd immunity was never the approach...

"The report claimed that at one private event at the end of February, Cummings outlined then government’s strategy at the time in a way that was summarised by some present as “herd immunity, protect the economy, and if that means some pensioners die, too bad."

He denies saying that.

After the 12 March meeting, Cummings changed his view and became one of the strongest advocates in government for tough restrictions to curb the spread of the virus, the Sunday Times said. It quoted one anonymous senior Conservative as saying: “He’s gone from ‘herd immunity and let the old people die’ to ‘let’s shut down the country and the economy’.”

Perhaps Sir James Dyson could comment if he hadn’t moved his HQ to Singapore

More likely Reese-Mogg got wiff of the pandemic early and has been busy selling off his shares or other equities before the crash took hold, like the other morally bankrupt non-experts

It's happened in the US. I wonder who else took advantage of early news?

I expect Mr Martin, Mr Farage, Mr Rees-Mogg, Mr Gove, Mr Francois and Mr Lawson would all be patriotic enough to congregate in a studio and bring their analytical capabilities together for the good of the country, even if it risked their own health and well-being.

Maybe he finally got the ring back from Frodo

Best laugh I’ve had all week. Spat out my tea.

We need to bring forward the issuing of Blue passports; if that doesn't sort out this Chinese virus, nothing will.

TheNestedIf
Thank fuck I missed that. It would be a PITA to have to replace the TV now after I put my foot through it.

I'm surprised Nigel Farage isn't still too busy going round telling people that the doctors are wrong about smoking.
Oh and climate scientists are also wrong.
Nigel knows better than all of them.

I am sure Nige is happy smoking isn’t a risk factor for CV...
Oh wait a minute...

OP - if you want to read that type of stuff, why not stick with the Daily Mail?
If reading is a bit hard, go online and use accessibility tools to read it out to you..

Nigel Farage was very pleased that we were being treated as an independent country by the USA.

Until they banned UK flights as well.

He's busy attacking China now.

What's Anne Widdecombe doing?

Laurence Fox?

YABU

"I think you only need to look at the US President's almost-instant mastery of a range of subjects"
😂😂
Instant mastery ... like a 5-year-old claiming he knows it all !

MAD idea to let a bunch of anti-science nutters on the telly during an emergency pandemic

If you get ill, do you want a doctor or a witch-doctor to treat you ?

I wonder who else took advantage of early news?

I think some hedge fund just made 2 billion betting against the Airlines.

We need to bring forward the issuing of Blue passports; if that doesn't sort out this Chinese virus, nothing will

Trump's instant "mastery":

Yahoo Finance@YahooFinance

Highlight:
"You did disband the White House pandemic office... what responsibility do you take to that?"

President Trump:
"I just think it's a nasty question... You say we did that. I don't know anything about that."

Trump is a genius.
He really gets this stuff.
He has hope in a drug, a good feeling about this.
Because people need to hear positive messages.

I think he should be in charge at this time....fuck, he actually is in charge.