Chris Whitty to hold briefing tomorrow

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According to sky news, Chris Witty is to hold a briefing tomorrow and will not be joined by any members of the cabinet or Boris Johnson and won't take questions. He will apparently discuss different scenarios.

Does that sound odd to anyone else and does this maybe mean no further restrictions this week, let's just try and scare us all into being good instead?

Link: Coronavirus: 'Critical point' in pandemic as UK infection rate heading in wrong direction, says chief medical officer news.sky.com/story/coronavirus-critical-point-in-pandemic-as-uk-infection-rate-heading-in-wrong-direction-says-chief-medical-officer-12077482

Nicola sturgeon is doing a big speech prepping people for lots of restrictions but maintaining they hope they will keep schools open. This doesn’t fill me with confidence really as I don’t want my kids in a high risk place even for the benefit of their education

Unfortunately that one 15 minutes of careful explanation by experts isn’t going to be enough to override years of under education and of promotion of critical thinking amongst people who now get most of their opinions from Facebook.

@SquirrelScorn that’s sadly true

One thing that did make me smile a little during the whole bleak thing, was the door to number 10 being opened so the cat could get in. Did anyone else see it? It just made me for a moment!

People who now get most of their opinions from Facebook
Zuckerberg with his secret addictive algorithms has fucked us all over 😡

@Polkadotties

So worst case 200 people die a day from it. That is still a tiny number. 450 die a day from cancer and that is likely to go through the roof due to cancelled services

No

It won't stop when it hits 200!!

@Carrotcakeforbreakfast (I wish I could get you some abs quite agree with you re carrot cake!).
Thank you so much for all you are doing. I’m hoping that the minority are being very vocal and most people will stick to the rules.

*Government during the summer: Send your kids back to school, go shopping and pubbing.

Government now: wtf you do that for, you're all spreading covid.*

100% this! But I don't wholly blame the government. I also blame the people not able to think for themselves and weigh up the risks of 50% off a pizza vs. catching a deadly virus during a global pandemic.

@The80sweregreat

My dh said that about 200 deaths a day as it was much higher in the first wave. Nobody will believe anything I'm afraid. They just dint trust them or the government.

Remind him that if it keeps doubling every 7 days it'll only take another three weeks to hit 1600 deaths a day and beat the previous peak of 1445.

And then it keeps doubling.

@SquirrelScorn

Unfortunately that one 15 minutes of careful explanation by experts isn’t going to be enough to override years of under education and of promotion of critical thinking amongst people who now get most of their opinions from Facebook.

Yep🙄

Jesus. Some people took the presentation as meaning that worst case, 200 a day die? I think Whitty and Vallance make a concerted effort to dumb it down, but they would be staggered to realise just how much more they need to spell it out. I mean, I am not a mastermind but we're talking about a failure of very basic thinking skills here. It's actually scary.