So Called Experts/Scientists

[Zilla1]

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?

Yep, it's a good laugh by the OP

• but some folk do actually believe this

We need to bring forward the issuing of Blue passports

There isn't enough irony in the universe, if it were to emerge that blue passports or not, Britons ain't going nowhere for a very long time ...

More seriously, there are people who think a few hundred thousand extra deaths is worth it,
to save their stocks & shares portfolio,
or even to save their small business

• unlike the OP, they seriously are trying to get people to believe this stuff

Is one of the symptoms of this disease total loss of a sense of irony? If so, some of the posters on this thread should be worried.

Trump

THE PRESIDENT: Well, I don’t know that — “resolved.” I can say that it’s going to be distributed. I know New York is getting, I think, 10,000 units, and numerous other people. It’s really — it could be the malaria drug plus the Z-Pak.

But — and we’re going to find out. We’re going to find out. I feel — look, I feel, as the expression goes, “What do we have to lose?” Because, you know, I feel very — I feel very good about it. Tony would feel, you know, like — he’d like samples done in a certain way. And I understand that too. Many doctors agree with that. We don’t have much time. You know, we have a lot of very sick people right now in hospitals all over the place.

And speaking with the Governor of New York — Cuomo — I said, “How does it look?” He’s got a lot of sick people. So we’re going to be delivering a lot of samples to New York and other places, and we’re going to find out very shortly whether or not it’s going to work.

I feel very confident. I mean, I’ve seen things that surprise me, frankly. There are — as Tony said, there are other things we’re looking at too. Vaccine, of course, is incredible, but this is more immediate.

Right now, this, to me, would be the greatest thing that could happen. This would be a gift from Heaven. This would be a gift from God if it works. So we’re going to pray to God that it does work. It’d be a fantastic thing.

DG I'll have you know I am proudly looking at my passport - still an EU one -
and I'm planning my summer holiday .....

which will be staying in my flat

Agreed OP
I’m sick of all this biased reporting on the bbc. This morning Mike Ryan was harping on about the global pandemic and I was waiting for Caprice to come and explain that in China is was all back to normal after 2 weeks of handwashing.
But no.
He went totally unchallenged.
It’s like ‘oh yeah so you’re a world expert in pandemics with all your qualifications and experience, quoting actual scientific evidence and we’re just supposed to take your word for it?’

We had our local expert window fitter/virologist arguing that the pubs most definitely should not have been shut as they will do nothing to help stop the spread of the virus. I have no idea why the government is not yet using his expertise 🤷🏻‍♀️ What a waste of a talent.

BigChoc, I hope you're not talking about some of the tech billionaires sharing their alternative facts. The world would be a poorer place without their intelligence and contribution to society.

So what have you got against witch-doctors and astrologits, you mc elitist snowflakes ?

Chroma, they say every cloud has a silver lining. It looks like Covid is allowing the US President to profess his deeply and sincerely held faith before the November elections.

Zilla1 The "alternative facts" from billionaire oligarchs will be recognised by future generations as the pinnacle of intellectual achievement by our rightful lords and masters

Oh and my "astrologits" fits better than astrologists !

Nothing some kale and quinoa patties and some quartz crystals can’t solve.

What we all need are coffee enemas;
they cure cancer too

What we all need are coffee enemas; they cure cancer too

Not quite sure how this thread (or indeed my life) has got this far without someone magicking up the CBD pixies ..

Chazs, has Goop/the saintly Gwyneth shared any suggestions for avoiding or curing Covid while enjoying a healthy sex life and looking younger?

Also the silence of the homeopaths (much underrated movie, by the way. It only lasts a millisecond, but is a full feature film) is interesting. Where are they with their .... water ?

BigChoc, it simply won't be fair if they have to wait that long. They deserve lauding now. I still think mini-submarines should have been used to save those children in the cave, even if the sub might have been wider than the tunnel. Elon probably has another machine that could have stretched the tunnel, so to speak?

DG, I am such an idiot. I didn't even ask myself why we've not had homeopaths or any interested members of the Royal Family on the BBC along with the so-called experts.

Alternative facts?

Where is KellyAnne Conway?

I have to watch Trump. For anyone interested in body language, people bluffing, out of their depth - and watching the reaction of real experts, it's fascinating.

Fauci must hate Trump. I think he is going to crack soon in a briefing.

Chroma, don't forget though that he's been asked more nasty questions by nasty reporters than anybody else could bear. It's only because he's really special that he copes as well as he does.

Dear me! Are you a troll?

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.

Is this the line-up for this week's Question Time?

I wonder how many Americans are watching the UK Press briefings and comparing the differences?