When will the media tide turn

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So anyone who isn’t a complete ‘sheeple’ knows that much of the media and press is driven by what the government wants us to think and behave. Need them to stay in? Scare the living crap out of as many people as possible with day after day of deaths. Not working and young people still going out? Instantly day after day of young healthy people dying with COVID.
It’s worked it seems. Much of the UK have lapped it up and are now too scared to send kids back to school or go to work. But soon (over the next 2/3 months) kids are going to have to go back. Workers will have to return. Shops will need people back in spending money. And soon after that? Tourism will need to be restarted, flights will need to fly with people on them.
It’s going to take work from the media and government to undo the fear they have instilled.
I’m watching with interest about when the media tide turns. When will we hear of recoveries, good news stories and positive outcomes. When will this agenda be pushed?
Anyone else watching and waiting? It’s all so obvious to me and I can’t believe more people can’t see straight through it!

I agree with @NeurotrashWarrior.

Of course an awful lot of what did happen around lockdown etc was planned.

It's even possible Boris didn't go to the many cobra meetings in the run up in order not to create any panic; for example, panic buying was the main thing they needed to not happen till the last minute, stock markets etc. (Not saying I believe that but it's possible.)

We will only know a lot of the "truth" in the future when various things are released and uncovered. At the same time, with a novel virus, no one knows much about it at all (though giant hospitals being built in 10 days in China might have indicated something.)

We do apparently "know" that a dry run a few years ago showed we weren't able to cope with such an incident.

You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time’

- Abraham Lincoln

Speaking of fooling people, I love the irony that Lincoln didn't say this

Actually the economy is suffering everywhere. More so in fact in countries that didn't lockdown. Apparently Sweden's economy is doing no better and possibly worse than their Scandinavian neighbours.

I agree with NeurotrashWarrior about media owners having agendas. The owners of the telegraph for example live on a private island off Sark. Tax and Covid haven. They gamble what they can afford to lose. They face no personal risk - to life or finances - by pushing for lockdown to end without the (relatively simple) measures needed to make it safer. We face a bad second wave, tens of thousands more avoidable deaths, and worse economic disruption because they don't want to wait a mere two or three extra weeks (for measures that could and should have been implemented months ago).

Well said CrunchyCarrot.

There are plenty of scare stories on MN too though. I sometimes think if the govt told people to go jump off a cliff there would be someone on here moaning about the fact that those in the queue weren't keeping 2m apart.

Did you see @priya38’s link earlier?