I’d agree on the bbc and have commented on it before. I’m actually very surprised by it, the two medical guys they use, fergus Walsh and the other editor guy they use seem either woefully uninformed or deliberately scare mongering.
I’ve watched them too many times basically give contradictory information to what any scientific, government advisor or nhs director has said, sometimes even giving mathematically incorrect information, or quoting “experts” that they don’t name.
A couple of nights ago I watched the editor guy saying “experts” only compare death rates. This is factually incorrect, the government, every government, and their advisors look much deeper, you only have to watch the nightly press conference to know that they use many different statistics, from cases, rate of acceleration, hospitalisations , icu cases, even transport usage, as well as data from other countries, to monitor and forecast.
Yet I watched him sit there and say it, that unnamed “experts” only use death rates so we were tracking italy. I genuinely don’t understand how the bbc is allowing these men to state factually incorrect information.
We may or may not be following Italy, but your average eleven year old can compare two death rates by date, why would we have so many professors etc working this, if that’s all they did, the analysis of an eleven year old with a basic table comparing two death rates.
As said, I can’t decide if they are woefully incompetent, or deliberately scaremongering.